Artist: Takeshi Obata(小畑健)
Piece: Hello Baby(up), The Shadow of a Interrogator(down)

Takeshi Obata is a comic author and novel writer, whose art works has a lot of modern style figure. To me, he would be the most influential artist to my work, for I tempt to imitate his figure most of the time, and enjoy looking at his art, rather than reading them. His skills are really realistic, and get an interesting perspective towards face. Apart from his drawing career, his painting are less cartoony than these two, but sadly I cannot download any pictures from his Japanese Blog.