As always with me Zak Smith was a big influence in this project. He related to this project a bit more than usual however as a large amount of his work focuses punk and hardcore culture, based either in New York or California. His work has a DIY aesthetic which is associated with the culture he is working with.This is down to the rather rough way he uses ink to show texture and tone and how he uses slightly uncontrolled looking patches of acrylic here and there in his paintings: the hair etc.
The largely black and white nature as well as the aesthetic of the models themselves also adds to the punk, hardcore, subculture feel. All this largely influenced my work, not only for drawing and painting punks but for my work surrounding other subcultures where I took the same ideas and tweaked them to make the aesthetic and practice more suitable for whichever youth culture I happened to be dealing with at the time.
 (Source: http://therumpus.net/2009/01/the-rumpus-interview-with-zak-smith/)