Dragonball X - Webcomic

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Dragonball X - Webcomic

Post by The__Meta » Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:09 pm

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Hello my fellow Dragonball fans, it is I... The Meta... Someone you've probably never heard of before! I am a simple DBZ weeb with a simple project I am working on. Pure passion project, I don't know why it never occurred to share my progress with you lovely peoples, but who knows... Mayhaps my OC will outplay my blatant fandom... We shall see!

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The project is simple! Create a webcomic based in the Dragonball universe based around an Original Character. SIMPLE, yet hard at the same time... A problem I faced early on was creating an OC that was both interesting and compelling for a main protagonist. What I have created is the lovely girl in the center of the picture, her name is Xiira. She is the daughter of Dabura. Fortunately for anyone who are already hating it, this was not the final iteration, it was going to be, but a setback made me reevaluate the whole thing.

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After practice and a redesign. My only issue being with this is that while I still love her look, Toriyama's style is *not* my strong suit, as you have probably been able to deduce thus far.

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After some thinking I decided that if I can't replicate Toriyama's style very well then I might as well just do my own thing! So, I abandoned the DBZ art style (blasphemy I know), so I tested designs and this is what I had come up with in rough. Very basic, very simplistic.

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Then I redrew it as a final and this acts as the final iteration of Xiira's design as well as a proof of concept *and* a show of my art style. While her curves are a bit exaggerated in places thats just the way my pen took me and thus, is what I would call my style. Its not too different from current styles, facewise at least. Bodies are very stylized. I have done some other sketches for aliens and the like, though I cannot show them I warn you that in my style I am stylizing them as well. Frieza in particular, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how people think of my style.

As you can see, I changed her outfit a bit. I took a step away from her original design as in my style it was too simplistic (as you can see in the rough draft) and I wanted to give her a more laid back outfit with the similar feel. I ditched the metal bra and went with a standard ab exposed shirt (to show off dem abs) and a jacket!

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And a little treat for people who like this design and play Xenoverse 2! With the help of a few amazing modders I was able to recreate Xiira as a roster character!

The mod is still a WIP, but it is useable! https://xenoversemods.com/mods/xiira

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Heres a face test for practicing angles and such.

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Heres a page from the comic, the font is my terrible handwriting, I intend to replace with an actual font, as what I have there already is simply for me to remember when I go back and add in the text pieces and speech bubbles and what not.

Thank you for reading and viewing my art! I hope you liked it. If you did and are interested in the webcomic I plan on uploading a few pages to my Imgur (https://thetruemeta.imgur.com/) every so often, but if you want the full webcomic experience I am working on a website specifically for it until then you can get updates and the webcomic when it comes out on my Deviantart (https://the--meta.deviantart.com/) which I will be posting each chapter as I finish them. This is a passion project so I don't have a timeframe for release, though it shouldn't be too long unless RL takes a bad turn.

TL;DR: OP is making a weeb DBZ webcomic based around their lame OC.

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Re: Dragonball X - Webcomic

Post by FoolsGil » Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:45 pm

Well, I'm never going to say no to another webcomic.

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Re: Dragonball X - Webcomic

Post by The__Meta » Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:30 am

FoolsGil wrote:Well, I'm never going to say no to another webcomic.
Thanks ^_^

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Re: Dragonball X - Webcomic

Post by ShadowBardock89 » Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:07 pm

So, what is the naming scheme here? What's the pun?
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=40715&start=20#p1439892
http://dba.bn-ent.net/character/barduck.html
https://i.imgur.com/86hOk5i.gif

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Re: Dragonball X - Webcomic

Post by The__Meta » Tue Apr 03, 2018 11:37 pm

ShadowBardock89 wrote:So, what is the naming scheme here? What's the pun?
For Xiira? No pun, though hindsight I could've done a pun... Could've done a pun name like Dabura or Buu... Honestly, as a DBZ nerd I am disappointing that I hadn't thought of doing that. There will be puns I promise! Somehow in the conception for Xiira I had forgotten that Dabura was a pun and forgot to pun it up... Embarrassing. >.<

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