For information, I work with colored pencils, brand Conté Evolution. These pencils are for kids. They are not made of carbon and wood, so they are more solid, and you can bite them without hurting yourself. They have also a weird feel to them, you need to press harder to put the colour , which suits my non-refined style.
Also, you can mix the colours together to give this shading effect. Oooohhh, I gave my secrets away. Oh well.
Then the drawings are mine. The characters are not inspired whatsoever. They are MINE. I created them with my brain (?) and my little hands.
My influences drawing-wise are mainly Maëster, Tome, Gazzotti, and probably some others on a subconscious level.