Favourite Visual Artist
No living artists will be listed here. Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymous Bosch, Vermeer, Bruegel, Jan van Eyck, Georges Remi (Herge), Ernest H. Shepard, etc.
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Music of Tahiti/Hawaii/Pacific including J-pop and Enka; South African music-Mbqanga and Kwela; Mexican Ranchero & dance; Czech, Polish, Russian dance tracks; general bubblegum pop. Bert Kaempfert. Forays into Avenged Sevenfold & As I Lay Dying.
Favourite Books
Lanfeust, The King of Ys, Lear's Daughters, Wheel of Time, Knights of Black & White, West of Eden, Anna & The King of Siam, Discworld, A Door into Ocean, The Sentinel, Dragonriders of Pern, Tintin, Myth Adventures, Watchmen, DEN, etc.
Favourite Writers
Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Whyte, A.A. Milne, Marjorie B. Kellogg, Joan Slonczewski, Harry Harrison, Margaret Landon, Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Asprin, Arleston et Tarquin, Robert Jordan, etc.
Tools of the Trade
WACOM 22HD, Mac, Adobe CC, iPad, SketchBook Pro, SketchBook 3 Mobile, Wacom CS-500P, Sony DSC HX300, iPhone 5, Spiral Notebook-Wacom Inkling, Prismacolor pencils, ballpoint pen, etc.
Other Interests
My galleries give a good indication of other interests; add to that 4.54 billion years of natural history...