Okay, so here's the thing: I'm mostly skilled in semi-realism so tonight, when I produced a decent-looking anime-type portrait thing of my sister's character, I was inspired.
I want to make a tutorial on learning how to imitate other art styles.
Which means, I have a loooot of studying and practicing to do. It won't be easy and it may take me a long time to get it done but I think it'll be a lot of fun and in the long run it may be good for me as an artist.
So here's where I need your help. I need art styles to start studying. I've already got a few ideas but I'm hoping others can add to it. I'm looking for a wide variety of artists. Please no anime artists/studios. There's just too many with wonderful and unique styles that it'd take me waaaay too long to get to them all. Plus check the list below. Square Enix is on it and they've got tons of great anime styles I'd like to learn.
On deviant Art there's a meme I found (=O not to mention the Pepper Project) that had the same idea that I did (meme here) so I'll be grabbing a few names off that list. Take a look at it so you don't list any of the ones there. =O Or take a look at it to give it a shot yourself =] it might be good learning for you!
Here's a few ideas/artists I have so far:
William Bouguereau
Norman Rockwell
Square Enix
Jonathan Ian Mathers - I'm thinkin Neurotically Yours, A NSFW and considerably offensive webtoon.
Thomas Kinkade
Ashley Wood
...And apparently the lack of sleep won't let me think of any more (though to be fair, I wanted to list a couple on that meme). Does anyone else have any suggestions? At first I was going to ask for artists on deviantArt that would be beneficial to mimic but for some reason it doesn't settle well with me. I'm not sure why either. o.O;
But yeah, I'd like any suggestions or ideas anyone has for me. Thanks for looking ^_^!
9/25 Edit:
My sister suggested I start with Jhonen Vasquez style art so I getta watch a bunch of Invader Zim and read Squee! and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and call it research! This'll be awesome!
My sister suggested I start with Jhonen Vasquez style art so I getta watch a bunch of Invader Zim and read Squee! and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and call it research! This'll be awesome!