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Everyone else was doing it, so damnit, I stayed up till 1:30 finishing the damn thing...

So, uh...influences are as follows...

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll): Not necessarily my namesake (I was named after my great grandmother, fyi) but Lewis Carroll's eccentric, brightly colored and over the top acid trip on steroids has definitely had an impact on me, and on my art.

Ghost in the Shell (Masamune Shirow): One of the true masterpieces of the modern animated age, GITS hooked me at the first episode and kept me captivated through both Anime Arcs, and all three movies. It was in this series that I was first introduced to world weary characters; people who had suffered and struggled, yet continued to toil on.

Bleach (Tite Kubo): (Manga only) Mostly I return to this series for design and aesthetics. Face structure, spacing, timing, body proportions, motion, action/fight scenes, hands/feet, and a lot of detail oriented work is references from this manga.

Hayao Miyazaki: What the hell kind of anime/manga artist would I be if I didn't include this man? Miyazaki has proved time and time again that he is a genius, with stunningly beautiful art, complex characters, breathtaking scenery, and captivating plots. I reference his movies (mostly Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, and Spirited Away.) for movement and animation tips (how characters move, etc.).

Eyeshield 21 (Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata): The ONLY reason I ever had any interest whatsoever in football comes from this manga (mostly because of Hiruma lol), and it's because of it that I know all of the rules, as well. Mostly used for motion studies.

TMNT (Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird): My first true love of animation. Before manga, before anime, heck, this was the reason I became interested in Saturday morning cartoons in the first place. The green team was the center of my freaking universe before I'd even wrapped my head around the concept of art as a career. I doodled them in my notebooks, on my homework, in the margins of books, hell, I even doodled a picture of Raph during my Sex Ed class when I was 15. Suffice it to say that I still come back to the series...continuously. Do I have a favorite? Oh, hells yes!

Eyes: The only thing I'm really good at drawing, because I've been doing it since the day I was old enough to hold a crayon and smash it to construction paper. Some say that the eyes are the windows to the soul...perhaps that's why I enjoy drawing them so much, but I don't really know. There's just something about eyes that interests me and draw me in, literally.

Dragons/YinYang: A potential toss-up became an eventual mash-up. I love dragons, their power, energy, and symbolism. That, coupled with the perfect balance and harmony of the Yin-Yang symbol is something that, for me, is very powerful and influencial.

Well, I think I've bored you all long enough with this...

Original is here: [link]

Description
Everyone else was doing it, so damnit, I stayed up till 1:30 finishing the damn thing...

So, uh...influences are as follows...

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll): Not necessarily my namesake (I was named after my great grandmother, fyi) but Lewis Carroll's eccentric, brightly colored and over the top acid trip on steroids has definitely had an impact on me, and on my art.

Ghost in the Shell (Masamune Shirow): One of the true masterpieces of the modern animated age, GITS hooked me at the first episode and kept me captivated through both Anime Arcs, and all three movies. It was in this series that I was first introduced to world weary characters; people who had suffered and struggled, yet continued to toil on.

Bleach (Tite Kubo): (Manga only) Mostly I return to this series for design and aesthetics. Face structure, spacing, timing, body proportions, motion, action/fight scenes, hands/feet, and a lot of detail oriented work is references from this manga.

Hayao Miyazaki: What the hell kind of anime/manga artist would I be if I didn't include this man? Miyazaki has proved time and time again that he is a genius, with stunningly beautiful art, complex characters, breathtaking scenery, and captivating plots. I reference his movies (mostly Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, and Spirited Away.) for movement and animation tips (how characters move, etc.).

Eyeshield 21 (Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata): The ONLY reason I ever had any interest whatsoever in football comes from this manga (mostly because of Hiruma lol), and it's because of it that I know all of the rules, as well. Mostly used for motion studies.

TMNT (Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird): My first true love of animation. Before manga, before anime, heck, this was the reason I became interested in Saturday morning cartoons in the first place. The green team was the center of my freaking universe before I'd even wrapped my head around the concept of art as a career. I doodled them in my notebooks, on my homework, in the margins of books, hell, I even doodled a picture of Raph during my Sex Ed class when I was 15. Suffice it to say that I still come back to the series...continuously. Do I have a favorite? Oh, hells yes!

Eyes: The only thing I'm really good at drawing, because I've been doing it since the day I was old enough to hold a crayon and smash it to construction paper. Some say that the eyes are the windows to the soul...perhaps that's why I enjoy drawing them so much, but I don't really know. There's just something about eyes that interests me and draw me in, literally.

Dragons/YinYang: A potential toss-up became an eventual mash-up. I love dragons, their power, energy, and symbolism. That, coupled with the perfect balance and harmony of the Yin-Yang symbol is something that, for me, is very powerful and influencial.

Well, I think I've bored you all long enough with this...

Original is here: [link]