(M/L) Good Bye Akira Toriyama! (Patreon)

Full-size pic in attachments, thinking if I should draw Goku for the end of the month pic.

I´m not going to Bullshit you, I spend all afternoon doing this, I just couldn´t help myself.

A friend informed me this morning at dawn, I didn't want to believe it but later I confirmed it.

It's hard to say something... I did have my love-hate relationship with Dragon Ball for a long time and there are more important and influential artists & works in my life but I cannot ignore the impact that this man's work had on me.

Since that fateful day when I caught  "Cooler's Revenge" on a local channel (illegally broadcasted) and saw Dragon Ball for the first time in my life and how this series arrived later with Sailor Moon and the Knights of the Zodiac, conforming "The Second Japanese Wave" and introduced me and several generations to the world of anime officially...

I used to draw blocky people until I was almost 10 and i took my first steps in improving my drawing and learning about anatomy by imitating Toriyama´s style and Dragon Ball.

Sadly, I don't have on hand one of my oldest drawings in life, which was precisely about Dragon Ball, to put here but I did want to do something as a little homage or something.

after all, here´s a testament to how much Akira Toriyama influenced my life:

 The character that gives name to my account: Gouki Kabuto (C), is the name of an O.C (a very important one) but very Few know that this character was first born as an attempt at a "manga self-portrait" in the same style of Japanese mangakas.

While I had another: the "ghost of discord/ Fantasma de la Discordia" (C).

but I wanted to try one more human looking, while trying to emulate what these artists did. My first attempt was basically copying the best-known avatar of Toriyama (the robot / Toribot) but then I was inspired by another of his best-known representations: the one with the mask and the glasses. Said Features would mark the birth of the character "Kabuto Gouki"(C) and its final design.