Had to look a couple of these up. Tex Avery and Bob Clampett I knew of course, and I encountered Milt Gross as an adult. Mary Blair I had never heard of – thanks for calling her to my attention! How did you encounter her? Via Disney?
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I can sure see how League of Legends influenced your Krita portfolio! I think you’re well on track!
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I just remembered another big influence, not from comic books or record covers: Anders Zorn, a Swedish painter active up into the 1920’s, I believe. One day I’m going to visit Sweden, as much to visit Zorn’s studio (which has been preserved!) as for any other reason.
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The earliest I could remember, the two things that made me want to draw the most were Pokémon (so many illustrators including but not limited to Mitsuhiro Arita and Ken Sugimori) and a PS1 game named R-Type Delta; I’d put the classic Spyro and Crash games ahead on my favorite games list, but there’s something about R-Type Delta that ~4-year old me found compelling (and I still do). I attempted to draw the Cerberus back then, though over the years I ended up being more into drawing living creatures than spacecrafts. (I should try Cerberus again now that I have a lot more technical knowledge!)
In more recent years it has been Capcom-connected illustrators such as Bengus and Daigo Ikeno primarily for Darkstalkers (though I’ve actually liked Capcom’s aesthetics since Rival Schools on the PS1, so it technically started with Edayan), Hirohiko Araki (for both JoJo and his philosophy on art in general, e.g. find inspiration from everything in the world and not just whatever is trendy in art), Monty Oum (another philosophical influence, and I’d credit him for making me want to stick with digital graphics in my own way), Junji Ito, Moebius, and Akira Kurosawa (shout-outs to Krita’s wrap-around feature for letting me paint seamless looping fog effects for my motion graphics).
I did catch Mitsuhiro Arita’s stream where he drew Hellboy. Still excellent.
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I like Parappa the Rapper too!
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I actually stumbled upon her work while I was looking at the bonus disc of the Alice in Wonderland Special Edition DVD. I remember looking at the concept art for that movie and it really sparked my imagination a lot.
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so, J R R Tolkien, he painted the covers of the books, as well as did the maps. When I was 5, one of my older brothers brought home as a gift to myself and my sister and another brother, Tolkien’s books. So, that was my early inspiration. when I was 10, my sister bought me a couple calendars of the hobbit (1977 cartoon movie art Ralph Bakshi) and a Lord of the Rings Art book too ( brothers Hildebrant ) . My brother, a few years older than I, was reading, Conan, and Tarzan books, art cover by Boris Vallejo and also Frak Frazetta. Those were the art pieces I liked, but my style isn’t even close to theirs I think heheh.
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Sometime while I was in junior high school a very good friend kept urging me to read The Lord of the Rings. I resisted, saying I didn’t read fantasy (which I didn’t, back then). I had read The Hobbit, and considered it a kid’s book – which it was intended to be! One day I happened to have money in my pocket and I saw the whole set, and went ahead and bought it. By the end of Chapter 2 (Shadow of the Past) it was clear to me that LOTR was not a kid’s book, and I read through the whole thing as fast as I could.
When I was done, I got big sheet of paper, about two feet square, and in ink I re-created the map of Middle Earth; did a fairly good job of it too. This I presented to my friend, with the complaint “Why didn’t you make me read this sooner?”
Since then, I’ve gone through several sets of LOTR in paperback, but I’ve lost that original set, and I regret it; it was the set with JRR Tolkien’s covers, the three that joined together to form one image.
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If you don’t play already, you should try Lord of the Rings Online. Its free to play and really enjoyable.
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Hi.. The old masters, would be someone like Henri Matisse
Aussies, I would put down someone like Ken Done and several others.
And contemporary digital Artist who have inspired me, I would have put down any one of the fantastic talents we have here.
There are just way oo many to mention, and I mean that sincerely 
Cheers
PS: having said that, my tastes are in a constant state of flux
For me, no one really inspired me to draw at first other than a classmate I might’ve had a tiny bit of crush on in like 7th grade. He drew and I wanted to make friends with him via drawing anime because I also liked watching it (this was back when you were the capital W Weird Kid if you enjoyed watching anime), which did kind of work.
Funnily enough we never talked after graduating elementary school, but I kept drawing anyway because I enjoyed the process of it. Nowadays I don’t really watch much anime anymore, opting to read mangas instead, and I’m not really trying to recreate that style either.
During elementary and high school, I did seek out YT videos made by other artists, and the one in my early days who inspired me the most was DrawingWiffWaffles, because I drew traditionally only (couldn’t afford a drawing tablet for a while).
But current inspirations for me include, that came to mind immediately are (I wish I could include even more people but then I’m going to be here for at least a day, or more…):
J.C. Leyendecker for how he painted fabric and I think men are always depicted with a great amount of love and care in his works, despite those having had to be “ads” for the Saturday Evening Post.
Mike Mignola. The first time I stumbled upon a Hellboy comic in my local bookshop I had to buy it, the graphic (?) style appeals to me greatly, and I never saw someone shade/imply form with pure black before that moment.
Kei Urana, creator of Gachiakuta for how energetic their style comes across in the manga, and how they aren’t afraid to make characters look “weird” in certain story points for comedic effect. Foreshortening is also used a lot by them, which I’m always in awe at.
One more mangaka is Ryoko Kui, the creator of Dungeon Meshi for the world building and character design and, writing.
Yuming Li, the way they use colors always makes my jaw drop.
Speaking of colors, I really like Chris Hong’s approach to using colored pencils when it comes to traditional art.
One more person who I’ve come across recently and I really like is AmILobter on YouTube. Their videos are really well edited, and I really like their art style. I’m also a self-taught artist and their skill level inspires me to keep on studying art in my free time.
Reading back through this I kinda realized that I also have the same “problem” of my tastes being in a constant state of change, like the last person before me lol.