Design Influence

For the most part, I appreciate the artwork and design in manga, but for a long time now, I pretty much never copy from manga. I used to emulate Trigun Maximum, Priest, Evangelion, Blade of the Immortal, and AKIRA.

But in terms of intentional borrowing, there's really only 1 artist who I've borrowed a lot from, and he's American. Todd McFarlane and Spawn, the 90s version, not so much the current one. In Middle School, I copied from Spawn a LOT. Todd McFarlane is a real master of Fabric and shading, in both comics and animation. Ichigo was pretty irrelevent. Ichigo looks like a pussy compared to Spawn. He'd break Ichigo Kurosaki in HALF like a twig if the two ever met. I'm aware of Bleach, but I was never all that impressed with it. Certainly not impressed enough to "copy" from manga crap like that.