Influence Map

1. Quentin Blake - His illustrations for all the Roald Dahl books are the first that I can remember connecting with as a kid. i was always drawn to the loose, almost frantic quality of his work.  and im pretty sure that he's the reason i draw the way i do.

2. Lynn Pauley - recent influence - she does reportage illustration.

3. Peter Reynolds - interning at his company, Fablevision in Boston, is where I realized I wanted to really pursue illustration.

4. Nicolas Marlet - Love the line work in his drawings: delicate, precise, but still loose.

5. Peter Arkle - relatively recent influence - also reportage illustrator.  It's fun to his his notes about the characters/places in his drawings - it adds some quirky bits of information otherwise lost to the viewer.

6. Paul Hogarth - One of the first illustrators to really make the reportage style acceptable in commercial work.  The level of detail in his illus is incredible.

7. Richard Scarry - loved the details in his work as a kid and still do.

8. Paul Madonna - reportage illustrator.

9. Egon Schiele - He was one of the first artists I was exposed to in high school whose work I really liked and whose style I thought I had some similarities.

10. Gary Larson - Larson's humor is just great and science related.  I love science; so what's not to love?! Some of my under grad attempts at comics have similar humor.

11. Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes are super expressive, the content is hilarious, and Watterson's compositions on the larger comics or single frame images work really well and make good use of the assigned space.

12. Alexander Calder - quirky lines in his work. good stuff.