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Who Inspires You?
Hey all, I'm curious about something. Is there any person, either a famous person, or someone who know in real life, who inspires and influences your art who isn't famous in the kind of art you do?
What inspires you about them? How does what they do connect to what you do?
Comments open!




Grass inspires me.
(Sorry, Josh Dun quote...)
But that brings me to Josh's bandmate in Twenty One Pilots, Tyler Joseph, whose songwriting is very vulnerable but also veiled in metaphors about his insecurities. That sounds really pretentious reading it but all the lyrics are trying to make sense of hard things that don't make sense. That inspires me to use all forms of art to face what I'm struggling with, reveal myself in a way that could maybe help others.
That's not pretentious :) I love Twenty One Pilots' music that I've heard; I definitely get that vibe from them. I don't know a lot about their personal biographies, but yeah, I definitely feel that there are some deep vulnerabilities there.
I have no idea what qualifies as famous or not, so I'll just list people.
glitchedpuppet, creator of the multimedia surreal-and-metafictiony webcomic Floraverse.
I have a lot of trouble putting into words why they inspire me, so I'll just link parts of their work.
http://floraverse.com/comic/try-try-again/413-try-try-again-part-5a/
http://floraverse.com/comic/try-try-again/441-here-goes-nothing-p30/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbck_mGBB4&feature=youtu.be&t=19m21s
And last but not least, a quote:
Supergiant Games also inspires me a lot, both in storytelling and in visual style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT55lch6y_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvxfmnrNj2U
Links are great ^_^ I've never heard of Floraverse before, but hey, why not check out something new?