[Image] Akira Toriyama's Drawing Skills Are Seriously Impressive lololololol

It's way too easy to read.
You can tell what's happening at a glance.

People don't mention it much, but
don't you think it's amazing how the sound effects blend perfectly with the artwork?

>>2
I get it. Compared to that, "DON!!!" looks kinda dumb.

The color illustrations are seriously amazing.
It's all done with Copic markers, right? Analog and no room for mistakes.

>>3
Back in the day, everyone did it that way, lol.

>>3
Toriyama didn't use Copics.
When everyone around him started using Copics, he tried it too but couldn't get it right and stopped.
He used regular color inks for his color work.

There's no one who can draw sound effects like this.

What has Akira Toriyama been up to recently?
I looked it up and found out he passed away...
I'm shocked...

>>7
He was in the news a lot recently, wasn't he?

It's amazing even with almost no backgrounds.

The movement in the panels predicts the next one.
The next panel connects with the previous movement and leads to the next.
This continuous flow makes it stress-free for the reader and creates a sense of speed.

There are so many manga where I can't tell what's happening in the battles.
It might be partly my lack of understanding, though.

It doesn't feel like he's gone.

Oda should really learn from this.

>>15
Oda is really bad at drawing battle scenes.
Even when the mob explains everything from A to Z, it still doesn't make sense sometimes.

>>21
Early One Piece was really easy to follow.
But now, honestly, I can't tell what's going on.

>>21
Torishima was worried about that and hesitated to start the serialization.
At first, the editors kept it clean, but now it's out of control.

>>21
You only understand it after watching the anime.

>>15
I've been hoping for improvement for about 20 years, but nothing has changed.
Don't expect anything from him.

>>75
It's the editorial department's fault for making him a king.
The early days were good because he listened to the editor's advice.

>>76
Torishima said that he started the serialization on the condition that it would be easy to read.
But after the first editor left and the editors kept changing...

Nappa and Recoome have similar characters, don't they?

>>16
They're brothers, so it's somewhat expected.

What makes Toriyama amazing is his godlike eye guidance.

It's impressive how you can instantly grasp what's happening despite the intense movements and changing perspectives.
Sorry, but Jujutsu looks like a child's doodle in comparison.

It's easy to understand what's happening and how things are moving, so it must have been easy for the animation studios.
The problem is that the pacing is so good that if they animate it as is, they'll run out of source material quickly.
Demon Slayer and Jujutsu probably had to work really hard to fill in the gaps.

Akira Toriyama viewed each page as a poster.
He drew the panel layout and the overall image as a single poster.
That's why each page is so easy to read.
There was no other manga artist like him.

He used the trick of catching up to something he threw, like Tao Pai Pai.

It's amazing how he maintained this level of quality over such a long period.
What happened to Oda?

>>26
It's a common issue for manga artists to be afraid of having too much white space.
He likes to fill in the details, but the real failure is the editors not being able to correct it.

Is there anyone nowadays who can get away with using so many large panels?

>>45
Shibata Yokusaru often has only about four panels per double-page spread, lol.

There are many scenes where Toyotaro copies Toriyama's compositions, but it's obvious he's not as good.

>>50
I don't know much about drawing techniques, but the lines are just wrong.
There's no variation in the lines, and they're too thick, making it look bad.
It looks like it was drawn with a marker.

>>50
He's not bad, he's actually good, but to replicate Toriyama's art, he's lacking in sketching.
He hasn't fully grasped the skeleton and overall silhouette.
The lines are very neat, and with some serious training, he could improve a lot.

>>50
Compared to a genius, yeah.

With art this easy to understand, it must have been easy to animate.

I really love this.

>>64
I came here to see this.

It's amazing how he came up with the expression of energy.
You can clearly see how things move.

>>65
That was actually Otomo's invention.

>>65
Was there no such expression of trajectories before DB?

>>71
I don't think there was anything like Vegeta in >>1 where you can instantly see how he moved and where he put his strength.

People who can draw like this are going to disappear.
You can't get this vibe with digital.

Toriyama's reluctance to draw manga actually works in his favor.
Oda, on the other hand, loves manga so much that it ends up being a mess.