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Published: 2010-09-25 03:15:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 3266; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 0
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Description Why yes, I am completely aware that I'm tardy to the party like...massively, but this was honestly really difficult for me to do since so many things have been such a big part of my life and how I am now as a person, and an artist. This Artist's Comments box will become tl;dr with reasoning behind everything on here. Again, the size of the image is the amount of influence each thing has had on my life.

Mary Poppins - Mary's become more of a recent influence, honestly...and it's really just sort of the face pictured. She's beautiful, kind, polite, and not afraid to put someone in their place when necessary. I suppose you can say she's been a bit of a muse for me lately, because she's helped fuel my motivation to draw and such. And, to end this, I love her.

Danny Elfman - The man I always go to when I need inspiration. Most know Danny as the guy who scores almost all of Tim Burton's films, but he's much more than that. He's a genius composer. He was also lead singer of the ever-awesome Oingo Boingo.

Marc Davis - Oh this man...creator of some of the greatest things in the world. Maleficent, Aurora, Alice, Tinkerbell...all drawn by him. Not to mention he did all of the concept artwork for Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, and some artwork for the Jungle Cruise. Marc Davis is an incredibly awesome dude.

John and Hank Green - The founders of Nerdfighteria. John and Hank are the driving force of my strive to be awesome. They are everything that is good about the world, and if some of you are confused as two who these random nerdy-looking guys are, here, educate yourselves .

Walt Disney - ...do I even need to explain this one? XD

CLAMP - MASSIVE INFLUENCE ON MY ART STYLE FOR YEARS. They still are. I will willingly admit that a lot of their stories are stupid as hell, but DAMN I love their artwork. A lot of my costume designs are heavily influenced by these crazy ladies, too.

Brianna Garcia - aka `bri-chan . I am so amazingly lucky to call this girl my friend. She is brilliant. Thanks to her I've met some of the greatest people in the world. She's extremely talented, and really nice, and she's honestly inspiring. Love you, Bri

Sailor Moon/Naoko Takeuchi - Ok, who here draws that *wasn't* inspired by Sailor Moon at some point in their life? They're all supermodel-sized and beautiful. The story is ridiculous, but damn it's nice to look at.

Legend of Mana - My first RPG. Still influential on my costume and character design, and how I write characters. It's a highly unknown and underrated game. Anyone who likes RPGs should give it a shot, imo.

Peter Pan and Wendy - Like Mary Poppins, it's particularly the two faces pictured. Peter always has ideas when I'm stuck for something to draw. Naturally, they're all about him, but they're super fun ideas, so it's hard not to do what he says. And, Wendy's such a sweetie, and so funny, especially when she's criticizing Peter's ideas...and just criticizing Peter in general XD

Jim Henson - So much love for this guy. Jim and Walt(Disney) are my childhood. I grew up on The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock, and as I've grown up I've learned to love some of his other works like Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and more recently, The Storyteller. These things have helped fuel my love for all things Fantasy.

Mark Thorne - aka *Choco-Kun . Another person I'm lucky to call friend. Mark is so wonderful. He helps push me to draw more, and post more things here on deviantArt, which is good for me because I'm a lazy butthole. Also, his art is adorable, and he inspires me to draw more cute things XP

Mel Brooks - Besides Jesus, this man is the greatest Jew on earth. He's hilarious and awesome. He reminds me that life is too short to take it too seriously. I mean, the guy actually fought in WWII, and now he makes tons of money making fun of Hitler. That's a pretty awesome view on life.

Kingdom Hearts - Ah, last, but definitely not least. Another influence on how I design clothes, and part of the gateway that got me back into being a giant Disney freak. Also another influence on how I write characters...not the best influence, I know, but it can't be helped >.<

Thanks for sticking around for that very long amount of babbling. Later Days~
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Comments: 14

SaveKenny [2010-10-26 05:57:07 +0000 UTC]

Nerdfighters FTW!!

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iamfergie [2010-10-19 23:24:04 +0000 UTC]

Nice to see that you've got Danny Elfman up there. He is so many kinds of awesome.

Also, YAY JIM HENSON! I adore that man. And I love that you mentioned "The Storyteller".

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iwannasammich [2010-09-29 20:43:28 +0000 UTC]

effYESnerdfighters!

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popcornered [2010-09-27 07:34:10 +0000 UTC]

Can I be up there on that list of awesome Jews? XD There aren't too many of us!!

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SkeletonStockings In reply to popcornered [2010-09-27 08:41:53 +0000 UTC]

Oh yus, you're definitely on my list

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MOMOstrawberries [2010-09-25 22:36:53 +0000 UTC]

NO you don't even need to explain Walt Disney because he was FUCKING AMAZING! I LOVE YOU MAN!!!!!

Finally someone understands! QwQ

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georgemiser [2010-09-25 12:22:58 +0000 UTC]

I love the characters in Kingdom Hearts. It helps that i'm at least one year older than Sora.

And as for mel? Well, the producers was great, as was spaceballs & blazing saddles. I hear silent movie and Dracula dead and loving it are rather good too. X) Mel really needs to get round to turning At least one of them (Counting out the 1st as it's been done.) into a musical.

And lastly, Peter Pan. Boy did THAT kid make childhood great for me or what? I remember getting a vhs copy of the movie while at blockbusters as a kid. Peter was one of my 1st childhood heros and he paved the way for more. Peopke who i shall not mention *COUGH*blackbustercritic*COUGH* act like enjoying stuff from your childhood is sick and abnormal. Well if it is, it's worth it! I still enjoy the disney classics and i always will.

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RamblinQuixotic [2010-09-25 03:31:57 +0000 UTC]

SOOOOOO many of our influences match up...from the Disney artists to the characters in the park, to the DA artists, and even the same games. It's uncanny!

I would LOVE to meet up with you and Mark at the parks one day and just sketch characters all day. I think that would be amazingly fun.

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SkeletonStockings In reply to RamblinQuixotic [2010-09-25 20:50:19 +0000 UTC]

Oooh, that does sound like fun. Perhaps such an event should be organized.

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RamblinQuixotic In reply to SkeletonStockings [2010-09-25 23:07:23 +0000 UTC]

What are the best days of the week for you to go?

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SkeletonStockings In reply to RamblinQuixotic [2010-09-26 09:27:40 +0000 UTC]

Saturdays and Sundays. Mostly Sundays, though.

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RamblinQuixotic In reply to SkeletonStockings [2010-09-27 00:53:07 +0000 UTC]

Hmmmm...I usually work Sats and Suns from 3pm til 11pm but I would be very down to meet up when the park opened til then or something like that.

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DomainofPrey [2010-09-25 03:29:21 +0000 UTC]

OMG,
This is awesome.
I love Disney yes, they influence alot of my art too, but so does Clamp.
I didn't think that anyone else knew of them.
That made my night

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FluffySora [2010-09-25 03:24:58 +0000 UTC]

Wow I love this so much . They're all such great influences. <3

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