#stephanie was high school for me but still: indelibly inscribed into my artistic dna

[shoomlah]

Oh man I have a folder in Dropbox that's just titled "Formative Art" for exactly this reason—any time I luck across some ancient art that permanently imprinted on my little middle school brain I HOARD IT into my little folders. Just in case these were particularly influential to anyone else, a couple of my heavy hitters:

Anna Misak:

Bara-chan:

Stephanie Lostimolo:

“what’s posted on the internet stays there forever” is true for everything except that one piece of fanart you saw when you were 10 that changed the trajectory of your life forever. you will never find that again it is gone forever