[survey] Your Art, Your Specs. Let's get this started.

[Tiffa]

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Name: Lina, Tiffa Lei, Tiffany L. Nours

Style: Purist anime/game/manga, classic fantasy realism, anthro, creatures etc. Also photo realism and cartoon of any style.

Inspired by: Everything. Some stages included Sonic the Hedgehog, Sailor Moon, Tenchi, Slayers. Currently acquiring inspiration from EVERYTHING I see as well as focusing on Atsuko Ishida (anime), Kohime Ohse (game) and Arina Tanemura (manga). Alphonse Mucha.

Materials: 0.5 pr 0.3mm mech pencil, blue/red/green/purple col-erase pencil, deleter free pen (equipped with G-pen nibs), black cat #1 ink, regular printer paper, animation paper, 80lb A4 manga paper, ballpoint pen, 0.5-0.8mm copic pens. Inked using animation disk & table. Also use watercolor, acrylic, gauche & prismacolor pencils. Canon A70 for digital photography.

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator (getting to learn vectors), Open Canvas, Paint Shop Pro. Most commonly used are Photoshop & Open Canvas.

Galleries:
KAGE Productions
Deviant Art
Elfwood
Epilogue

[Fiona C]

Name: Fiona
Style: Manga, cartoony, and attempts at making it more life-like
Inspired by: Clamp, Takeuchi Naoko, and you guys here at VACU (where trying to get better and improve upon life-like-ness is concerned) XD

Materials: HB pencil, whatever paper I can get my hands on, usually lined, though, since it helps me with my proportions, and a black pen. Scanner to scan in. >D

Software: Adobe Photoshop to edit and re-size before uploading. Canon ScanGear Toolbox to Scan the work in.

[Katie]

Name: Katie George

Style: Anime, mostly. Sometimes with a more western-comic look. Sometimes just plain realism. Depends on what I'm drawing.

Inspired by: Masashi Kishimoto, CLAMP, Yoshihiro Togashi (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Materials: 0.7mm lead Mechanical Pencils (ghetto, I know.), Aiptek tablet (getting a Wacom soon =3), .01 Sakura Micron pen, set of Zig scrapbook pens (.005, .01, .03, .05, and .08 ), printer paper.

Software: Adobe Photoshop 6.0, OpenCanvas 1.1, trying to learn Painter 7... too haaaard...

[Aelf]

Name: Claire E. Sears or Aelf

Style: It all can be a bit eclectic at times. Painting - Semi-abstract (mostly my paintings have lights, people, buildings and stuff like that in them) and illustration/comics - sort of anime/manga style (I like doing exaggerated perspectives with these).

Inspired by: General anime/manga, Yoshitaka Amano, Brom, Alan Lee, Arthur Rackham, Hiroshige, William de Kooning, Sean Scully, Erte and Tamara de Lempkica, and anything that contemporary artists do.

Materials: HB, 2B, 4B pencils; 0.1, 0.5, brush, pen, Indian ink; and lots of mixed media - watercolour, gouache, acrylic paints; oil pastels, paints and bars; soft and hard pastels, crayons/coloured pencils. I work on all types of surfaces too from sketchbook to canvas to digital. I like making a mess!

Software: Paint Shop Pro 7, and trying to learn Photoshop now.

[TamTu]

Name: TamTu Bui
Style: Anime, mostly. Sometimes with a more western-comic look. Sometimes just plain realism. Depends on what I'm drawing.
Inspired by: Masashi Kishimoto,

Materials: 0.7mm lead Mechanical Pencils (ghetto, I know.), Aiptek tablet (getting a Wacom soon =3), .01 Sakura Micron pen, set of Zig scrapbook pens (.005, .01, .03, .05, and .0, printer paper.

Software: Adobe Photoshop 6.0, OpenCanvas 1.1, trying to learn Painter 7... too haaaard...

YOU STOLE MY NAME :O

[Jing]

Name: Jing
Style: Manga-ish (blended with some American arts)
Inspired by: Tite Kubo, Osamu Tezuka,Yasuhiro Nightow.

Materials: #2 (soft) and 0.7 mechanical pencils, cheap printer paper (or any I can find), various Impressions sketch diaries, fine black inked Sanford pens.

Software: Paint, Dell Photo Editor (these suck so I never really edit art)

[Tsubasa-no-kami]

Name: Annie, Anii, 'Lena-san, Anniechiii, Annabelle, Tsu, & HEY YOU!

Style: funky, quirky, chibis, girly, random, doodly, shiny, glowing, sketchy, ever changing and ever learning anime inspired

Inspired by: various japanese & korean manga-kas, as well as my friends and every day experience.

Materials: paper, pencils, sakura pens, rice paper, bristol board, india ink, stamps, white ink, wierd nibs, tones, watercolor, prismacolor and crayola colored pencils, copic markerz, evil posessed scanner, LOTS OF ERASERS, & imagination

Software: Wacom Tablet, Shii Painter (p-chat), Oekaki (BBs), Adobe Photoshop, Open Canvas, Paint Shop Pro & Comic Works

[hideko_dahlia]

Name: hideko / Kaylene

Style: Um... Depends on my mood-- I do everything from photomanip to anime/manga to realism to... other stuff. I like flowy lines, though.

Inspiration: Friends, fellow art students at my school, Yoshitaka Amano, various anime/manga artists, Bottecelli, DaVinci, Raphael, ... others...

Material: Sketchbook, pencils, hotel pens (they have to be from a hotel!), normal pens, Prismacolor markers, Crayola anything, found objects... And my spiffy camera. Oh, and I love scratchboards.

Software: Photoshop LE (currently, but I want to update it...), Painter 6, Paint, Illustrator, oekaki, Aiptek tablet (9x12)...

[misu]

Name: Misu

Style: Its all about chibis ^^\/ but when I feel like it I'll draw something more shoujo like.

Inspired by: Akira Toriyama, Megumi Tachikawa, Yutsuko Chusonji & Akihito Yoshida

Materials: Sakura Micron Markers, can't work without them O_O. mechanical and regular pencils and prisma markers,

Software: Corel

[Aeris_angel_21]

Name: Aeris
Style: Manga/Anime style
Inspired by: My sister & Satoshi Kon.

Materials: Pencils, Xerox paper, unruled writing tablets, and colored pencils.

Software: Adobe Photoshop and MS paint.