hii just wanted to say i love ur art so much, especially with how you use watercolor and the way it mimics Toriyama's style while still being your own.
After Goku flew off with Chichi after the big tournament, the TV show began reruns starting from episode 1.
That’s how Dragon Ball became the first manga I ever bought.
Back then manga were only available at book stores in busy train stations. I remember the paper smell in these stores and the Dragon Ball manga, always on a spinning type of shelf. Every time I had the chance to get a new volume I longingly looked at all the cover art of the manga I couldn’t afford to get just yet. Beautifully colored pictures, promising great adventures and protagonists I never saw before. Who was the purple haired guy, who was the girl on cover 36 and why was there a small Goku? Between reading I spent my early teens trying to draw the characters just like Toriyama.
10 years later I started to draw again after using a pen only ever for taking notes for way too long. I began with a cover art redraw of volume 38 because I wanted to have something nice to frame for my living room.
I stumbled into the Vegeta and Bulma fandom on accident after trying to find a better resolution of the manga cover for volume 32 online.
When I posted my first vegebul Toriyama redraw, I got compliments from fan artists that I admired immensely, wich led me to pursue my art hobby more seriously and made me so much better.
Whenever I start a new redraw I feel like I’m still having so much to learn from his work. Every line I have ever drawn was influenced by Toriyama.
I’m 34 years old and I have drawn Dragon Ball for more than 20 years at this point.
While I don’t know if I will still draw Dragon Ball when I’m 68, it will have a special place in my heart as long as I live.
I love drawing in the Toriyama style and Dragon Ball will always have a very special place in my heart, but I hope you all won't mind too much if I post some different things from time to time.
I especially like drawing *real* humans and frankly I do need to practice more to do them well, also working digitally does not really come easy to me, which annoys me to no end.
I also really enjoy using Copics for photorealistic work from time to time and plan on making a Pokemon first Gen series in the future.
I feel very privileged to have so many people follow me for showing the results of my hobby, thank you all so much 💜