inspirations, etc.
non-exhaustive list. i’m trying to list out the people whose work i keep returning to to admire, or think about often. or works that i feel changed and inspired by. and so on.
related: the idea of a personal canon:
an encapsulation, in list form, of those things that have most shaped you. A sort of annotated bibliography of influences.
artists
- deb jj lee – beautiful detail, colour
- jared muralt – intricate ink sketches, the details
- kim jung gi – detail, intuition, understanding of the subject
- rebecca mock – animation, environments, humour
- sachin teng – style
- soey milk – textures, rendering in her oil paintings
film, animation, media
- across the spider-verse – the art, animation, music
- avatar: the last airbender – world-building, character development, animation…
- fullmetal alchemist – world-building; love hiromu arakawa’s art as well
- leverage – the anti-capitalist stories, the joy of it all
- watchmen (comic) – the ambition
writing
essays
- An app can be a home-cooked meal by Robin Sloan (Feb 2020)
- More people should write by James Somers (27 Sep 2012)