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QueenRikku [2011-02-02 20:31:29 +0000 UTC]
YES!! Kiyo Kyujo is AMAZING
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Sephirayne [2010-09-29 02:31:59 +0000 UTC]
Sonia,,,,,, I heart you!!!
There are so many here I love. I love that you have all three TB artists there and Amano there. Not surprised by Clamp. I knew that you are a fan of they're work.
Having seen the other artists do this I'm tempted to give this a go (not that I have a book fair or anything, just curious if anyone would be surprised by the result XD).
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sonialeong In reply to Sephirayne [2010-10-27 18:45:00 +0000 UTC]
Haha, yup, I've just fallen in love with all the various artists involved with toribura, they're all so so good at what they do, I want to get to sense of elegance and epicness into my work more often
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Sephirayne In reply to sonialeong [2010-11-18 08:59:18 +0000 UTC]
Same here. They are all amazing artists. They are my main influence at the moment. I hope to have a sense of epicness with mine. My work can be quite gothic and I love the Toribura art because its the style I want to do.
I think your work is amazing as it is. Going a bit epic would be awesome though xx
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Captain-Advantage [2010-09-27 21:37:54 +0000 UTC]
Thats cool, I recognised quite a few here and i see where your coming from. If I did'nt know already I would have guessed you were a clamp fan, I'm really fond of clamp myself (All that watching Cardcaptors when it was on UK TV years back lol) Its an interesting combination and quite a varied contrast in the styles, also in that some of its music related, nice to get a feel for what motivates you ^^
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sonialeong In reply to Naoru [2010-09-27 09:39:30 +0000 UTC]
Yup, L'Arc's music is quite changeable and varied on the surface, but it's always very refined, dramatic, polished with lovely lyrics, mellow lead guitar and virtuoso bass lines. In a funny sort of way, I try to translate their sound into lines, facial expressions.
Leighton's romantic images of beautiful women and acts of chivalry are gorgeous and when I draw full page spreads or standalones of virtuous or innocent girls, or said girls being protected I can't help but think of his work.
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SuperJohnnyCook [2010-09-24 19:59:04 +0000 UTC]
Nice. I like 12 and 7 the best.
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SuperJohnnyCook In reply to sonialeong [2010-09-25 01:13:05 +0000 UTC]
What? I meant the the other band who play the song for Fullmetal Alchemist.
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sonialeong In reply to SuperJohnnyCook [2010-09-27 09:29:01 +0000 UTC]
Laruku = homophone for L'Arc or L'Arc~en~Ciel
Sorry, longtime fans of the band automatically refer to them as Laruku for short/cuteness
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SuperJohnnyCook In reply to sonialeong [2010-09-28 01:18:56 +0000 UTC]
Sorry. I didn't know. Their songs are ok. I only hear the songs for Fullmetal Alchemist and Gundam 00.
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irinarichards [2010-09-24 19:35:29 +0000 UTC]
So cool - I could always see a CLAMP influence in your art, it was interesting to find out about other influences, too!
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Destinys-spirits [2010-09-24 19:01:45 +0000 UTC]
I liked how you ordered it in a spiral XD
Some really lovely inspirations there! It was interesting to see : D
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sonialeong In reply to Destinys-spirits [2010-09-25 00:39:51 +0000 UTC]
It was the only viable way for me to number mine as I was all about spreading it out and using relative size to match importance XD Glad you found it fun!
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jopyon [2010-09-24 18:21:59 +0000 UTC]
>.< Being forced into doing something only makes me do shoddy work...
How come you're so good
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sonialeong In reply to jopyon [2010-09-25 00:34:54 +0000 UTC]
Haha, the problem was that I didn't really have the time to do this, but once I start something I have to do it well XD
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monkeynohito [2010-09-24 18:07:50 +0000 UTC]
For what it's worth, I'm interested in the couple artists I'm not familiar with here. A lot of these lists I've bothered to check are half Kingdom Hearts and whatever flavour of the week, but you've created a nice personal canon of influence here.
Oh! Great seems a little out-of-place considering everything else though, haha.
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sonialeong In reply to monkeynohito [2010-09-25 00:30:50 +0000 UTC]
Ah, I love his ecchi/sexy fighting women and fight scenes - the rare occasions I get to do proper battle poses he is the first person I look at for inspiration. Him and Rando Ayamine (GetBackers), Yukito Kishiro (Battle Angel Alita), Masamune Shirow (GITS). But true, that's the main thing about his work I like, it's not a heavy influence, hence why he only gets one square XD
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monkeynohito In reply to sonialeong [2010-09-25 08:40:02 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, I really like the art in Air Gear, especially how he works all the graph design into effects and everything. It can be pretty rough to actually read though, haha.
I wish there were more series with chicks just plain kicking ass like back in the nineties, but everything now has to be swimming in ecchi with a twist of blatant misogyny here and there, so I get sick of a lot of those newer series. I'm no prude by any stretch, but a lot of it's just so much more aggressive than it used to be. Air Gear and...what is it...Ikki Tousen/Battle Vixens, I pick those up, thinking they'll be good action reads and find shit like rape just casually sprinkled around and a lot of the time it's for humour value; it's ridiculous.
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monkeynohito In reply to sonialeong [2010-09-27 10:40:08 +0000 UTC]
Oh yeah, I really like Gunsmith Cats too. I dig older ecchi stuff, a lot of the newer series have some seriously degrading undercurrents. It gets old seeing books pandering to people who'd rather have their personal issues massaged than be read a solid piece of entertainment.
Your mentioning the mix of newer and older series along those lines just got me thinking of the difference between the two eras, I'm getting old. Sorry to babble about it.
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cloflo217 [2010-09-24 17:56:28 +0000 UTC]
Evanescence, YAY!! One of my biggest inspirations.
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cloflo217 In reply to sonialeong [2010-09-25 10:00:57 +0000 UTC]
LOL, I can't help it, such a big fan!! 8D XD
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Chocolate-milllk [2010-09-24 17:52:51 +0000 UTC]
Kiyo Kyujo is one of my favourite artists too. Her art is so pretty, it influenced my crappy art too ^^
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sonialeong In reply to Chocolate-milllk [2010-09-25 00:27:23 +0000 UTC]
She is AWESOME sauce. The emotions and tone work are gorgeous, and something I added a lot more in my work over the past two years
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