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6 September 2010

I didn't really follow the sizing rules, since I didn't know how I would make everything fit that way.
Even so.. Hrrrr, not enough space!

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The first time I was inspired to draw was when I first encountered Arthur Rackham's work in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (my aunt had this old battered unabridged copy). I was around 4 or 5 at the time, but I had already gotten tired of kid's books and I was beginning to read longer stories. A few years later I was given a hardbound cloth-covered Brothers' Grimm fairy tales book (which I still have), and upon encountering Rackham's work again I started to draw in earnest. They were all crappy drawings, honestly (what do you expect from a kid? LOL), and most had that anime look (the 90's being that sort of era) but my attraction to ink started from there.

Sandro Boticelli and Alphonse Mucha: beautiful women and flowing hair. I kept seeing books on them every time I went to National Bookstore when I was in fifth grade.
Mucha made me start drawing flowing robes, and Boticelli's work is the reason I started drawing breasts.
(Although people in general thought I was being a dirty little girl--so the time I first encountered Boticelli was also the time I was first introduced to hentai. I made funny boobie comics about some of my classmates back then; one or two found them amusing, the rest thought I was horrible. Haha.) That's one tiny Mucha, I know,
but I had to find a way to stick it in there somehow.

I first came across Amano back in first or second year high school, when I was looking up who created the Final Fantasy characters. I was playing FF7 and Ehrgeiz at the time and I fell in love with his art. I started playing around with watercolour during 7th grade, but seeing his work made me completely rethink the way I used the medium.

I found and bought a bunch of old Heavy Metal magazines in the Filbar's near school, attracted by the beautiful half-naked woman on the cover, and that's where I first encountered Luis Royo's work. The dark style appealed to me, and I kind of felt the same way I did when I first saw Rackham's work. I found Giger around the same time, while browsing through one Heavy Metal issue I saw a small printout inserted and it had awesome art on it. I kept searching for robot, robot girl, dark robot, robot sex, and tada! Discovery!

I have always had a thing for machinery. Masamune Shirow's GITS, Appleseed, and Alita appealed to me big time. High school brought more anime into my life. (Crap, I forgot to stick Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis in! Oh well.) As you all know, the 90's was pretty much an anime era, and it has extended all the way up to now. I don't watch as much anime as I used to, but the inherent love for machine girls has stayed. Couple that with my attraction to Neo-Victorian and steampunk.. you get the picture. Add mythology and folklore to the influence, and you get.. all the manner of crazy things, aye?

Gil Elvgren = most awesome classic pinups in the world. His oil paintings of classy ladies in those garters with those cute expressions really make my day.

All the inspiration for weird little funny doodles come from Hayao Miyazaki. Because of his work, when I'm not painting girls or sketching Shin's designs or inking stuff, I can be found doodling odd cats and whatever creatures. I want to be a Catbus! (I remember ~dirtysneak gave me a small Catbus plushie, which I now cannot find! *dies*)

Aaand the reason why Shiina Ringo is in my Map is not just because of her music (which I love)--I have shitloads of other musical influences--but because the myriad of looks she has bleeds into my work. She's quite the chameleon, that woman.

Marina Bychkova's dolls are one big influence when it comes to my digital work. They have this strange quality to them which I can't really explain.. it's not really just the beauty. Anyway, I just end up drawing.

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Description
6 September 2010

I didn't really follow the sizing rules, since I didn't know how I would make everything fit that way.
Even so.. Hrrrr, not enough space!

*

The first time I was inspired to draw was when I first encountered Arthur Rackham's work in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (my aunt had this old battered unabridged copy). I was around 4 or 5 at the time, but I had already gotten tired of kid's books and I was beginning to read longer stories. A few years later I was given a hardbound cloth-covered Brothers' Grimm fairy tales book (which I still have), and upon encountering Rackham's work again I started to draw in earnest. They were all crappy drawings, honestly (what do you expect from a kid? LOL), and most had that anime look (the 90's being that sort of era) but my attraction to ink started from there.

Sandro Boticelli and Alphonse Mucha: beautiful women and flowing hair. I kept seeing books on them every time I went to National Bookstore when I was in fifth grade.
Mucha made me start drawing flowing robes, and Boticelli's work is the reason I started drawing breasts.
(Although people in general thought I was being a dirty little girl--so the time I first encountered Boticelli was also the time I was first introduced to hentai. I made funny boobie comics about some of my classmates back then; one or two found them amusing, the rest thought I was horrible. Haha.) That's one tiny Mucha, I know,
but I had to find a way to stick it in there somehow.

I first came across Amano back in first or second year high school, when I was looking up who created the Final Fantasy characters. I was playing FF7 and Ehrgeiz at the time and I fell in love with his art. I started playing around with watercolour during 7th grade, but seeing his work made me completely rethink the way I used the medium.

I found and bought a bunch of old Heavy Metal magazines in the Filbar's near school, attracted by the beautiful half-naked woman on the cover, and that's where I first encountered Luis Royo's work. The dark style appealed to me, and I kind of felt the same way I did when I first saw Rackham's work. I found Giger around the same time, while browsing through one Heavy Metal issue I saw a small printout inserted and it had awesome art on it. I kept searching for robot, robot girl, dark robot, robot sex, and tada! Discovery!

I have always had a thing for machinery. Masamune Shirow's GITS, Appleseed, and Alita appealed to me big time. High school brought more anime into my life. (Crap, I forgot to stick Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis in! Oh well.) As you all know, the 90's was pretty much an anime era, and it has extended all the way up to now. I don't watch as much anime as I used to, but the inherent love for machine girls has stayed. Couple that with my attraction to Neo-Victorian and steampunk.. you get the picture. Add mythology and folklore to the influence, and you get.. all the manner of crazy things, aye?

Gil Elvgren = most awesome classic pinups in the world. His oil paintings of classy ladies in those garters with those cute expressions really make my day.

All the inspiration for weird little funny doodles come from Hayao Miyazaki. Because of his work, when I'm not painting girls or sketching Shin's designs or inking stuff, I can be found doodling odd cats and whatever creatures. I want to be a Catbus! (I remember ~dirtysneak gave me a small Catbus plushie, which I now cannot find! *dies*)

Aaand the reason why Shiina Ringo is in my Map is not just because of her music (which I love)--I have shitloads of other musical influences--but because the myriad of looks she has bleeds into my work. She's quite the chameleon, that woman.

Marina Bychkova's dolls are one big influence when it comes to my digital work. They have this strange quality to them which I can't really explain.. it's not really just the beauty. Anyway, I just end up drawing.

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Here's the template by !