#thejohnsu

[codekl]

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

Artist: @thejohnsu

[savvydraws]

I also did this drawing meme and never got around to sharing! I did a whole bunch of my twitter mutual‘ s OCs, it was a blast and I totally want to try doing it again sometime!

[doc-alister]

Zombie Heroine!

So a while back @thejohnsu posted up a concept of a cursed heroine who had to fight off both monsters and other heroes.  I loved the concept and the drawing so here’s some long overdue fan art for Bonnie!

[the-haiku-bot]

Invasive species

of dryad fined for damages

to public walkway

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Invasive species of dryad fined for damages to public walkway

[sariahpariah-art]

Alchemy: equivalent exchange part 2 Inspired by thejohnSu@tumblr.com

[goatartjello-blog]

Miucina for @thejohnsu, I LOVE HIS BLOG, THE CONTENT, THE QUALITY CONTENT PLEASE, 10/10!

[hisianspot]

Been doing little painting practices cause lineart was killing me I wanted to get better at them. So I’ve been drawing other people’s characters. XD

First character belongs to Cosmic Anchor

Second character belongs to TheJohnSu

And third character belongs to StarmanJr

Going to try to do more of these and improve on them. ^^

[mofleteitor]

Anyways I wanted to show off my embroidery, I'm opening a e-shop in my county and will be posting on an ins*gram with professional pics and all, but I feel like Tumblr deserves my unpolished honest mess.

Most of this are not for sale since they are fanarts, I just made them to have on my clothes. The Froggy's are of @thejohnsu and I'm not selling them, nor the baby Yoda. They are my first patches ever and I love them.

[lareindraws]

A birthday present I drew a while ago for @thejohnsu! I had told him a while ago I would make 100 drawings of his character, Miucina, and little did he know I wasn’t kidding. (+1 Alder)

[daxdraggon]

that frog post is a repost! the original artist is @thejohnsu :3

thank you anon for your blessing

[dingberg]

Who are your artistic inspirations? Are you interested or find inspiration in classical art or strictly modern artists?

Good question, and here comes a long answer because I guess that’s just what I do.

As you can probably tell from looking at my art, I take most of my inspiration from more modern artists (at least as modern as animation and whatnot started being a thing). I definitely appreciate classical art in that those artists figured out most the stuff out that we do today and the sheer amount of skill and creativity it took to do what they did with the much more limited resources and knowledge they had at their disposal. I have learned a lot from the classics and take some amount of direct inspiration from them (and plenty of indirect inspiration). For example, my tendency toward employing higher contrast with lighting and color to make my stuff “pop” more has been inspired in part by classical chiaroscuro paintings. But in general, I find myself much more interested in modern, more stylized stuff (especially character / narrative driven art), and thus find myself taking more inspiration from them as a result.

Getting off the topic of modern vs classical, I’d say I draw a little inspiration from a lot of different artists rather than a lot of inspiration from a few artists. I’ll often discover a new artist that has a style I really like, study their stuff and figure out exactly what I like about their style and learn how to do it myself, then get get distracted and discover ANOTHER new artist and repeat the process over again. Sometimes it feels like I can’t really make up my mind and just want to do everything.

As I’m sure nobody is surprised to hear, I’ve been a fan of anime/manga style art for a long time and take a lot of inspiration from those artists, mainly the more uniquely styled ones that get really creative with character design and stylization and all that. I think the most recent example would be Horikoshi Kouhei, creator of My Hero Academia. I started reading the manga a few years ago, I think, and I immediately recognized that he shared almost all of the sensibilities I already had with regards to character design, stylization, writing, and a bunch of other things. And it only sweetened the package that he’d also add little snippets between chapters with notes about his process and what his thoughts were with designing different characters and other elements. So I naturally started looking to him as an example I could learn from of “doing pretty much exactly what I like to do, but more professionally and on a much larger scale". Some precise examples of inspiration I’ve taken from him are adding more solid black to my art to make shadows pop more, and adding notes to my character designs with details about who they are beyond the design and some of my thoughts that went into making certain design decisions. Some other examples of anime/manga that serve as major inspirations for me are Gurren Lagann (stylization and exaggeration of action and lighting), and One Piece (exaggeration of character designs and giving characters fun little “quirks” to their design and personality to make them more interesting and unique). Samurai Champloo is another interesting one that inspired me with its melding of stylization with some degree of realism to get something that looks natural while still allowing for plenty of fun to be had with designs and action, and combining elements that really contrast with each other for an interesting result as well as taking inspiration from unlikely sources, like how Samurai Champloo itself is an unlikely combination between ancient samurai and modern hip-hop.

