so my inspirations are all over the place and are often unrelated to furry art. early childhood inspirations are going to be animation, specifically stuff like secret of nimh and other don bluth films, watership down, lord of the rings (the bakshi film..yeah it gets hated on but also theres some mad vibes in there), last unicorn, fox and the hound (a lot of disney animation), balto, stuff like that. theres so much animation that influenced me honestly. my grandfather collected a shitton of animated vhs movies and had hundreds of tapes in the basement that i cut my teeth on and watched while learning to draw

as a Kid on the Internet i really liked black blood alliance and all the other wolf comics. kahvie is another early art inspiration i remember really taking ahold of me, and i think that one can still be visually felt. ive had a couple people come to me in the past asking if i was kahvie haha it makes me sad that they disappeared.. i hope theyre okay out there.

returning to furry, SE Case (EestStreatDrug) is an artist ive been following for a really long time, their comic Cheap Thrills is a long time art and writing inspiration and its totally still a comic that updates and is amazing and you should read it and sub to their patreon.

another comic i adore is the clementine comics. miss those comics dearly, hope the artist is doing well.

uhhhh flash round of random artists off the top of my head that i really like repoghost (my icon + header here), lilaira, commissionsbyj, purplebirdman, goyagoat, epseelutely, lucjan_, marsoid, kalpeakoira, houndsaint, beksinski, leyendecker, ummm uhhh. theres a lot more. i like a lot of things. this doesnt even start to tackle film and music and other forms of art. bloodborne is my favorite game, write that down. i get my inspirations from everywhere, like, just basic life stuff, honestly. oh heres a weird thing i really like, i love to buy old photo collections off of ebay. just like, peoples old family photos that no one wants (which is both sad and fascinating to me). i love the collections from the 70s-90s. i dont know, theres a lot of beautiful stuff in there, just people living their lives. its really inspiring.

wow this was long winded and it feels like it only touches the surface. hi i like art