Q4 Art Project

For my project I chose to study Akira Toriyama, the creator of the dragon ball series. By studying Toriyama, I had to create an art piece that either was an attempt at doing his own artwork just like him or making my own art but in his style, I chose the latter. I drew two African American warriors, powering up I guess, some distance away from a city. I meant for the picture to mirror Akira Toriyama’s characters of gohan and piccolo, well their relationship. My taller and more muscular character was supposed to be my smaller characters teacher and mentor, like piccolo is to gohan. By the taller character being older, I decided to give him grey hair as well. I wanted to depict my characters as African Americans because they’re are very few in dragon ball. This also connects with me because I am African American and I really see my race and culture in the anime style. In my artwork I used a pencil, micron pen and crayons, nothing out of the ordinary. I drew my characters and city background with pencil first and then went over them with micron pen. I waited for it to dry a bit and then I erased it, so only the micron pen was left. I then colored my characters and the city landscape. I wasn’t to happy with the coloring but aye it can’t be perfect. Compared to my other work done for this class I think its relatively around the same level. I’m still not really impressed with my artwork for this class. My art outside of class is a lot better in my opinion. I also used the same old, usual materials. I think studying the anatomy of Akira toriyama’s characters and their eye placement is really important. I’m proud of the fact that I got the eyes right. So in conclusion, I wasn’t very proud but it overall I guess I am satisfied.