#my style was heavily informed by bill watterson & kory bing with a sprinkle of disney feature animation i think

[ragsy]

I'd love to develop some sort of taxonomic chart of the different prevalent art styles you see in internet groups and how their lineages relate

For example, you have the artists whose style is crisp solid black ink lines and cell shading with a hard round brush, which is heavily influenced by traditional cell animation, which itself is mostly split into two predominant groups (American and Japanese anime) and both of those schools of animation are themselves influenced by their predecessors and so on

And you have artists whose style is big exaggerated shapes and thick outlines and limited color palettes, whose style was influenced by early webcomics, which were influenced by the image resolution limitations of posting art online at the time, which in turn was influenced by sprite animation and classic newspaper comics, which were influenced by their own technical limitations, etc etc etc

I could go on forever about it, but I just think it would be neat to chart out those chains of influence, see where they evolve and converge and split and originate