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Here is my influence map made definitely from scratch, but the pastel colored star background is remade and derived from my favorite Eurasia GBA cracktro. These are influences helping how I get my original art design.

From Top Left to Bottom Right

1. Pop'n Music
My number one favorite music game I've ever played, one of Konami’s successful series in Japan. the characters are marvelously cute and it ironly inspires my art style. Not to mention, the animation is amazingly adorably fantastic and it makes me a desire to end up to be a cartoonist. Like I said, I'd love this style.

2. Puyo Puyo (Signature character designers: Hideyuki Takenami and Shoko Ninomiya)
One of my favorite puzzle game since I've started to play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine when I was young. Likely, Puyo Puyo characters are gloriously adorable and Post-Fever era designs are preferable to inspire my art style especially pretty colorful eyes.

3. Mr. Driller
It's quirky artstyle of this Namco game reminds me of The Powerpuff Girls and its so inspiring. Plus, these colorful backgrounds inspires me.

4. DJ Max
I had a great experience of playing this korean music game with miraculous animations that inspires me and sports little details and stylish art styles made by various korean visual artists such as For Seasons, Running Girl, Streetlight, Bye Bye Love and Ladymade Stars. One of DJ Max visual artists I've been truly influenced happens to be Tari, the best known for Ya! Party, Long Vacation and Bright Dream. His animated designs are so adorably cute and amazingly splendid and makes me started to draw pretty style of cartoon eyes with pie pupils like Pac-Man especially in oval opening.

5. Maple Story
My number one favorite online PC game I have ever played back when I was young. I'd love how characters, jobs and environments inspires my art syle, especially some cute looking monsters.

6. LocoRoco
I played this game on my cousin's PSP back when I was young. The characters are so cute but some has pretty silly faces and looks a bit more like Sesame Street Muppets, as well as pretty sweet environments and they're so inspiring for me. Noi! Noi! Noi!

7. Sunsoft (Sanrio-ish Cutie Classics)
The art style of various characters draws much like a fusion between Kirby and Hello Kitty. There were great games that looked cute to fond like Hebereke / Ufouria The Saga, Trip World and of course, Mr. Gimmick. Plus, the squishes and stretches for characters in one of Sunsoft's obscure fighting games Astra Superstars, could be one of them as well, my way.

8. Rodney Alan Greenblat (PaRappa The Rapper)
I actually remembered playing Clickamajigs from Nick website when I was young and Road Skunk is the one of my favorite, as well as PaRappa The Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy PS1 games. They're really cool how these characters can do some music because they're one of successful music games. These musical characters inspires me and this is what Pop'n Music art style reminds me, but to me, PaRappa has decreased my love interest to Pop’n Music because of dozens of Pop’n cuties with more great cuteness.

9. Kirby
One of my first childhood Nintendo game franchise since Smash 64 and Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland when I was little. The characters are fabulously adorable and cute to influence me as well as tasty environments and star-marked things too.

10. The Legendary Starfy
I associate these art style of miraculous inspiring adorable marine life characters from my favorite game.
Talking of cartoon marine life, It's my favorite kind I'd like to stick with alongside Aquarium creatures
from MapleStory.

11. Gunbound
These fascinating mechanical mobs from my favorite childhood PC game inspires me.

12. Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls)
I've started to watch the ever so popular Powerpuff Girls when I was young, alongside Foster's Home and Dexter's Lab which McCracken worked on as an art director. The characters in the show looked cute and has echo outlines first but the most adorable part of the show is the Powerpuff Girls which ended up inspiring me. In fact, most people identify my art style like the influences I mentioned, but some people consider it "Powerpuff Girlish," especially my aunt who considered my drawings looked like "a style of cartoon network shows from the 1990s to early 2000s." More likely I considered the art style also known as "the late Hanna-Barbera-era style from the 90s" or "The early Cartoon Cartoon style" as well as the initials "HB-CC" or "LHB." Aka "Hanna-Barbanime".

13. Classic Cartoons
I grew up with them on TV, mostly Tom and Jerry, when I was young. There are lots of funny gags that inspires me from many series that I've been hooked on, such as Looney Tunes, MGM Cartoons (Droopy and Tex Avery friends), H-B era Scooby Doo, Popeye, Walter Lantz (Chilly Willy is my favorite), Classic Disney, Famous Studios (Harveytoons), and Underdog, Terrytoons, Color Rhapsodies (especially Scrappy), etc. Like I said, I prefer the classics over the new respected modern ones since some new shows went THAT BAD with ridiculous memes and lack of art styles, the CalArts styled bean heads. And in case many Disney franchises are popular, my favorite franchise is Winnie The Pooh since Many and New Adventures of Pooh.

