Artists From Whom I'd Like to Steal

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They say that "talent borrows, genius steals"...or at least they used to, once upon an ancient moon.

Anyway...there are artists out there from whom I'd like to steal stylistic elements, solutions to particular problems and so on. Here's a partial list:

• Adam Hughes: for his ability to make figure lines flow like wine.
• John Byrne: Specifically for his own approach to figure work and backgrounds in the late '70's and early '80's.
• Jim Lee: Perspective and action dynamics.
• Phillipe Francq: For his line work in Largo Winch. (It's a more recent interest of mine, never mind that I barely understand half the dialogue, the book being written in French.)
• Charles Schulz: For his ability to say so much in so few lines of inkwork.
• More to be named later.

Does it seems like a self-contradictory list?

So be it. Sometimes the influences we'd like to be guided by are exactly that.