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Pieter Brügel The Elder Growing up I loved visiting museums and looking at old masters,
I also visited a lot of modern museums but they did not really feed my imagination like the
old masters. Amongst the old masters one stood out for me and that was Flemish 16th
century artist Pieter Brügel the elder, it was something with the choice of motive that stood
out, a lot of the other art depicted kings, wars or landscapes but his was of everyday
things happening to ordinary people. He could do motives off people skating on the lakes,
coming home from a hunt a village feast or Children playing. We had jigsaws of several
of his motives and during holidays we used to assemble them over and over really getting
a feel to all the little details they have.

I was not only fascinated by all the people in his paintings he also was great at painting
buildings real or dreamt up, like his paintings of the tower of Babel.

Moebius The first of the artist I have spoken about was from my childhood and the
thought about doing this for a living was not something I contemplated, in fact, I did
not think about my future and what I was going to do at all growing up.

I discovered Moebius as a late teenager when I had at least started thinking about my
future and seeing his drawing kind of blew my mind, I just could not believe how it was
possible to draw in that way, and later on, I discovered the fact that the drawings he made
under his real name, Jean Giraud was just as unbelievable but in a completely different
way I could not believe it.

Moebius is also one of the universe builders his drawing are always instantly
recognizable with the same clean line as Herge but just with so much more lines.

I guess seeing Moebius work kind of made me very hesitant believing it could be possible
to make it as an artist, to reach his heights was not possible so why give it a try? But
luckily there is a place for all kind of artists and it’s very important to be inspired by
different influences but not be depressed how good they are. It’s important to see where
they started, for example, look at the first of Herge's Tintin albums and follow the progress
he made over a period of fifty years.

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Terry Gilliam The Illustrator and Director who shot to fame as the animator for Monty
Python, he is an avid user of sketchbooks and uses them as a tool when he directs
films. Terry has also written a very funny book about illustration and animation called
Animations of mortality.

Robert Crumb American underground comic creator, his most famous creation is
probably Fritz the Cat but all his comics are very interesting, Robert Crumb also used
a lot of sketchbooks and they are wonderful to see.

Chris Ware Is probably the most esteemed American cartoonist today, his work is
complicated and precise, in his sketchbooks you can see how he experiments.

Gus Bofa I first saw Gus Bofas (a French Illustrator) work at Angoulême International
Comics Festival and was blown away, unfortunately, there is not much on the internet
about him, but if you happen to come one over one of his books you are in for a treat, he
is a master in catching characters.

Richard Scarry American children book Illustrator who made images where a lot of
different things happened, I sed to love his books and spent endless hours examining
them.

André Franquin The creator of comics like Spirou and Gaston (and another Belgian) but
he also did more personal comics with darker themes called Idées noires (dark thoughts).

I also recommend getting inspiration from other sources then art and illustration I get a
lot of inspiration from history and science but you never know what sources work best for
you.

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