User blog:Gundam Legilis/What's your fave artist?

Note: The following images and links are here for reference only. I am only showing them, to identify the style with the artist. If anyone is pissed about this, then I apologize. Really wanted to get this out ASAP, so I didn't plan enough time for that.

Hello everybody! Gundam Legilis here asking who your fave RWBY fan artist is. It could be on Pixiv, DA, in the Japanese fanbook, or even here on this wiki. Here are some of mine.

No. 1: Ian "Riftling" Thorne AKA 21as & Bloody-Rosalia (name unknown)

Okay, so Riftling is one of my all-time fave RWBY artists. His styles are currently based off of Tetsuya Nomura (of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and The World Ends With You fame), along with the styles of the late Monty Oum (the alternative poster), and Eileen "einlee" Chang (lead character designer, designed the very first RWBY poster). And guess what? His style is very accurate, and I mean scary accurate. Take a look for yourself.





Bloody-Rosalia also has roughly the same style, except for the addition of a highly detailed sheet based off of Velvet's contest entry. Here's an example, with Sapphyre's ref sheet:

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/rwbyfanon/images/5/55/Safmodel2.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20140804220936

I think quite a few people might mistake them for Monty and einlee there. And I believe that they consistently learns and study every last detail of these styles to become this good.

No. 2: Isaiah 'isaiahjordan' Amancio & lesupa (name unknown)

There's a reason why some time ago, quite a few creators commissioned for his work on their posters. It is because he can produce a wonderful rendition of Nomura's style in lead pencils. (You can see this on his Instagram @isaiah_amancio). And look at his piece of Team CIST:

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/rwbyfanon/images/f/f8/Team_CIST_Revealed.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131111005221

Lesupa's style is an adorable chibi style with thin lines for the lineart. The adorable-ness and the comedy has earned this artist a top spot in my books. (I'm really tired as of this writing, will update with a photo from Twitter or Tumblr). No. 3: Jason "TheRogueSPiDER" Santiago and User:ThanhnuFia aka Flora 

Another go-to guy for commissions, he brings in a style which is part Disney, part realistic, and part anime. In fact, his portrait of the RWBY ladies mirroring their VAs appeared in No Brakes.

Here's the style in a Team MLIT poster:

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/rwbyfanon/images/6/62/MLIT_poster1_fix.png/revision/latest?cb=20150217043235

However, I simply like the other styles better. And I'm not too keen on the Team CBLT poster - the outfits are fine, but personally some of the faces seem off compared to past works.

Then we've got our resident admin and artist Flora. It takes commitment to actually run this wiki and art on a constant basis. She's only outclassed by the top 2, but is still nevertheless, especially when her style involves cute, big eyed characters (they're really large, for "anime" characters), and ref sheets done in a simple style.

No. 4: Crazyfoxmimi & User: dcarthiq (names unknown)

Crazyfoxmimi has a style that's more looser, but singlehandedly manages to work on a few dozen teams, and work on a comic that updates quite frequently. That is awesomeness, with the very diverse color palette. Here's an awesome poster that illustrates basically everything in this artist's universe:

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Team-KAZE-HAPPY-2015-503876826

Dcarthiq's art style leans towards a Disney style, the reason why this artist is ranked lower is because of the competition. Still, the art is quite realistic to a degree. Team BRGD will show you why:

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/rwbyfanon/images/3/33/Brgdv2-2.png/revision/latest?cb=20140719044446

And that's all. If you have a fave, list your answers in the comments section below. Have a good one!

-Gundam Legilis