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Influence Map — Description

I've planned to do this meme for ages but never happened. However, now that I left a year out from drawing, I thought it would be useful to collect my thoughts about what inspired me previously.
You can find the original (empty) meme here: www.deviantart.com/fox-orian/a…
Stuff that influenced me and my art the most:
1. Fullmetal Alchemist was the very first anime ever that I watched. I was in my early twenties and my then-boyfriend (now husband) told me that I (who never ever watched anime before in my whole life) should try it. And I tried it. And I was like: goodness, this is a masterpiece I barely finished watching the show but I decided to learn drawing in anime style.
2. Not much later, I found myself getting deeper in anime/manga fandom and I became a huge fan of the Black Butler (manga! it's much better than the anime!) and I was astonished by Yana Toboso's marvellous illustration. It motivated me to study manga style and drawing in black-and-white.
3. As time passed, I found myself in the deepest pits of the otome game fandom and The Niflheim was my biggest favourite for years. It inspired me to create many-many content (and this is why I started my Tumblr blog): genderbender, AUs, aesthetics, drawings, wallpapers and many other things that required me to be creative.
4. Later Blood in Roses took this place; I was in a two-year-long roleplay in that universe and during that, I made an incredible amount of pictures which was not just fun but helped me improve a lot.
5. Meanwhile, I didn't stop being a fan of period drama and novels like Pride and Prejudice and even though I primarily learnt to draw in anime style, I also tried to draw more realistic pictures - and those were inspired by these.
6. And all along, my heart was beating for my queen, Taylor Swift xD Seriously, her whole being is an inspiration. Give me any lines from any of her songs and a dozen drawing ideas will pop up in my head.
Some other stuff that influenced me was:
7. Durarara!!, which was among the first anime series I watched after FMA and it kicked me deeper into anime fandom (it also gave me a cool idea of fanfic with OCs, but I never had the time to make this project real T_T well, maybe this year...)
8. Modern girly aesthetics and motivational quotes.
9. Dreamcatchers, because I love how they give a basic frame but they are customizable in many ways and I love their aesthetics (fun fact: I don't actually own one, I just like to draw them xD)
10. Silhouette drawing. And owls xD
11. Alice in Wonderland: not just the originals piece but my own interpretation of it and all the artwork inspired by it like movies, otome games, pop songs, even Whittard's tea set (goodness, those are beautiful)
12. Darker Than Black: for the same reasons as Durarara!!
13. Good Omens: both the book and the series. It got me into an awesome fandom and it's inspirational in many ways (philosophical, fun, romantic etc)
14. Those scratch notebooks - you know, the pages are black, but you can scratch its surface and under that it's colourful. Well, I really enjoy craving drawing into this surface
15. Disney cartoons - mostly the classics, but also a few of the newest ones
16. Fairy Tail - again, one of my earliest anime experiences after FMA. It got me into my first big project (next-generation OCs)
17. The world of Tim Burton. Well, I kinda lost track of his works lately, but I like his earlier works and his aesthetics
18. Violet Evergarden - the light novel, not the anime series. Goooooooodness, the light novel is so much better, I've read it countless times and it sends me on an emotional rollercoaster every each time T_T
19. Pandora Hearts: Very same reasons as Black Butler
20-21. Yuri on Ice!!! and Mystic Messenger: these things are inspiration from the beginning to the end, I wish I have more time to draw them T_T