colours

• warm and cool purples (as in almost blue or almost red)
• warm and cool greens (as in almost blue or almost yellow)
• (off) grays

visual art mediums

• stop motion animation
• mixed media animation
• digital art that mimics traditional art
• traditional art
• sculpture
  • wooden / stone sculptures
  • ceramic pottery
• fiber arts
• fashion
  • kei / gyaru styles and similar
  • costuming (myself)

artists

• louis william wain
• rosina wachtmeister
• sulamith wulfing
• svetlin vassilev
• thores shibamoto
• tomomi kobayashi
• yoshitaka amano
• yoshiyuki sadamoto
• most of the art i like is here

instruments

• keyboards
• chordophones
• 21st* century machines
  • all of wintergatan's creations
  • tim meeks' harpejji
    • the predecessor, john starrett's starrboards
  • allan gittler's gittler guitar
• dj/sound equipment

music theory/similar

• indonesian gamelan
  • the concept of kotekan
• chinese opera vocal styles
• complex chords