The artist that probably is the reason I got so into drawing the way I draw would have to be Alex Pardee.
His paintings are colorful, grotesque, and he has such good control of his inking and coloring. When I stumbled upon his work back in my freshman year of high school I started to try and replicate his style in my own paintings and drawings. For the most part I just kind of copied a lot of the themes from his work at first, but it did help me progress into the characters and monsters that I like to draw today.
Through Alex Pardee I also became a big fan of Greg "Craola" Simkins.
Like Alex Pardee, Craola's work really appealed to me because it still had that kind of grotesque quality to it that I was absolutely in love with. While I ended up leaning more towards the looser quality of Alex Pardee's. I still love Craola's work and have always tried to replicate his same attention to detail and ability to combine so many elements into a cohesive pieve, something I've been really trying to push myself about in my newer drawings.
These two are probably the first two artists that I got really obsesses with, and definitely drove me into the work I like to do today.
I am a huge fan of Simkins. Glad to see other people being influence by his work.
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