I have to mention Tintin, he seems to radiate this wholesome atmosphere, maybe because of the colours they used.
What are your favourite art styles?
Thomas Rodriguez
Wyatt Collins
I also adore these Soviet caricature posters. The facial expressions and details really do it for me.
Colton Parker
I don't know why but I love the art style for Daria, It's the art style that influences me the most when I draw anything, I think it's the dark outlines that get me
Juan Kelly
Yeah, all of these are great. Daria in particular had a really great iconic look, let down a little by it's stiff animation.
So I'll start of with an obvious one. Jamie Hewlett was crazy influential in the 2000's. Just great designs and unique linework. I feel like his later gorrillaz stuff doesn't hold up to the earlier work.
Connor Walker
Joseph Lambert, this guy has such a great style, that's like a charles schulz style pushed further, but drawn in a more relaxed confident manner. The dude also released a couple of excellent comics and then just dropped off the face of the earth, took down his, his social media account, everything. Hope he's alright.
Lincoln Phillips
I meant to say, "took down his site", as well as everything else.
Roman Muradov; His works can often be too abstract or messy, but when he get's the right mix of form with abstraction, It just looks great, and each illustration almost look like they could be a company logo or mascot.
Henry Reed
Looks real smooth. The faces and the coloured lines are pretty unique, I'd say. What do you think about "Calarts"?
Liam Sanders
God I just love Tomm Moore's style. It's the clean, perfect circles, man. They're everywhere and they're so pleasing.
Bentley Taylor
Not the guy you're talking to, but I don't hate it instinctively, I just hate its proliferation. I've a soft spot for Gravity Falls for its great backgrounds, though.
Dylan Watson
I like prime Jimbo.
I know it's basic af, but I like it.
Joseph Fisher
Yeah, the same for me. It worked great in Adventure Time, but seeing it everywhere gets annoying.
Ayden Ross
I get the criticism. It does feel like they're watering down good/unique art styles. It also often feels lazy.
The bean-headed cal arts style was just not suitable for thunder cats roar (even if they want to go in that zany under five demographic), the art style just felt like they copied everyone else and strayed way too far from the source material.
Steven universe originally had a more detailed action cartoon style, it was uglier, but it was more unique. It then moved to this cal-arts style for easier animation but had constant animation mistakes which is a bit ridiculous. I think it's that sloppiness that really solidify the hate towards the cal arts style.
If every show was a gravity-hills or a gum ball, where the show looked beautiful regardless of the simple to animate character designs (or because of, you could say), people would probably not mind so much.
So more or less what this guy said, but if everything was good, nobody would have minded anyway.
Cooper White
Ah, it should also be noted: That the good shows really sort of played around with their styles outside of the simple character designs.
Adventure time with bright bold colours, simple backgrounds and characters, noodly appendages, going off model for expressions (not in the steven universe way)
Gumball Had characters rendered in different styles and methods within the same show, gumball himself being a vector puppet rig I think, and backgrounds being photos or 3d renders
Gravity Falls just had high quality animation and backgrounds paintings that didn't rock the boat but weren't lazy either, on top of top notch writing.
Anyway, another artist
Bruce Timm; Great Simple Abstract Characters inspired by art Deco. He suffers from same face, but that one face looks damn good on all his characters. Nobody has topped his version of Harely.
Colton Parker
Yeah, Art Deco si cool. I remember it being used in Batman and The Incredibles, shame there aren't more.
On the other hand, Josef Lada did some really wholesome pictures in hsi days. I wonder how it would "move" in animated series.
Luke Cox
His work looks so animate-able. I dig the background and how simple/abstract it is.
Here's Enoch Bolles- Clean, classy looking pin-up work. But there something sorta angular and geometric about a lot of his poses that I really dig.
Nathan Rogers
Talking about pin-ups, I gotta say, Bruce Minney was something else.
Logan Flores
And if Enoch Bolles is all about women then the male answer to that is
J.C.Leyendecker- Clean classy looking men, with again an often geometric thing going on with the poses
Jayden Mitchell
Haha, this guy is the cheesy sorta pin-up artist, with the dames in danger schtick, it's great.
Nathan Powell
I do love me some nazisplotation cheesecake. Got a few hot fuhrer bitches?
Colton Rodriguez
Geometry really does help the picture a lot, wow.
Kinda reminds me of Norman Rockwell. Damn, he could paint as no one else.
Robert Howard
Hewligans haircut was my first intro jamie Hewlett (pre gorillaz) then tank girl.
I think now he thinks hes some high art gadge too good for his old off the wall style.
Matthew Gutierrez
Pic related.
Dylan Bailey
Norman Rockwell was a great admirer of Leyendecker, and many would say even his biggest influence.
Anthony Gomez
I miss Hussnasty style. The true soul of Homestuck was here.
Brayden Torres
His art is still great, but it does feel like it lost it's oomph as Gorillaz went on. When Gorillaz first started, and he had to give consideration to the design for the animators sakes, I feel like the line widths and simple shapes and expressive characters really made it work.
I don't know if it was the higher budget, him getting more into digital, too many chiefs in the kitchen (it was a studio of people, rather than just him), or if you are right and he went up his own arse, but it definitely lost something.
Henry Sullivan
Oh that one is great, and I didn't have it, so yoink!
Thanks user.
Cameron Brooks
Reminder that, in the case of tin tin, all aesthetically pleasing artstyles are all derived from real-life/realism.
Angel Jackson
Yves Chaland´s Atomic style.
Isaac Allen
Alberto Breccia´s chiaroscuro.
Ian Price
It's called ligne claire (clear line)
Christopher Ward
Carlos Nine´s turn-of-the-century cartoons (think Lyonel Feininger)
Joshua Hughes
Well they do say you need to know the human figure, and the rules of anatomy, before you can break those rules.
Akira Sorimachi- I just generally enjoy everything about this guys art, except how he tends to draw men's heads. They've usually got big bulbous cartoon noses jutting out like they're in a red bull commercial, and he does this so often that his male characters tend to all look the same. But his composition, colour and line work are usually lovely, and because he illustrates for fashion companies, his characters clothing tends to be the focal point, which is somewhat unique, especially for male characters.
Ethan Perry
Huh, I simultaneously love it and hate it.