However, I also take a lot of inspiration from western artists as well. Skullgirls is a game that I bought exclusively because I absolutely adore the character designs, art, and incredible animation of the game. I don’t even really like fighting games, that’s how much I was sold on the art and characters. I was introduced to the game through the devs doing a thing they called “Whiteboard Wednesdays” during development of the game, where they posted picture of all the random doodles they did during the week, and I followed the game’s development ever since. I also have a bunch of animation sprites and sequences from the game saved to my computer to go back to and study every now and then. Seriously, check the game out if you haven’t heard of it and you’re a fan of 2D animation, that stuff is incredible. Don’t Starve has a really unique and interesting visual style that does an excellent job if giving the game a very distinct tone. Team Fortress 2 is also a HUGE one for me. One of, if not my favorite game of all time, due in no small part to the phenomenal characters that are as fun and cartoonish in their personalities as they are in their designs. For that matter, the official TF2 (and L4D) comics are wonderful examples of translating these game characters into a 2D, narrative-driven format that’s also oozing with style.

Those are just a few of my “big name” inspirations, but I honestly think most of my inspiration comes from other artists I find on social media or meet by other means that either work freelance or just do art and post it for fun. There are so many artists floating around beyond just the ones you see in games, TV or comics, and each of them has something unique to offer that no other artist has. Plus, I really enjoy seeing a lot of the miscellaneous stuff that makes up an artist, like their works-in-progress, little doodles they did in an afternoon, or the humorous little anecdotes they add onto their posts. I think the first person I ever followed and the person that inspired me to try my hand at sharing my art online was @thejohnsu. I’ve always loved his offbeat sense of humor and have been inspired by his weird process of coming up with something simple and letting it just absorb whatever odd ideas his brain happens to conjure up while he’s developing it until he eventually ends up with some crazy, creative character or situation that nobody else would have ever dreamed of. Another one of my early inspirations is @gashi45, mainly just for how insanely stylish his art looks in all aspects. Colors, shape design, expressions, it’s a complete package of in-your-face style, and he was the reason I started my quest long ago to leave my comfort zone, experiment, and really push myself to find my own unique style that really shows who I am as an artist. I actually followed these two all the way back on DeviantArt, which is where I really started as an artist online. And these are only a couple of the many artists that inspire me. Every artist I’ve followed on social media has inspired me in some way, major or minor, and even a ton of artists that I never ended up following for one reason or another.

Anyway, I hope that sufficiently answers your question.

(…I really need to work on being more concise with my answers, this is really gonna clog up people’s feeds).

[themultiplatformgamers]

Everyone is peach (credits @TheJohnSu)

[tbone-works]

Samus with a suit is just so good!

Alternate timeline where Samus is a single mother working in the big city.

[drefvalentine]

hey just wanted to let you know that the frog post is stolen art and the artist is actually thejohnsu! if you scroll up a little bit in the notes, someone links the original post.

thanks for letting me know!! I appreciate it, really don’t like supporting ppl stealing art

[genosha-meiuqer]

⚠️ Credit: thejohnsu | Tumblr

✨Froggy ✨☺️💙

[tadomodoka4-blog]

thejohnsu: be a frog http://bit.ly/2VnCxOb