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No matter where this is being posted, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? The long and short of it is that over the last few years, I went from having a job with a ton of downtime to jobs with varying degrees of less downtime, to one where I had downtime I couldn’t effectively use. Currently, my situation is one where sometimes I’ll have a lot of downtime I can effectively use. Anyway, absurdly late as it is, this is my tribute to one of my heroes as an artist, Akira Toriyama who passed nearly a year ago. Here’s a breakdown: In the first panel, we see a version of Goku who is intended to be the ultimate incarnation of him. I mixed elements of his clothing from Xeno Goku and Capsule Corp Goku (from Super Dragon Ball Heroes). He also wears the colors and symbol of Zeno from Dragon Ball Super. His hair is a mix of Super Saiyan 4 (from Dragon Ball GT) and Ultra Instinct (from Dragon Ball Super) with a hint of the colors from Zeno’s face. In the second panel we see the Toribot character that Toriyama used to represent himself in his works. Panel 3 shows the Toribot character revealing that he is Toriyama himself. Panel 4 shows Goku reverting to the original version of himself as a child at the site of his creator. The panel is an homage to the moment where Goku discovers his Grandpa Gohan has been brought back to life for a day in Dragon Ball. Panel 5 is an homage to the moment where Goku hands the 4-star Dragon Ball to his descendant Goku Jr. from the TV special Dragon Ball GT: A Hero’s Legacy. The final panel of the first page features Arale from Toriyama’s first incredibly successful manga Dr. Slump. Here she is breaking the 4th wall and literally pulling to edge of the page to see what is next. This is the type of stuff Toriyama would often do in his work. The first panel of the second page features King Kai, Goku’s parents Bardock and Gine, and Launch. Here I’m referencing a running joke in Dragon Ball Super where Goku doesn’t use opportunities to wish King Kai back to life after inadvertently causing his death; fandom discussions of Goku wishing back his parents; and Launch being a forgotten character whose name in Japan is actually Lunch. If you look carefully at the back Launch is holding you can see the somewhat obscured logo to “Spacey’s�� a running gag from the Youtube Dragon Ball Z reinterpretation of Dragon Ball Z abridged. Finally, in the last panel as Arale pulls on the edge of the page again we see Crono from Chrono Trigger, the legendary RPG which Toriyama provided character designs for.

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𝔖𝔲𝔟𝔧𝔲𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔄𝔠𝔱 1: a december to S̳̿͟͞u̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞n̳̿͟͞d̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞ Update

I couldn’t have picked a worse time to try and do another one of these drawing prompt based stories. Sadly, I’ll have to postpone this one indefinitely. I will keep the prompts I originally intended when I eventually get back to this. I have done a decent amount of writing & thumbnailing for the first several pages though.  

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𝔖𝔲𝔟𝔧𝔲𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔄𝔠𝔱 1: a december to S̳̿͟͞u̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞n̳̿͟͞d̳̿͟͞e̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞ Intro

Since 2017 I’ve been making stories. These stories feature my versions of pop culture characters from across media. To create these stories, I use various art and writing prompts from IG, Twitter, & Tumblr. 

In Marvel Comics there's a group of heroes that secretly made big decisions in the Marvel Universe called the Illuminati. If you saw Dr. Strange In The Multiverse Of Magic you saw a version of this group. This story is about an opposite villain group like this gaining the power to rewrite the Multiverse in their image.

This December story will be about our heroes failing, giving in, and giving up in various senses of those words. These are the prompts I’m using and the people behind them.

12/01/23

IG

@shinigamidragonstudio #Drawcember #Drawcember2023

1) Honor

@storyofellysion @madmariart #ilcircolodellartico #ilcircolodellartico2023

1. Christmas tales

@sofiolart #sofiolartadventcalandar #sofiolartxmas2023

1. FLAKES

@nina.clausonet @yaelhofri @fiorellaannoni

@catiabart @galitskaya.illustration @yetiglesias @polina_caprice @angelina_bambina_dsgn @moody_illustrations

#wonderfulwinterweek

Dec 1st - Ear Muffs Snow Leopard Candle

@aga.pilot Twitter @agapilotart #christmaswithaga

1.SNOWFLAKE

Tumblr

@angelgalchicha #dddrawcember23

1. First Holiday at the Nelson’s

@hurtcember #hurtcember2023

1. Astraphobia

@theprompfoundry #decadencember

1) Fine clothes

@whumpcember #whumpcember2023

Day 1: Fever

@ogdoadfates Burns/injuries/Whump Prompt list

"Oh my god(s), are you alright!?"

Subtle 'I Love You' Prompt List

Person A cleaning Person B's house/room for them.

@unboundprompts Responses to Being Punched

"What the shit, dude?"

@silcoitus Hurt/Comfort Prompts

"I didn't know where else to go."

@extraordinarily-ordinary-writer Prompt List #1

Your task was simple: Kill the target and take care of the kid, too. You may have misunderstood the last part…