Richard D'Onofrio_Barry Mcgee

Richard D'Onofrio_Barry Mcgee

I've known of Barry Mcgee's work for about two years now. I was drawn to his style of work when i first came across it. Although not till this year that I've noticed his work had influenced me exponentially as I've watch my work evolve more to resembling his style of work. Barry Mcgee rose out of the graffiti boom in the San Francisco Bay area in the early nineties. His work draws heavily from what he calls the urban experience/everyday live frustrations. -(Which I like to base my work on.)  In doing this he creates bizarre faces which dominate abstract background with drips and odd patterns. To me his images are very iconic they stand out then most other artists work this is what I one hope my artwork to be viewed as.

Carolyn Searls _Gerard Way

Gerard Way is a singer/song writer/artist from New Jersey, Although best he is best known as the lead singer for the rock band My Chemical Romance he has done many visual arts related side projects,such as cartoon clips and even has his own comic book series.He also designed all the album art for his band.

MaryBethHietapelto_AlexGrey

I saw Alex Grey's artwork on all the Tool cd's ever since I was a kid. I always loved the art (and the music) and thought it was really inspiring. When I started looking up more of his work, I liked it even more than the stuff Tool used for cd's and band shirts. His paintings are massive! Overwhelmingly spiritual, and cultural explorations of what it feels like to be a human.

      I always loved this one. Probably the first piece that I fell in love with.
 The pieces hes made about birth and the connection between a mother and child inspire me a lot. I like how he paints people as if nudity isn't nudity, but just what we are. He takes nudes a step further, and sheds our skin. Are his subjects, black, white, old, young?

I encourage anyone who likes his stuff, to check out his website
alexgrey.com

MaryBethHietapelto_FirstDraft

Art is a place where you can be free. The feeling of freedom is like no other; energy with no boundaries, a body with no clothes, nature that is pure and unharmed, a blank piece of paper. I think feeling free and being free are ideas that I want to communicate. To me, feeling free is a lie, a half way thing, that this society will allow. I want my art to push people away from being okay with a feeling and inspire them to chase after what they don't even know they can have, truth, happiness, freedom, harmony, balance, and love.

Art is a place where you can be free, and that is why I choose to pursue art.

Drew Cossa_Edmund McMillen

I've known about Edmund Mcmillen for a very long time now. But I don't think his art started to really influence mine until just recently.

The expressiveness of his characters is something I try very hard to keep up with.

The first game I played by him was Super Meat Boy. An extremely hard platformer that is a homage to older ones like Super Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog. During the games hand-drawn cutscenes their is lots of sadistic and expressive humor that I find really appealing. It had been a long time since I was so charmed by a videogame. Imitation is the best form of flattery and a huge hint of his style is forever ingrained in my work.

Im a sucker for characters that have a missing eye or limb. This has always been one of my favorite pieces by this guy.

I remember seeing this character and wanting to draw more super-villians. Also look at that shading, LOOK AT IT.

I love this method of shading. I knew this was the direction I wanted to go in almost the instant I saw it.

Again, great example of an expressive face. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUY9iF7lAGc <-- A cutscene from Super Meat Boy that does a good job showing what he does best. 

http://digitalportfolio2013.blogspot.com/2013/09/character-select-2013-prisma-color.html <-- My work samples. I recommend taking a look if you want to see the parallels between his work and mine. 

cwicker_luigi serafini

I just resently heard of Luigi Serafini an Italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer of the late 70's. Luigi Serafini made a book, (codex) an encyclopedia of unknown, bizarre , parallel world. It’s about 400 pages long. The entire book is written in an unknown language. Luigi Serafini devoted 30 months of his life to create this masterpiece and from what I have been able to find is the only one of its kind by Luigi Serafini I haven't seen any other work by him threw research online. I absolutely love the illustrations in this book and the philosophy behind it I feel it oddly resembles my work in areas and a weird relation to an alien world which iv always been very fond of.

Amanda_HajinBae

I have drawn much inspiration from Hajin Bae, an illustrator whose blog I found on Tumblr. She most often does line-drawn portraits, and though she tries not to stray too far away from basic characteristics of the human face, the level of detail and care that she puts into her work is not hard to notice, and I find her patience very admirable.

http://www.almostreal.me/2012/05/28/introducing-soulist-aurora-illustrator-seoul/