Lumina's Influence Map

It seems like everyone is doing one of these now, so I felt left out. Yaaaay~ Finally! Lumina is doing a meme! This was actually a lot of fun. Maybe I'll do a drawing meme in the future. lol~

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I am one of those people who draw anime/manga that never took any influence from Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z. My first influences came from Toshihiro Ono’s version of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Cyborg 009. But what actually changed a lot of my artwork came when I discovered InuYasha and the rest of Rumiko Takahashi’s work. You can’t really see her style in my work anymore, but if you travel back into my elementary school years, you’ll definitely notice the influence. Later on, I got into reading things like Tokyo Mew Mew, Haruhi Suzumiya, and other more mainstream style anime/manga with all these giant eyed girls. (Then later on, I grew to have a strong dislike of Shoujo Super girl comics and hated Tokyo Mew Mew with a passion.) After that, I kind of outgrew all of those really cartoony styles when I encountered Takeshi Obata’s artwork in Death Note. That made me gain a love for semi-realistic kinds of styles. Something that really overhauled my style though was Katsura Hoshino’s D.Gray-Man. My style started to look like hers a lot and my style got a bit darker. I followed Katsura Hoshino’s style for a very long time actually. Of course, my style got infused with a lot of Takeshi Obata’s Bakuman, Riichiro Inagaki’s Eyeshield 21, Shinobu Takayama’s Amatsuki, Amashi Gumi’s Ann Cassandra, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Instead of shoujo series, I fell more in love with shounen series and their storylines, so the stories that I come up with now have a darker kind of outlook on them rather than the fluffy, cheery shoujo ideas that I used to like. I’m actually proud to say that I’ve never really picked up anything from Naruto and BLEACH. More recently, I’ve come to love love love Naoshi Komi’s Double Arts series (which was ended sadly) and one-shot Personant. One-shots are just wonderful to me. You can still tell a great story within just a chapter. And then the ending, you can just leave to the readers to think about! My style at the moment is actually getting to be more my own now. You can still see the Katsura Hoshino style in it, but not so much anymore.

You know when someone is a bit influence when you can remember their name off the top of your head. XD All of this makes me sound so super old...not really that old guys. Only 188 years old. XP

But anyway, just small blurbs on each influence:

KATSURA HOSHINO: A couple years ago, my friend showed me a manga called D.Gray-Man which I immediately fell in love with from the first page. This actually furthured the development of my style the most and my art took on a more dark flavor.

RUMIKO TAKAHASHI: This was actually my first influence into the manga style. Before, I didn't even know what manga and anime was and just started falling in love with Cyborg 009, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc. for some reason without knowing why. InuYasha was the first ever manga I read.

TAKESHI OBATA: I actually disliked the semi-realistic style Death Note was drawn in for the longest time. I ignored it until my friends sat me down to watch the anime series which from that point, I fell in love with everything Takeshi Obata. >w< Bakuman! and Death Note greatly influenced my style after Katsura Hoshino.

NAOSHI KOMI: For those of you who don't know who this guy is, he draws a lot for Shounen Jump though he doesn't last long in serialization. Double Arts lasted for about 20 chapters before it lost popularity and was dropped. But I still love his art style and think he deserves a spot in Shounen Jump. Lately, my art style has reflected a lot more of his happy, bright-eyed style (as opposed to the darker styles of Obata and Hoshino).

SHIROW MIWA: I actually read the small extra comic about the twins from Dogs: Bullets and Carnage before having read the actual series. I absolutely worship his style.

SEISHI KISHIMOTO: He's also the author of Satan 666, but I really don't care much for that series as I do his other series, Blazer Drive! I actually think he has a lot more style and sense of storyline than does his twin brother Masashi Kishimoto, author of Naruto. But that's just my impression of it.

TEEN TITANS: How can I possibly leave out the thing that I obsessed over for years on end? I've watched every episode of Teen Titans since it came out in 2003. Loved drawing Raven, Starfire, and Terra. This is when I started to draw people more anatomically correct because it frustrated me at times that my drawings of Starfire didn't look like the way they drew Starfire. I also got in the habit of using shading in my coloring.

Sorry for the uber-long comment, but I felt it was...needed? lol~

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