Who was the artist who did a lot of the official 90s artwork

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:37 pm

Things like this:

He had a distinct style, most apparent in the way he draws ears.

DragonBalllKaiHD · Post by **DragonBalllKaiHD** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:14 pm

Pretty sure that first image is Yamamuro's.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:29 pm

I seem to recall this coming up before, and nobody having any answers. I'm a huge fan of this style.

kei17 · Post by **kei17** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:31 pm

I've been looking for the name of this artist, but I still haven't found it out yet.

DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:Pretty sure that first image is Yamamuro's.

No, it's not.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:49 pm

DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:Pretty sure that first image is Yamamuro's.

Looks too pointy and angular to be Tadayoshi's.

UpFromTheSkies · Post by **UpFromTheSkies** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:42 pm

Someone should write to TOEI and ask who the artist is, maybe they'll respond.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:43 pm

It would be hilarious if it was the same guy who does FUNi's art and the art on those energy drink cans, only his art has gone down the drain.

InfernalVegito · Post by **InfernalVegito** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:44 pm

I absolutely love this style. Everything looks so "stable" for the lack of a better word. Lines are really thick and the lighting is great.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:46 pm

I like the shading and the way faces are drawn. It has a lot of depth and style to it. I also love the image composition. It looks like each drawing had lots of thought behind it, unlike these days when most official Dragon Ball art looks lazily cut and pasted.

kei17 · Post by **kei17** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:17 pm

Metalwario64 wrote:It would be hilarious if it was the same guy who does FUNi's art and the art on those energy drink cans, only his art has gone down the drain.

I know that's supposed to be a joke, but that's impossible.

Metalwario64 wrote:It looks like each drawing had lots of thought behind it, unlike these days when most official Dragon Ball art looks lazily cut and pasted.

Agreed. Good composition definitely is what recent official DB artwork lacks. Everything is so randomly placed in it.

Tatakae!!Ramenman · Post by **Tatakae!!Ramenman** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:20 pm

I wish it was required for them to credit the artist on these things.

DarkPrince_92 · Post by **DarkPrince_92** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:25 pm

I've always wondered this too. He's by far the best when it comes to DBZ promotional artwork. His style has much finer detail, than even Toriyama's work IMO. The new guy we have now... not even close to this.

I think this is the guy Young Jiji (AF fanmanga artist) tries to emulate.

kei17 · Post by **kei17** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:29 pm

DarkPrince_92 wrote:I think this is the guy Young Jiji (AF fanmanga artist) tries to emulate.

You sure have a good eye for art styles. I have exactly the same impression.

UpFromTheSkies · Post by **UpFromTheSkies** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:35 pm

Off topic question... is there an English translation of Young Jijii's Dragon Ball AF? That's the first I've ever heard of it, it looks very impressive.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:36 pm

That looks so much like the art I've seen on this one pixiv account, if I can find the account again, I'll post a link.

DarkPrince_92 · Post by **DarkPrince_92** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:40 pm

kei17 wrote:
DarkPrince_92 wrote:I think this is the guy Young Jiji (AF fanmanga artist) tries to emulate.
You sure have a good eye for art styles. I have exactly the same impression.

Thanks. Just recently graduated from a 4 year art college, I've been training so to speak.

kei17 · Post by **kei17** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:48 pm

Although I love this artist's style, its bigest drawback would be muscles looking stiff. Especially, bicepses are unnaturally stretched when characters are bending their arms. It's nothing compared to flaws in recent artwork, though.

Avenged · Post by **Avenged** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:34 pm

Is there not any high quality versions of old art like this? I havn't seen any at all.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:42 pm

Avenged wrote:Is there not any high quality versions of old art like this? I havn't seen any at all.

I've been doing lots of searching for the past couple of years, mostly through reverse image searching (which was the only way I found some of them), and I've amassed a lot of decent to high quality versions of a lot of old artwork. I'll probably share them at some point in the near future. There are still a lot out there that I can't find good quality versions of though.

MiniTokyo has a decent collection of high quality scans.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:45 pm

DarkPrince_92 wrote:I've always wondered this too. He's by far the best when it comes to DBZ promotional artwork. His style has much finer detail, than even Toriyama's work IMO. The new guy we have now... not even close to this.

I think this is the guy Young Jiji (AF fanmanga artist) tries to emulate.

The promotional art took a nosedive once Tadayoshi and Katsuyoshi stopped doing them. The new guy's stuff just looks so amateur.

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