Favourite Artists

[Tetsu Deinonychus offline]

What are your favourite artists, in every visual medium?
Here's mine.

Comics:

-Kevin Eastman
-Peter Laird
-Osamu Tezuka
-Michael Dooney
-Akira Toriyama
-Pat Spaziante
-Windsor McKay
-Tsutomu Takahashi
-CLAMP
-Harvey Mercadoocasio AKA "Harvo"
-Jack Kirby
-Kim Jea Eun
-Katsuhiro Otomo
-Shirow Masamune

Animation:

- Max Fleisher
- Osamu Tezuka
- Mamoru Oshii
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Satoshi Kon
- Peter Chung
- Shinichiro Watanabe
- Don Bluth
- Jérôme Mouscadet
- Vincent Bonjour
- Françoise Charpiat
- Takashi Koike
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Chuck Jones
- John K
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Leiji Matsumoto

Video Games:

- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Hironobu Sakaguchi

Classical Painting:

- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Salvador Dali
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Kuniyoshi

Sculpture:

- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Live Action Film:

- Orson Welles
- Mamoru Oshii
- Wong Kar-wai
- Kevin Smith
- Akira Kurosawa
- The Wachowski Brothers
- The Cohen Brothers
- Tim Burton

That about covers it for me.

[YDV offline]

Uh.. my "favorite artist" repertoire is very skimpy compared to yours, as most of the time I pay no attention ^-^;

I guess my favorite manga artist would be Hitoshi Okuda, considering his Tenchi series influenced me a lot in developing my own style (even though it's really watered down and American-ized xD)

And.. oh darn.. well I guess I'll edit this as soon as I think up some more.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't Jerome Mouscardet the -producer- for CL?

[Tetsu Deinonychus offline]

According to IMDB, he's the director.

And, yeah the Tenchi manga rules. Sometimes it's even better than the anime.

And, well I don't expect everyone's list to be that big. It's just that I always want to know about who made the show/comic/game I like and look it up, and sometimes read interviews etc.

I do wish everyone knew who Kevin Eastman was though. He's awesome.

[xLyOkO mAsTeRx offline]

Well, can't really say Artists past music artists.

Music:
Green Day
My Chemical Romace
50 Cent
DJ Sammy
Everlife
Mariah Carey

Lots of ones I can't remember right now but there are lots more.

[SamBlob offline]

I did not realize the value of Leo Begsten until he was gone. NO-ONE can capture the essence of Peter Egan's Side Glances columns like he did.

Dave Berg of MAD magazine was great, too. So was Prohias.

Picasso was supposed to be the genius of the 20th Century, but I think Calder comes close to him, if not surpassing him altogether.

I used to like Liechtenstein until I heard he ripped real comic artists without giving them due credit... crook.

And then of course there's Pininfarina, Bertone, Giugiaro, Anderlioni, Loewy, Stevens, Brock, Bracq, etc...

[Dr. Ezra offline]

I'll keep this short. I have many, many more. These are just my top favorites.

Manga
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Takeshi Obata

Anime
Hayao Miyazaki

Musical Artist
Gackt

[Blueyedblonde offline]

Comics:

Alex Ross
Micheal Turner

Music:

Blink 182 <-- Unlike others, they actually write there own music.
Hawthorne Heights
Fall Out Boy
HowieDay
Lifehouse
Avril Lavigne

Movies:

Kevin Smith <-- CLERKS, is the greatest movie ever written.

[KarinBerry offline]

My favorite artists are:

Viggo Mortensen: his photography, painting, poetry, and spoken word are phenomenal.

Mark Ryden: a little on the shock-value side of things, but I adore him.

Kaori Yuki: the artist who draws Angel Sanctuary. I saw the first three episodes on an English dvd and decided to own the entire set of manga in Japanese even though I can't read it. The pictures are so pretty!

Brian Froud: his concept art for <i>The Dark Crystal</i> is mindblowing.

Kevin Smith: the man's just a genius.

Peter Jackson: admit it, he did great things with those books.

Kevin Martin: lead singer for a band from the 90s called Candlebox. his solo effort is just a awesome.

Peter Klett: guitarist for Candlebox. his solo effort is also good, but the man can <i>work</i> his guitar!

music-wise, there's also whoever deserves credit for Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana, as I'm aware that various minds met to create each song.

Mort Kunstler makes great paintings of the American Civil War and I get his calendar every year.

this list could go on and on...this is top of mind, though.