#it's dbz art but still LOL

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Drawing is genuinely the only thing in my life that can push past the giant cloud of "blah" that constitutes my feelings, the only time I can actually get in touch with feelings I normally can't put a finger on, the only thing that makes me feel alive

Genuinely believe I was put on this earth to make art

[teunip]

Words cannot describe how foundational and impactful Akira Toriyama's art was for the little me and many, many others. Dragon Ball gave me the spark to become an artist and keep practising to become an even better one. There's so many fond memories I actually cried while drawing this.

Thank you Toriyama, for everything!

[s735]

8/15/23

[iggyredacted]

The face of shame

I tried to make him have an 0 face. He always ends up looking disgusted with himself.

[lines-and-lies]

Nitro

[furikass]

I love this beautiful space prince and his sassiness 👌

[mgmm-shifts]

SHIFTER INTRO

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HELLO

I'm new to shiftblr, so I wanna introduce myself :)

PSA: If you stalk my account and see my past reposts and likes, no you didn't lol. This account is hello old and I'm trying to cleanse it. I had an intense sports phase when I was 14-16, dw bout it...

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About me:

☆General: I'm Mel, Leo, She/Her. I moved from shift tok to here! I want to find fellow shifters and continue my journey! I don't really have shifting friends so I figured here was a good place to find some mutuals :) ☆Shifting journey: The first time I shifted was in 2022 (or 2023, it was winter i don't remember which month) and it was by accident. I had no idea what shifting was oop. Since then I've, although I hate this term, "mini shifted" a few times since, but my mentally has definitely gotten better! I have been lucid dreaming since I was a kid, so when it happened I knew immediately it was different and I was so confused lol.

☆Main Dr: Attack on Titan (My script is pretty diff than canonverse, practically no titans left, no war, peacetime, much more modern times etc. I will explain script in a later post if ppl are interested) I had other DRs like JJK but lost interest in that (in the show in general tbh) and DBZ (the one I shifted for the first time ever to). Don't ask but it existed lol. Still love the show though, it was my first anime 🕺🏻. Tbh I'm just focused on my main one, I may make one with L Lawliet in some way eventually. Otherwise I haven't really been inspired to have anything different. ☆Hobbies: I love to draw! I haven't really began my dive into digital art (it's on my to do list) so I mainly stick to sketching and occasionally painting. I'm also trying to learn Japanese right now which is quite hard but I love it. I could already speak Italian and English and they're soooo different. Aside from that idk, I'm currently in school so I don't have time for much. I write some fanfics from time to time and read (manga/books) or play xbox occasionally. I also love to shop and collect anime shit lol. ☆Fav shows: -Grey's Anatomy -AOT -DBZ -Death note -Chainsaw Man -Nana -Gossip Girl -Spy x Family (I'm currently watching but still at the beginning, so spoilers pls) -Demon Slayer -The Vampire Diaries (a good fall classic) -Friends -Alice in Borderlands (where tf is s3 oml) -JJK (I've watched, used to be obsessed with, now I'm pretty disinterested but always love me some Toji lol) -Jersey Shore (a true italian-american classic 😩) -JoJo's (also still at beginning oop) -Hunter x Hunter (i stopped mid way) -Black Clover (there seems to be a theme here... stopped mid way) There's prob more I just can't think rn ☆Why I shift?: Tbh, since I was a kid I would make DRs without even understanding what that was. I am a very creative person with a huge imagination (thanks ADHD woo) so I've always wanted to be a part of these realities I would make as one does. I've also struggled with a history of depression and to be candid, my home life sucks. I've done a lot of maturing and mental work on myself so I'm a lot better now, so my reason is not necessarily for an "escape" but like yeah. I don't like wording it that way because I feel as though it's a bit dangerous to just completely toss your CR aside and rely on shifting as a end all be all fix, but if that's not the case then escape away :) I've been on the other end of that journey before so I'm speaking on behalf of my experience, but that's just what has worked for me and my mental health personally. As long as you are happy and healthy, do your thing <3

Okay this is already long af but if you made it this far, thank you🥹. Now that I have started up this page, I hope to interact with you guys and post about my DR and shifiting journey! Also most importantly...