14. Pingu
One of my favorite clay animation show that influence my clay art style. It is still as cute as Kirby's.
Talking of which, it is considerably Play-doh which I used to build something back in 1st grade.

15. Retro Anime Classics
Alongside enjoying seeing variety of anime clips on YouTube since Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and Hamtaro, I'd really enjoyed watching timeless variety of retro anime from 1980s to 1990s. There were lots more to find to watch on Retro Crush like Cardcaptor Sakura, Bubblegum Crisis, Blue Seed, Kaiba (A 2008 Anime), Robot Carnival and Project A-ko. The comedic scenes in some anime classics are much funnier and expressive compared to modern anime and the most things I like about retro anime are hilarious expressions that reminds me of classic Puyo Puyo and adorable art style assortments of 90s mahou shoujo. my favorites are Akazukin ChaCha (Min Ayahana) and 1994 TwinBee Paradise OVA. Because in this TwinBee OVA, its character design is an animator and game designer who worked on the TwinBee game series I grew up playing, Shujirō "SHUZILOW.HA" Hamakawa. Like I said, This is the most part of anime inspiring me.

16. Mamori Yoshinoya (Twinkle Star Sprites series)
It seems like the art style of the japan-only sequel of my favorite NEO-GEO shmup is much like Post-Fever era Puyo Puyo because of an exact anatomy, especially shapes of bodies and faces of the characters, as well as Pop'n Music 7-9 because of UI graphics when it came out and the artist changed her character art style after Twinkle Star Sprites and ADK World. So like I said, I'd like how Twinkle Star Sprites series inspires my art style, especially first and the sequel artstyles.

17. Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Ojamajo Doremi and Heartcatch PreCure)
Same as Yoshimoyas' and Post-Fever era Puyo Puyo series but the most part of the art style is to draw cute banana-fingered round-shaped hands for cute characters that way, as well as occasionally pretty witch clothes.

18. Neopets
When I used to play at this website when I was very young, some various creatures are as cute as what you've seen here in the influence map such as Kacheeks, Chias, and Hasees.

19. Pokemon
My childhood video game and anime series. Cute characters inspires me as well and Gen 3 (RSE) is my favorite.

20. Blues Clues Traci Paige Johnson
The way I draw eyes on characters looks like inspiration of my childhood show.

Description
Here is my influence map made definitely from scratch, but the pastel colored star background is remade and derived from my favorite Eurasia GBA cracktro. These are influences helping how I get my original art design.

From Top Left to Bottom Right

1. Pop'n Music
My number one favorite music game I've ever played, one of Konami’s successful series in Japan. the characters are marvelously cute and it ironly inspires my art style. Not to mention, the animation is amazingly adorably fantastic and it makes me a desire to end up to be a cartoonist. Like I said, I'd love this style.

2. Puyo Puyo (Signature character designers: Hideyuki Takenami and Shoko Ninomiya)
One of my favorite puzzle game since I've started to play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine when I was young. Likely, Puyo Puyo characters are gloriously adorable and Post-Fever era designs are preferable to inspire my art style especially pretty colorful eyes.

3. Mr. Driller
It's quirky artstyle of this Namco game reminds me of The Powerpuff Girls and its so inspiring. Plus, these colorful backgrounds inspires me.

4. DJ Max
I had a great experience of playing this korean music game with miraculous animations that inspires me and sports little details and stylish art styles made by various korean visual artists such as For Seasons, Running Girl, Streetlight, Bye Bye Love and Ladymade Stars. One of DJ Max visual artists I've been truly influenced happens to be Tari, the best known for Ya! Party, Long Vacation and Bright Dream. His animated designs are so adorably cute and amazingly splendid and makes me started to draw pretty style of cartoon eyes with pie pupils like Pac-Man especially in oval opening.

5. Maple Story
My number one favorite online PC game I have ever played back when I was young. I'd love how characters, jobs and environments inspires my art syle, especially some cute looking monsters.

6. LocoRoco
I played this game on my cousin's PSP back when I was young. The characters are so cute but some has pretty silly faces and looks a bit more like Sesame Street Muppets, as well as pretty sweet environments and they're so inspiring for me. Noi! Noi! Noi!

7. Sunsoft (Sanrio-ish Cutie Classics)
The art style of various characters draws much like a fusion between Kirby and Hello Kitty. There were great games that looked cute to fond like Hebereke / Ufouria The Saga, Trip World and of course, Mr. Gimmick. Plus, the squishes and stretches for characters in one of Sunsoft's obscure fighting games Astra Superstars, could be one of them as well, my way.

