Finally feel like I can say something coherent, so here goes...
I say this without a shred of exaggeration: Akira Toriyama was legitimately one of the most important creative figures of the last 50 years. His work, especially Dragon Ball, has influenced SO much even outside its own medium. Movies, TV, cartoons, comic books, video games, MUSIC... all of it. You can see his fingerprints in so many other works. Even now, artists and writers, voice actors and animators, musicians and game devs are all mourning him and reflecting on the impact he had on their own work. Titans of anime and manga are sharing in this pain.
The craziest thing about this though? The humility he had in spite of it. He was always reluctant to be in the spotlight, preferred to keep his head down and just work, never really worried that much about public perception of himself. Part of what makes him such an icon, man.
Losing him is losing a piece of our shared history. It's something that resonates deep in the hearts of everyone his work touched. This is just... such a loss. And I can't even begin to imagine what his family is going through right now. Praying for them all.
Rest in Peace to a literal Legend, an absolute Icon, and a personal inspiration in more ways than I could ever express properly.
don’t want to show *too* much stuff from development of these guys because a lot of it is either outdated and/or plot spoilers BUT i do have a lot of doodles sitting around on my ipad being unproductive :p
cafe drawing would be like drawing in public spaces, so any location really not just cafes. it allows you to draw things you wouldn't normally think of like whole rooms and observing all their nuances. all drawing is valuable for practice, and drawing non humans or inanimate objects will improve your fan art drawings as well !
then you can hopefully avoid the problem I had where I only ever drew headshots of characters for a long time and was too afraid to draw backgrounds :')
hii!! so i'm trying to learn how to draw & get better at drawing human figures, and i find it really helps me if i copy from previously drawn things in a more cartoony style rather than an actual photograph. would you be objected to me using a couple of your works as a study? i really only want to learn how to draw for fanart (ive been trying to get more into creating in fandoms rather than just reading fanfic etc.) and for art classes in school. do you have any tips on drawing/art/getting better at art in general? thank you soso much !!!
- robyn
oh yea no problem! idm people using my stuff for reference although it is still important to study from life sometimes
I'm mostly self taught and learned from drawing off my fav artists like badturquoise, pegibruno (hi Stas <3), Jamie Hewlett etc. but if you only copy from artists then you'll copy their mistakes as well without knowing especially when it comes to more technical stuff like anatomy.
what's improved my actual posing/human forms the best has been learning how to think in 3D and just doodling compositions until they look right. That and taking actual figure drawing classes in the college I'm in rn has been helping quite a lot. There's lots of free figure drawing classes and recordings online, and I also really love copying poses from the rollerblading videos posted by flowskate on YouTube. cafe drawing, and just really developing your observational skills is the backbone to developing your creative eye
really try to push your angles and forms to the extreme because perspective is very intuitive when you've spent the time really learning the technical skills as a foundation
I'll also be uploading more process stuff on YouTube and more specifics on ko fi soon, and if you have any questions (or anyone reading this really) feel free to hmu !
hii!! so i'm trying to learn how to draw & get better at drawing human figures, and i find it really helps me if i copy from previously drawn things in a more cartoony style rather than an actual photograph. would you be objected to me using a couple of your works as a study? i really only want to learn how to draw for fanart (ive been trying to get more into creating in fandoms rather than just reading fanfic etc.) and for art classes in school. do you have any tips on drawing/art/getting better at art in general? thank you soso much !!!
- robyn
oh yea no problem! idm people using my stuff for reference although it is still important to study from life sometimes
I'm mostly self taught and learned from drawing off my fav artists like badturquoise, pegibruno (hi Stas <3), Jamie Hewlett etc. but if you only copy from artists then you'll copy their mistakes as well without knowing especially when it comes to more technical stuff like anatomy.
what's improved my actual posing/human forms the best has been learning how to think in 3D and just doodling compositions until they look right. That and taking actual figure drawing classes in the college I'm in rn has been helping quite a lot. There's lots of free figure drawing classes and recordings online, and I also really love copying poses from the rollerblading videos posted by flowskate on YouTube. cafe drawing, and just really developing your observational skills is the backbone to developing your creative eye
really try to push your angles and forms to the extreme because perspective is very intuitive when you've spent the time really learning the technical skills as a foundation
I'll also be uploading more process stuff on YouTube and more specifics on ko fi soon, and if you have any questions (or anyone reading this really) feel free to hmu !