WE WILL ALL SHIFT TONIGHT :)

[galexibrain]

Something that bugs me a little is the insistence that Gohan actively hates to fight period. Bc that's not true!

(This ignores everything that happened outside the original manga/the DBZ anime)

Yes, he lacks Goku's or Vegeta's laser-focus on all things martial arts, but let's be real, all half Saiyans do. Goten & Trunks sure have more passion for fighting than Gohan does but they're much more "human" about it than their dads and have other interests in their lives too.

But while Gohan originally became a fighter out of necessity and had little choice in the matter there are instances when he clearly shows that he is totally capable of enjoying himself in a fight.

For once there's obviously his fight against Cell - once he snapped his "Saiyan side" took the lead and he was enjoying himself a little too much (and ruined it, like a good Saiyan must).

But it also becomes clear in the early Buu arc. Yeah, initially he's not rly interested in the tournament and wouldn't have participated if not for Videl forcing him.

But once he was in he was in. He even got a little annoyed by Videl interrupting his training, and he did want to win. If he really hated it so much he could have entered with the plan of failing the preliminaries, or losing in the first round. But the thought never crossed his mind. I think if you'd suggested he botches it deliberately to get out of it he'd been horrified.

He was going to have fun with it! I think his most "Saiyan" trait is that he's a bit of a showman lol. He likes to be flashy! And he likes to boast! He COULD have just used a plain costume and mask to hide hid identity but nope, Great Saiyaman it is! He likes being seen and being known as a crazy strong superhero. Maybe he'd have been into pro-wrestling with their fancy costumes and showmanship

Even before things went off the rails at the tournament and Buu arc was set in motion he was ready to go. And yes his crush on Videl might have served as motivation: "haha cool she won't be disappointed if someone beats her dad! (I can date her if I beat her dad)" -> he WOULD have thrown Satan out of the ring if he'd gotten to fight him, no questions asked.

And once he, Goku & Vegeta are in Babidi's spaceship it gets even clearer: now, no one is forcing him to fight. Ofc Gohan always wanted to fight when it was necessary, even at 5yo he wouldn't stay home, he made it very clear that he was going to Namek.

But while they were going through the levels in Babidi's ship this still wasn't a serious thing. Pui Pui and Yakon were a joke for them. Vegeta was getting pissed, ok, but aside from that it was just fun and games for them, and Gohan could easily have said "nah have at it you two, I'm sitting this one out" but never once did he so much as consider NOT taking part in rock-paper-scissoring it out to decide who gets to go first.

He was eager to fight Dabra! Dabra told them to take him on 3:1 and Gohan flat out told him "no way, this is MY fight!". And if Vegeta had interfered with that fight to end it quicker I'm 100% sure Gohan would have decked him in the face and told him to fuck off. (Maybe that would have cooled Geets' mood a little lol.)

The problem isn't that Gohan hates fighting from the bottom of his heart. He doesn't. The problem is he grew up with a dad who was 100% a fighter and a mum who was 100% into education, and he didn't find a balance. He didn't even know that might be an option! He thought he'd HAVE to choose one thing, and one alone, and so he chose education.

Who could have taught him otherwise? Maaaaybe Piccolo (post-reunification with Kami), but tbh I think he didn't want to give Gohan the feeling he had to fight. I think Piccolo feels a little bad for putting 4-5yo Gohan through the wringer so much.

Like idk. Let my boy be both. Let him have Goku's legacy as well as make his own!

(I've read about Dragon Ball Online a little and tbh Gohan writing a book on ki and making it widely known? Perfect. I love it. Best idea ever. Probably the best thing that happened to DB since the original manga and Z anime ended. I am accepting this as canon 100%.)