8. Rodney Alan Greenblat (PaRappa The Rapper)
I actually remembered playing Clickamajigs from Nick website when I was young and Road Skunk is the one of my favorite, as well as PaRappa The Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy PS1 games. They're really cool how these characters can do some music because they're one of successful music games. These musical characters inspires me and this is what Pop'n Music art style reminds me, but to me, PaRappa has decreased my love interest to Pop’n Music because of dozens of Pop’n cuties with more great cuteness.

9. Kirby
One of my first childhood Nintendo game franchise since Smash 64 and Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland when I was little. The characters are fabulously adorable and cute to influence me as well as tasty environments and star-marked things too.

10. The Legendary Starfy
I associate these art style of miraculous inspiring adorable marine life characters from my favorite game.
Talking of cartoon marine life, It's my favorite kind I'd like to stick with alongside Aquarium creatures
from MapleStory.

11. Gunbound
These fascinating mechanical mobs from my favorite childhood PC game inspires me.

12. Craig McCracken (Powerpuff Girls)
I've started to watch the ever so popular Powerpuff Girls when I was young, alongside Foster's Home and Dexter's Lab which McCracken worked on as an art director. The characters in the show looked cute and has echo outlines first but the most adorable part of the show is the Powerpuff Girls which ended up inspiring me. In fact, most people identify my art style like the influences I mentioned, but some people consider it "Powerpuff Girlish," especially my aunt who considered my drawings looked like "a style of cartoon network shows from the 1990s to early 2000s." More likely I considered the art style also known as "the late Hanna-Barbera-era style from the 90s" or "The early Cartoon Cartoon style" as well as the initials "HB-CC" or "LHB." Aka "Hanna-Barbanime".

13. Classic Cartoons
I grew up with them on TV, mostly Tom and Jerry, when I was young. There are lots of funny gags that inspires me from many series that I've been hooked on, such as Looney Tunes, MGM Cartoons (Droopy and Tex Avery friends), H-B era Scooby Doo, Popeye, Walter Lantz (Chilly Willy is my favorite), Classic Disney, Famous Studios (Harveytoons), and Underdog, Terrytoons, Color Rhapsodies (especially Scrappy), etc. Like I said, I prefer the classics over the new respected modern ones since some new shows went THAT BAD with ridiculous memes and lack of art styles, the CalArts styled bean heads. And in case many Disney franchises are popular, my favorite franchise is Winnie The Pooh since Many and New Adventures of Pooh.

14. Pingu
One of my favorite clay animation show that influence my clay art style. It is still as cute as Kirby's.
Talking of which, it is considerably Play-doh which I used to build something back in 1st grade.

15. Retro Anime Classics
Alongside enjoying seeing variety of anime clips on YouTube since Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z and Hamtaro, I'd really enjoyed watching timeless variety of retro anime from 1980s to 1990s. There were lots more to find to watch on Retro Crush like Cardcaptor Sakura, Bubblegum Crisis, Blue Seed, Kaiba (A 2008 Anime), Robot Carnival and Project A-ko. The comedic scenes in some anime classics are much funnier and expressive compared to modern anime and the most things I like about retro anime are hilarious expressions that reminds me of classic Puyo Puyo and adorable art style assortments of 90s mahou shoujo. my favorites are Akazukin ChaCha (Min Ayahana) and 1994 TwinBee Paradise OVA. Because in this TwinBee OVA, its character design is an animator and game designer who worked on the TwinBee game series I grew up playing, Shujirō "SHUZILOW.HA" Hamakawa. Like I said, This is the most part of anime inspiring me.

16. Mamori Yoshinoya (Twinkle Star Sprites series)
It seems like the art style of the japan-only sequel of my favorite NEO-GEO shmup is much like Post-Fever era Puyo Puyo because of an exact anatomy, especially shapes of bodies and faces of the characters, as well as Pop'n Music 7-9 because of UI graphics when it came out and the artist changed her character art style after Twinkle Star Sprites and ADK World. So like I said, I'd like how Twinkle Star Sprites series inspires my art style, especially first and the sequel artstyles.

17. Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Ojamajo Doremi and Heartcatch PreCure)
Same as Yoshimoyas' and Post-Fever era Puyo Puyo series but the most part of the art style is to draw cute banana-fingered round-shaped hands for cute characters that way, as well as occasionally pretty witch clothes.

18. Neopets
When I used to play at this website when I was very young, some various creatures are as cute as what you've seen here in the influence map such as Kacheeks, Chias, and Hasees.

19. Pokemon
My childhood video game and anime series. Cute characters inspires me as well and Gen 3 (RSE) is my favorite.

20. Blues Clues Traci Paige Johnson
The way I draw eyes on characters looks like inspiration of my childhood show.