We all love Akira Toriyama’s art, right? Especially the cover art where he draws a bunch of chibi vehicles, dinosaurs and whatnot. I had so much fun creating my Toriyama-riffing gift for Secret Santa (hi @sleepysmiles) that I would like to do some more. But I don’t want to do it alone. In this place, I’m surrounded by people who have so much creative juice that they are perspiring.
Take a gander at Toriyama’s cover art and find one that speaks to you. Do whatever you want to make it your own. I’ll start with this rendition of Dragon Ball #13. I was listening to Radiohead as I do every few months, so Thom Yorke’s mug came to mind. I feel simpatico with the man’s eyelid droop. I hope mine gets that severe as I age.
No, this is absolutely perfect. The cover prompt is a nudge for people like me who work from sources. What you drew is a cover for a volume that just hasn’t been written yet.
I liked the animals hanging on the car so much, I added more to the frame. I’m not considering this finished until I try to give it a watercolor wash, but I realized tonight that I don’t have brushes or watercolor paint in my apartment…Enjoy this version before it gets mutated into something else.
I tried to make a Toriyama van but it wound up looking like a Minion. The blushing parking lights helped just a little. I gotta say I think I hate sculpey. It’s this awkward middle ground between the sagginess of play-doh and the smeariness of modeling clay. I tried to roll a little ball in my hands and it just disintegrated into yellow paint. Failure is just as valuable as success.
i will explore this prompt later but just wanted to gush about how wonderful Toriyama cars & machines are, they are exactly how i want to draw vehicles, so pleasantly shaped and compact and the characters always look so natural driving them!! (And they look good while riding big chocobo like dinosaur critters too! he also loves drawing that. And he’s good at drawin dinos!!)
That and his fashions are the most underrated aspects of his style, i love how many of his covers and one shot illustrations are his OCs driving/riding somewhere, dripped the fuck out
Thank u so much for gracing me with Skids the Skunk, minty they have a place of honor on my fridge
these are so fun to draw I wanted to do another one. he’s the master of foreshortening. drawing a car, head on, that is 99% curves like the shelby cobra, with so few lines, is so good. I thought this was going to be simple but no not actually.
