tomomi sasaki - another artist who now spends her time drawing kids sexually which hurts me unfathomably. loved her design work on wild arms 5 and xf, both games that didn't really deserve art direction this good LMFAO my brand of cel-shading is also partially inspired by her
kunihiko ikuhara - i love ikuhara's brutal takedowns of systems of oppression in a visual language that is both derived from a rich history of surrealist leftist cinema and contemporary anime aesthetics to create something truly unique to his works
kawayoo - HATE his fixation on drawing underage girls in panties BUT im also not gonna sit here and pretend like the way i paint isn't 95% derived from the way i've seen him work in his timelapses, the atmosphere in his pieces is immense and i wish he would lay off the weird shit
also by extension twewy and its entire background art team, growing up i was always super partial to graffiti living in paris so when i played twewy soon after moving away it hit me HARD and has basically been the biggest blueprint on why my stuff looks and feels the way it does