Hmm, let's see here. When I'm not drawing Trenchcoats, cloaks, Japanese Young Man School Uniforms, and Chinese Dynasty and Trappist Uniforms with my own spin on them....
I'm drawing suits.
The biggest influences on my suit design Japanese Silhouette aesthetic (this side of the John Woo / Jason Statham, and Jet Li brand of Yakuza and Triad movies) is Tarantino's 2 most famous films this side of Kill Bill (which also has suits). Of course, I'm talking about the films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Characters such as Vincent Vega and Jules and their various hilarious and cool conversations and shenanigans in Pulp Fiction, and the gangsters in Reservoir Dogs and Al Pacino films, the Italian and Independent Miramax brand of filmmaking, just kind of carried over into the way I draw many of my character costume design in my manga. Wolfwood from Trigun, Heat Guy J, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Gungrave set the anime bar pretty high in terms of fashion design and the rhythm of the clothing. The sleekness of it all. Young Adult Males in particular LOVE this sort of thing! Even when they're an organized crime member, they still look like a million bucks.
As for AUTHORS and Screenwriters who most influence the literature I produce:
They would include (currently, not all time) Tolkien, Frank Miller, Tom Clancy, HP Lovecraft, Mario Puzo, Robert E. Howard, Aaron McGruder, and the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1960s (good luck finding and reading any of their scripts though. I'm more influenced by the actual choreography than the literary of 1960s Hong Kong. Script examples, online for 1960s Hong Kong Wuxia, are scarce. Asian cinema, from a literary perspective actually has more journalism and scholarly text (by writers like me) written about it in the United States and Asia than actual production writing and scripts on display. In other words, most people don't know how kung-fu and Asian Wuxia and Japanese cinema is actually drafted and written by it's own authors. The emphasis, historically has been visual. Until I CAME ALONG of course! Heh. I always found that kind of weird.
As for AUTHORS and Screenwriters who most influence the literature I produce:
They would include (currently, not all time) Tolkien, Frank Miller, Tom Clancy, HP Lovecraft, Mario Puzo, Robert E. Howard, Aaron McGruder, and the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1960s (good luck finding and reading any of their scripts though. I'm more influenced by the actual choreography than the literary of 1960s Hong Kong. Script examples, online for 1960s Hong Kong Wuxia, are scarce. Asian cinema, from a literary perspective actually has more journalism and scholarly text (by writers like me) written about it in the United States and Asia than actual production writing and scripts on display. In other words, most people don't know how kung-fu and Asian Wuxia and Japanese cinema is actually drafted and written by it's own authors. The emphasis, historically has been visual. Until I CAME ALONG of course! Heh. I always found that kind of weird.
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