Title: Dragonball
Author: Akira Toriyama
Medium: watercolor, ink, pencil, copic markers
As a mangaka you must always have a favorite anime or inspiration, For many it is the artist of this drawing Akira Toriyama.Akira Toriyama was born on April 5th 1979, not much is known about his early life, however it's known that he debuted in 1979 with the story Wonder Island, published in Weekly Shonen Jump. After that what really began to make him famous and known in the manga world was his manga and anime series Dr. Slump, originally serialized weekly in Shonen Jump from 1980 to 1984. In 1982, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Dr. Slump for best shonen or shojo manga series of the year. After that he then produced the work that's being show cased here Dragon ball. Although dragonball is not my main inspiration, i cannot deny the force of it, the prescence it has throughout not only Japan, but the world. People who haven't even heard of manga, and anime in thier entire lives know what Dragon ball is. It's just argubly the gretest manga ever made, along with Naruto in my opinion. Although i'm not too big of a fan on the colors Akira used on this. i think the overall drawing is fantastic. An important thing to do in anime is to give your readers looks and expressions that clearly give your character's life and feeling. that's nicely portrayed here in this drawing. Like i said i'm not a fan of the colors. but some colors that do give this picture credit is the way he colored and shaded the clouds. LOVE how they appear, definitly wanna give a simular feel for my style. Although i do feel as if Mamashi kishimoto, creator of Naruto, and Oda Eiichiro creator of One piece come close. I don't think there is anyone who will be able to give us what Dragonball did. I see Dragonball as the Launching point that brought anime and manga to what it is today, and without it Anime and manga would never be the same. Even though it's not my favorite! i loved it nonetheless, and recognize it as the greatest manga of all time.
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