[luukka]

Okay this has NOTHING TO DO with anything I've done before but I love her too much, meet her

Meet Mitra, my DBZ oc 💕

She's so cute 🥺❤️

this is also very much a self insert lol

Dragon ball, my life really, I love the universe and even the humor (except a few exceptions) still makes me laugh. Did you know that Dragon Ball was part of the reason France is SECOND biggest manga/anime consumers in the world 'till today ?? Aaaah ! Butterfly effect 🥰 If I watched it more when I was young, I certainly would be doing some martial arts today lol

The coolest funfact I have is that my mom would've call me Bulma if she could that's so cool 😎 but noooo I couldn't have been cool and outgoing and funny, my destiny was to be an introverted obsessed with either old shows, weird shows or both 🤡 (better be happy I didn't ended up drug addict but I'm still young and life is full of surprises, Anyway)

Also I'm re-watching all Dragon Ball.

ALL. THE. FRANCHISE.

[nessguts]

Sending anonymously but I AM SO OBSESSED W/ THE WAY YOU DRAW VEGETA AND KAKAROT OMGG

Dragon Ball has a rlly hard style to replicate, that and sometimes putting characters into ones own style can be difficult, while still making them read as yknow that character but WOWOWOW I love the way u do it so much!!! Like wow that’s them!! It’s so good. That’s all ty

omg fjdkfj thank you this is ssooo sweet lol

to be fair i have been drawing dragon ball for nearly 9 years now so i’d hope by this point i’m at least somewhat good at drawing them fjskjf

i actually taught myself how to draw by drawing dragon ball stuff at a young age so i kind of feel as though dbz is baked into my style, often times when i show strangers my art one of the first things they ask is if i’m into any older animes lmaoo so maybe it’s not that i’m good at drawing dbz but instead its that its like all i know how to draw 😭

anyway, thank you so much you’re very sweet ^_^

[suiginmigasuto87]

"Inspiration: Thank You" Way back in high school, I would joke that I was an "artist". But in truth. I couldn't draw for anything. Or so I thought. One day, in an art class, I had an assignment to draw something on a piece of paper. Then transfer that drawing on to a canvas. I chose Vegito. Because I just started watching DBZ at the time. And I thought that the beat down that he gave to Buu was the best stuff I had ever seen. Lo and behold. By the end of the assignment, and much to my amazement. I found out that I could actually paint. I managed to paint a really decent Vegito. That is where my love for art started. On that canvas. And in time, I've only gotten better. Despite everything that life has thrown at me. Despite what I still lack. I've only strived to keep going. To keep getting better. This love for art started with you, Akira Toriyama Sensei. Thank you. For not only being my inspiration to keep going. But also serving as the light of inspiration for so many others across the planet. Rest in Peace. Lord knows, you've earned it. <3 The dude on the left is the older character that I created back in high school; Quick Silver. He was the result of my finding out that I could draw. This character's existence was what helped to keep that creative ball rolling. And yes, that is "Akirabot's" robot hand in the foreground. lol. This piece will be finished. I pulled inspiration from this: https://youtube.com/shorts/37YuRcR8Jqk?si=sz3mEDAwnSaUVTiw

[lmshady]

Why yes, I still do art on occasion, lol. So I've gotten into TCM the game and Johnny... Just Johnny. But for some reason I was compelled to draw him in the style of DBZ, so here ya go. Also shirtless variant because I hunger for his shirtless cosmetic to come out, PLEASE.

[untoldsoup]

1, 3 and 5 from the artist ask!

1. When did you start creating art?

I think like most artists I started drawing the moment I could get a hold of a pencil. I have always wanted to do comics, however. Even as a kid i drew a bunch of sonic themed comics, and then dbz comics when I got a bit older. I never really completed any big ones before, "change" is the first real big comic I consider completed. I wish I would have had the perseverance in the past to get through the hurdles and realize it's not as daunting as I thought all these years.

3. What are your favorite subjects to draw?

Always fandom stuff. I never really got into drawing original characters. The closest I get to ocs is things like gijinkas or AU characters. I have always been a big fan of gijinka stuff.

