So I’m a huge William Steig fan. I mean, I really love most illustrators that are very loose pen and ink drawers, like I love pen and ink, it’s been, I didn’t grow up drawing with pen and ink, I didn’t really study it. I just fell into it when I wanted to be an illustrator and so I’m sort of self-taught in that part of art, as well as watercolor, my other, the other part of my art.
But I really love, I just love the looseness of some pen and ink artists like William Steig and Quentin Blake and Jules Pfeiffer. I just love that kind of very loose expressive line.
But I also love, you know, I’m drawn to other types of, the type of art I love is really handmade art. It’s sort of, it’s not perfect you know. It’s traditional in terms of materials. And things that are not super polished or realistic looking, I just, I’m more drawn to things that are unusual in some way. I think Maurice Sendak was good at that, you know he was, I’m a big fan of his books.
Because he did so many different ways of, he was sometimes it was like really realistic but it was really strange. And sometimes it was graphic in the way that he drew it with flat colors, and other times it was very scratchy pen and ink sort of like Where the Wild Things Are. So, but yeah, I’m just really drawn to artists and illustrators that are looser in their approach, that’s really just I think that’s most important to me.