Art styles come and go, but one absolutely beautiful style that will always remain close to my heart is that of the olden day shoujo mangas.

Takahashi Macoto is an illustrator who is the absolute master of this style, and whose illustrations I can look at forever. Hopefully, they can inspire you too:

Just take in that absolutely amazing sense of detail in images that are still easy to read and quite simplistic; it’s so inspiring to see what you can do with so “little”. Not everything has to be photorealistic all the time!