Roby Dwi Antono is an illustrator and graphic designer from Indonesia, who often focuses on animals or children, or an eerie combination of both for her subjects. I really like the clean 'old fashioned' style behind Antono's work, and I would love to incorporate it into my own, but I know that due to my final piece being a comic, using this style would be too time consuming, and it would be hard for me to achieve this style as it is one I am not accustomed too. I also like the use of children, and how this plays on the way that children are often associated with being 'creepy', especially in the pop culture of today, with the biggest example being through horror films. I used Antono as inspiration within my own work as I focused my comic around a child, and followed similar body proportions as Antono through the idea of creating creatures or people with larger heads on thin, underdeveloped bodies.
I like how Antono distorts the features of the subjects of her drawings, and in several images adds extra eyes, which creates almost an optical illusion style. Antono inspired some of my ideas behind incorporating animals and inhuman heads (found in my studio notebook). If I had more time to develop these I would have also been interested in looking into Antono's style and adapting this as well.
