Looking at what inspires/inspired me alot of the quirks in some of my pieces make alot more sense, I tend to go for softer more pastel colours, and usually opt to feature woman in my work rather than men. I graviate to the soft curves and circles of woman, men tend to me more angular, sharper. Though my style varied in certain respects, like body builds and face shape. What is consistent however is my love and graviattion towards curves and large eyes. I believe eyes are one of the more important things in art mainly because I believe the way people 'look' in the eyes says alot about a person. It can also determine what kind of perosanilty a character will have, for cartoons atleast its a massive indicator. Though most of my perosonal works focus character drawings and thick thighs, I do occasionally branch out into other styles and formats for my work, espeicially as I've become a little more confident.

Before I get to colour though most of my drawings begin with sketches, and most of the time i always think the sketch looks way better than the finished piece, though Im confident thats because the sketch is the fisrt think you perfect, and all parts that look perhap dodgey or poorley proportioned is covered by the sccruffy line art and thick lines used to define. Not all of my initial sketches make it to the finished phase but I think its important to show the sketch anyway, as a land marker for my work. I also enjoy playing with line work to define and colour rather than just relying on colour its self. Its been noted I can whip up a sketch pretty quickly, to figure out the posing and positioning of things, I struggle with then cleaning that sketch and creating the finished piece.

As I stated before, one of the careers I was looking into was concept art, primarily video game concepts. I have played video games since i was young, I remeber recieving my step uncles old game boy, and opening my very own brand new nintendo DS on christmas, the kind shaped like a brick, heavy as hell but i spent hours on in. Playing with my virtual dogs and talking to animal Villagers on animal crossing, I recall one calling me a "fat head" for hitting him one too many times with a net, it made me cry, scariest game I ever played. Though it was a long time ago, Im still a gamer, though my taste matured some, I wont pretend I dont own animal crossing and the limited additon switch that came with it, But I will say that I also frequent games like Resident Evil and Apex legends now. Though I watched my father (rather irresponsibly) play the odd Resident Evil game at his house, I was far too young and scared to retain anything other than "scary zombie kills you" though now I find great delight in popping heads off infected and shooting holes in other people online. But one of the most important things for me even now as a gamer is Aestsetic. I admire some of the designs for the B.O.W in resident evil "Why's his arm growing there?" I dont know but its cool right? Illustration and imagery  are an important part of telling a story. 

15-14 was the age I really started to get into my art, around the time my seizures reared their ugly head, for me it was an escape. My inspirations coming from Anime, my mom was the first to introduce me to anime, I sat down and watched howls moving castle at 9, spirited away at 10 and unknowingly became an early fan of the magical girl genre of anime years before that. The fanatastical worlds these people build with animation was amazing to me. So when I  seeked for an escape from my realisty I turned to creating my own. 

Early Inspiration

As I began drawing more, I began to draw less fanart of things I watched or played and began to create my own worlds and characters. Listening to music was a huge aid to that, often times my art would reflect the songs I was listening to or the theme around them. It was around this time I discovered vocaloid, which segwayed me into other world music. My playlists now are a mix of many different types of music. Dont be surprised that if right after listening to elvis you get the sound track for gladiator right after. But my earliest inspiration and drive was Vocaloid, for a breif rundown, vocaloids are really just voice modulators people can use to make their own songs, and they do. Though it was slightly more niche back then, Im sure you've heard the name Hatsune Miku somewhere, she even opened for Lady gaga before. But before that, vocaloids were used as a creative outlet to tell stories or just make good music. some examplesof my favourite as a developing artist were;
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These were a major source of inspiration and artistic expression to me (I'll be honest, I still listen to 75% of these songs) Though I still listen and love Hatsune Miku and the artists that create amazing songs for her, she opened many doors to other artists not explcusively japanese but all with similar themes, The use of music and imagery is something Im super into and love. Other songs in mpre recent years have also majorly inspired my personal work. 

Though it is embarassing to admit now, and looking back at the dates ALL these songs were posted makes me feel majorly old, I still love these songs and the stories they tell with them. I also can't deny the heavy influence they have had on my work, the aestetic and colours I use today. I can see how the imagery in my more developed taste ressembles my work today, and how my old fancies were similar to what I used to draw. Regardless of how juvenile it was.  Media I enjoy is important to me and my work.