I have seen some incredible photorealism while surfing the internet (unfortunately I couldn't find it again so this piece will have to do) and am always very impressed.

Banksy is an amazing artist, despite the illegality of his work. I'm not one for street art (I think graffiti is incredibly overrated) but his work is actually planned, thought about, and demonstrates artistic skill unlike just tagging.

Fernado Botero -- LOVE his art and his style, especially his massive rotund horse sculture.

I get a lot of inspiration from comic books. NOT manga. Straight up comic books. I am always thoroughly impressed with he shading comic book artists are able to get with just ink like in the Sin City series and in this series called RASL.

The Pixies are a band I often listen to while doing art. They are very....inspirational and...odd.