Hmm... I started out in a completely different place with my art, and it's taken me a while to get where I am today. Initially, I was a bog-standard western-comics influenced pencil-to-inks-to-colours comic artist, and I wasn't too good at it either! :3 I started out using Photoshop for all my digital goodness.

Then my inherent laziness kicked in, and I started skipping the pencils, working straight to inks digitally. (Some of you might even remember the comic I used to host here at Drunk Duck. It was called The Road Less Travelled.) At this point I was working in Open Canvas 1.1 mainly, and using the watercolour brushes to do all my colouring. Cell shading is incredibly exacting, and shows up all the flaws in a lineart - soft-shading tends to be a bit more forgiving. Hence, laziness wins, and I soft-shaded.

Then... I got lazier still...! (as if that's possible. Believe me, I'm one step away from abstract art, that's how lazy I am). I cut out the pencils and inks. Inks - similarly to cell-shading - demand a certain amount of exactness. They're a hard edge, and hard edges demand exacting knowledge of anatomy and stuff! So I started making "digital" pencils in Open Canvas for guidelines, and then transforming that (through various techniques of my own) into a painting by removing the "pencils" as I went. I had, through laziness alone, become a digital painter (also, not made comics for a while - digital painting might have been the lazy option for me, but it's also incredibly time consuming to begin with).

Naturally, digital painting tends towards realism by it's very nature... digital painting gravitates towards that as a style, particularly if you're not using lineart (lots of digital painters without a realistic style include lineart but colour it appropriately... that's too much effort for me!).
So I started to drift towards a more photo-realistic style.

I started to do more traditional (real life, non-digital!) painting too, on the days I was feeling too lazy to even turn on my own computer.

So, then... well. I argue that I've drifted away from realism again without ever fully achieving full photorealistic abilities because I don't like ultra-photo-realistic painting. It's true that I find it somewhat dead - plasticy, lacking any sort of life or emotion. It's too perfect, like airbrushed photography, and I hates it. This is my argument.

Of course, I'm also too lazy to spend all that time working on photorealism, when I can just suggest things instead with paint. I don't even use guidelines any more - that's how lazy I am - I just paint in blocks of colour, very quickly, very scribbly (and I tell people I'm trying to retain life in my paintings through this immediacy. Surprisingly, that's actually the truth!).

My main influences at the moment are Ashley Wood and Phil Hale, two painters of extraordinary talent and skill, and probably both less lazy than me. :P

So yes. My work has meandered gently downhill on the path of least resistance. I'm lazier than you give me credit for. ;)

My art has been heavilly inspired by Kentaro Miura (creator of great titles such as Berserk, Japan and The King of Wolves) and 80s-style anime and manga. I love that style to death.

I don't know if I have a signature style really...each of my comics are in a different style.

Keyagi - Manga-ish. I'm new to manga art style but I love anime and manga so much I thought I would try my hand.

Beyond the Pale and Snakes and Apples - The styles are pretty similar. Kinda realistic with a little bit of anime/manga flavoring.

Stupidity in the right ear - I loved comics like garfield and peanuts as a kid and started drawing in this style, prolly in my early teens.

Telltale leaf...um, style out of need for speed. I needed a style that I could draw quickly since it was for a 24 hr comic.

heh, I don't think I even have a style.

I've been told I have a minimalist thing going on with lazer dust but that's only because I can't actually draw detailed things all that well. I suppose I'd go with the minimalist style, until I find something more... suitable.

uuhhhh...