fuchsia-neko's Influence Map

EDIT: I showed this to my brother and he made me feel self-conscious about it, so I redid it
I tried to make it feel less cluttered... Plus I remembered a big thing that I didn't put in there, so I kinda had to redo it anyway....
Enjoy it.


Original >> www.deviantart.com/art/Influen…
So uh yeah, I kinda had to expand this from the template size... Hey I just wanted to make sure I kept in aalllllll my influences! Don't wanna leave anything out; I've been influence by a lot of things (aka I'm unoriginal HAHA but seriously jk)
It was actually kinda difficult trying to figure out which ones influence me more... I mean some are easy, like of course Scott Pilgrim is gonna be one of the biggest, but some of them, I know they're an influence, but how much? It takes thinking for me.
I dunno, if I really feel like I messed up with stuff here I guess I'll just take it and redo it

But yeah anyway!
I've always wanted to do one of these, and what better time than around my birthday, right? So I've done it.
But, uh... I mean at first I was planning on explaining everything but this is a bit much, haha, so I'll just let the majority speak for itself...
Mainly things that are thee influence are the design, the art, the story, stuff like that. I guess if you really want more specifics for something, just ask, I guess.
Although, there are some things I think I need to put some explanations behind...
 I'm letting Kurt Vonnegut, H.P. Lovecraft, and William Shakespeare represent all the literature that inspires me, instead of a picture of books or something... Mostly 'cause if I tried books I a) couldn't pick one/ones 'cause there's so much and b) would have to use, I dunno, some dumb stock photo of random books or something. The only real piece of literature here is Alice in Wonderland. 

 The books The Museum of Hoaxes, Weird Kentucky, Tales of the Cryptids, the Scary Stories series, and Ripley's Believe It Or Not! represent all those books I read from Elementary to High school, those books about monsters and folklore and UFOs and all that which fed my mind with ideas of the supernatural, the paranormal, and oddities. I actually remember being in fourth-grade finding the area of the school library which had these kinds of books. That library had the first one of these books I ever picked up and read: Tales of the Cryptids.

 Okay so, I feel like there are gonna be people who are confused on why I put both Rayman Origins and Rayman Raving Rabbids up there, like "why didn't you just put Rayman alone?"  Well, there both pretty different games. Origins has more of a fantasy feel, while Rabbids has a more ridiculous feel (Origins is more whimsical imo), plus I always thought that Rabbids had a little more of a dark feel?
Also I have to mention that I played Rabbids first, it was one of the first Wii games we ever had, and at that point I had never even heard of a Rayman game before... Which some of you probably hate because the rabbids are known for overtaking the Rayman series for a while. But I dunno, I do realize that that really sucks, but because it was the first Rayman game it's hard for me to hate that, I'm sorry! But anyway, I've always really liked the design and feel of both games.

 There's a picture of Fallout: New Vegas there because it was the first Fallout game I played and in consequence I've played it a lot more than Fallout 3 (the only other game of Fallout I've played). But I do like the design and story of the whole series.

 I used to do a lot of comics of Red vs Blue, they were pretty much just comic retellings of episodes, but doing so many of those comics helped me improve on drawing people, and of course comics as well.

 I would've put a picture of the original Scooby-Doo show, but then I realized that I watch the more modern series What's New Scooby Doo a lot more... The opening to that show is by Simple Plan and it gives me nostalgia.

 So a lot of people probably have no idea what Sparkle Quest is, so let me explain:
There's this game called Thrillville: Of The Rails -- STICK WITH ME ON THIS -- it's basically this rollercoaster-park tycoon game, and I really liked playing it, and in it there were all these minigames of the different games and arcades and even concession stands. So one of the arcade-game minigames was called Sparkle Quest, which was a sequel to Sparkle Island, but I didn't play that one as much. Anyway, in Sparkle Quest you played as this cute little bunny girl, and you were trying to get to this scientist to go talk to him? And it was basically, kind of like, a platformer and you shot this little star at enemies and you talked to people and got them stuff -- it was actually really simple and nothing spectacular... Besides the art, it was so cute, all the characters and enemies and everything, it was adorable! And when your character jumped she like hovered back to the ground and kicked her little boots and AAAA it was so cute!
But anyway... well now that I think about it I actually might have to make that square bigger...

 Some of you also probably don't know what RebelTaxi is either; well it's a Youtube channel, driven by Pan Pizza, it's basically an animation-review channel, though sometimes he also talks about video-games. His videos are really good, he has good analyzation of what he's talking about, and everything he talks about feeds the little hipster inside of me that I like to deny the existence of. The editing of his videos is also really good, plus he has good art... But yeah anyway, I decided to put it here because I feel like every time I watch a new video of his, I get some kind of re-invigoration inside that reminds me of why I do art, and why I do the art that I do.