How to Draw Dbz Art Style

I draw DBZ characters all the time, I was gonna draw one in a minute after I do this. Here's how I draw.

Start with deciding the position of the face, wether it's facing at you, or from a 3/4 view, if it's a 3/4 view, one ebrow would be bigger, the one on the larger part of the face.

If you draw it facing you, it's easy to mess up to shape of the face, mainly the chin part, you have to draw the eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth properly first, then the cheek marks, then draw a line on either side, to make the sides of the face, and draw the bottom part of the face, then the ears. Now the hair, draw an invisible hair line, and use that as a guide to where the hair comes out from, I like to do a faint circle after I've done the face for the head, and go over it with the hair, having a good knowledge on how human hair is would be good, because it similar.

Now the tester, turn your page around and look at your picture from the other side, this is the best way to tell if you've bent the chin or messed the shape up. It took me long to perfect this.

I can draw most characters off by heart, I just used to go mad sketching faces at school when I started getting into DBZ, my PC stopped working once, so I was drawing characters of the TV screen when it was on, trying to capture as many details before the scene finished. My drawings wern't good at first, but I kept on trying these off the top of my head pictures and noticed which parts I wasn't too sure on how they looked, and checked the next time I saw a pic of them, and slowly progressed and made my art better, copying, it's nice, but drawing the characters without copying is great, draw how you want, who you want, you also make less mistakes when drawing off by heart.

If you ever mess up a facial part while you're doing well, and the rubber won't do the job, never mind, since mostly the Z fighters are beat up, you can make it a mark on their face and do a few more to make it look like you meant it.

I still need to work on the body's, I'm gradually perfecting the figure, I only started with faces, DBZ is the first cartoon I drawn which has real people, so I need to practice.

I drew this a while back and posted it in a thread here, notice I messed the shape up on the face if you look properly.

BTW, the eyes shouln't be a problem, most look the same, Goku's super saiyan eyes can be made to look like Vegetas normal eyes, Goku's normal eyes are also the same for Gohan, Goten through alk their ages, Trunk is mainly Vegeta's face and mouth, chibbi Trunks eyes are more open.

Good luck.

How to Draw Dbz Art Style

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