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Influence Map — Description
Edit - did I really forget to include kawacy, aaaaah

I'm having an art block and I'm feeling like I'm not improving the way I'd like to, so this was a nice moment to make my influence map as a reminder of my art goals and inspirations. I wanted to do this since forever ago anyways

From top left to bottom right, starting with the bigger grids,

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takatora/yayuyo - I found this artist about five years ago and I still consider his art goals. I like the highly detailed and curly hairstyles, the fluffy eyelashes, the skirts with frills for days, the really feminine apperance of the characters with patterned stockings and high-heels and the floral themes. His coloring skills are amazing too. I had a hard time picking only one drawing for this map, so I recommend everyone to look up his other artworks!

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Himaruya Hidekaz - Higschooler me was really into Hetalia. I love how Himaruya's artstyle has a nice balance between sketchyness and pretty details and he uses bright colors without making his drawings look too saturated.
chihiro/kemonomichi - Another artist/circle I found around the time I found takatora's works. Lots of watercolor paintings and pretty lady Touhous. My pen and paper sketches look more like his art than my digital pieces, so I think this style really depends on the medium used.

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kotoinari - Spooky picture book illustrations! It's important for me to make my art tell some kind of story or have a certain mood/atmosphere, and kotoinari does this with every single picture he makes. Also his tiny and round characters look really cute!
Kuvshinov Ilya - I like his sceneric/cityscape works more than his portraits. He's also really good at setting the mood with the and colors, and that's something I'd like to get better at.
Banpai Akira - Detailed watercolor-ish illustrations with pretty Touhous, see above!

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snatti89 - I only recently found this artist but I already know I want to draw good scenery and environment like him.
yulipo - Draws pretty Touhous!
yujup - Draws cute Touhous. Also there's that soft flowery-watercolory style I like a lot.
kekeflipnote - His animations always make me smile. Bouncy birbs and foxes. He inspired me to make more animations, something I always wanted to do but didn't know how to start.
Takeuchi Naoko - Sailor Moon was the first anime I got into, and there was a time when my drawings were really influenced by her artstyle.
Kaneoya Sachiko - A really nice artstyle.
yuumei - Detailed backgrounds and cityscapes.

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