Other Artist Insperation

Dan Paladin originally stared as an animator on Newgrounds, creating flash games such as Sack Smash 2001, Chainsaw the Children, Dad n' Me and most notably Alien Hominid, later forming the Behemoth with Tom Fulp (the creator of Newgrounds). The Behemoth are responsible for making Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theatre, two very imaginative and unique games.

The mood of Dan Paladins art is usually very comic and chaotic, using bold lines and vibrant block colours as not too be realistic but more fun and expressive. Being digital artwork it is hard to say which program was used to create Dan Paladins artwork but all of it still has the same bold feel.

This artwork is done by a Japanese artist going by the name Hanokage, the manga artist responsible for doing the illustration for the 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' manga book series. The subject matter in most of this artists artwork seems to be more parody or 'fan art' than original subjects or characters.

The mood of this piece is very light and cheerful with the colours being mostly light or pale with not many dark colours there at all. The colours of everything actually move from yellow, in the bottom left, to red, to blue, on the right, this gives the picture a nice easy flow and doesn't make anything look too contrasting or out of place, it also makes the use of space seem more open because of everything fitting together, when in reality its quite cramped and chaotic. The lines used vary from being quite thick to being very thin giving some areas a much bolder look to make things like expressions and actions stand out more.

This artwork is done by Dan Mumford for the album 'Abandon Ship' by Gallows.

 This is a very cluttered and chaotic piece of art with lots of thick lines breaking up the singular colours of everything. The subject its self is quite grotesque and vicious but the bright colours and thick lines give it a slightly cartoon like feel and overall sharpness and punctuallity. This artwork was origionaly scetched and outlined with pen before being coloured and edited on Photoshop.