ivan aivazovsky. russian painter, lived from 1817-1900. painted a lot of boats and a lot of seascape-type pictures. he painted during a time period where it was popular for russian painters to go to other parts of europe (namely italy) and study.
Lots of dots... heavily influenced the way that I draw. I would put him and Dan Jurgens in the same esteem. They actually got me to shade in a completely different way, to give things a more smooth organic texture... as opposed to the traditional and mechanical method.
I loathe shading sticks.
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u2popmofo- I'm sorry, but he enjoys ass-kissing from other people as well
red x's. well i did try to post some pictures i found of aivazovsky's work. and i went to so much trouble to try to figure out how to spell his name in english in order to search for those