5. What piece of art are you still proud of to this day?

this shippy dbz one mostly because of how hard drawing freeza's pose was lol

[therealestidealist]

Ok im tired of reblogging that post lol

Listen, if someone is paid for their work and their work is recognizable enough to be properly credited (such as a dbz episode, which credits the studio and the artists), then that artist' art is being respected. They understand that while their name is not watermarked on every frame, the credit they receive is exactly where they agreed on it to be.

A freelance artist on social media is RARELY recognizable by that sheer number of people or audience. If you want to share their work, you need to make sure that they are okay with that. They do this for free, no studio to protect their rights to their work. They are giving you art to look at for free. If you want to share their art, the least you could do is ask permission and respect their answer, including the lack thereof. If someone does not answer, you should never assume its a yes.

If you can't find a way to credit them, and post it anyway, you are again assuming their answer, link or not.

The thing is, the other user pointed out that this artist not only has a tumblr and twitter, but they linked a post that showed them explicitly asking for people not to repost their work.... which you did. A small "x" link with no context is not proper credit. Their tumblr dms are open. Getting defensive and telling strangers who reblog the post that you're going to kill yourself, and then claiming that the same people are the ones telling you to do that is just. Wildly inappropriate, and huge overreaction to a situation where you could have easily just deleted the post.

The reality is that you simply could have tried harder to get permission, you didn't, and instead of listening to the people telling you how to fix it, you told them you were going to kill yourself, and accused strangers of being ableist when, not only is your neurodivergency none of their business, but they'd tell ANYBODY reposting art without permission to stop doing that.

No one is attacking you for struggling to understand- you're being criticized for doubling down and refusing to learn and fix the problem.

You're not trying at all to be accommodating to my situation. You say the way I credited the artist was not "proper". The parameters for this are undefined. I see art credited this way all the time. I have never posted art on here before, so I did it the way I've seen it done. You accuse me of "not trying hard enough" to get permission. In truth, I did not seek permission at all because I was not aware of any sort of standard of etiquette for this. Their twitter (where I found it) does not link to their tumblr (where they ask not to share art). Some artists mention in their bios not to share their art. Some artists say share with permission. Some artists do not specify their preferences. Given the broad variety of preferences artists have regarding the sharing of their art, how am I to have awareness of some commonly understood protocol for art sharing? As I understood it, sharing without credit is bad, sharing with credit is ok unless otherwise stated by the artist. Now I'm being told you're a monster if you share art with credit or that my crediting is somehow improper (no further questions asked)

Also, I removed the post when I was linked to the artist's statement. But I have since continued to be dogpiled in my notes and asks with all sorts of accusations. My issue is that I'm not being afforded patience to understand the nuances and complexities in how to share art. Even as you answer my questions you're doing so with an attitude and you still fail to clarify vague conditions of what's considered proper etiquette when there are numerous exceptions such that I cannot meaningfully understand the distinctions. Thanks to this, I will never share any art ever again. I guess it's fine for others to do so but not me. Idk

[doubleddenden]

So I started rewatching a bunch of anime and a couple of cartoons that used to air on tv when I was a kid, mainly so I could finish out anime I never did and overall refresh my memory from like... 2005ish lol.

Two of these are a bit of an odd choice admittedly, but since I'm already watching Dragon Ball Z Kai on Toonami and Super DB Heroes, I decided to round it out with OG DB and GT, both uncut.

Mainly because I want to remember GT apart from the Great Ape Baby and Omega Shenron fights from DBZ games that try to skim past it, and SS4, of course.

And I will say, I think I understand why originally, the US actually skipped a bunch of these episodes to get closer to Baby- later on rebranding them as "lost episodes" once the last episode aired. So much of the first four episodes could have been cut down to about 2, and they probably should have picked a bit more of an exciting way to kick things off.

But something I definitely don't remember is actually the pretty impressive backgrounds and progression through them that makes it feel more lived in, rather than still battle grounds that might get some budgeted traversal shots. It's weird because DB and DBZ kind of have endings or manga art that sort of exaggerate the world around them, but for GT it's actually not too far off so far.

But yeah, the slow pacing definitely does not help lol. I will say though, I think the original score suits it way better than the US Funimation version- Grand Tour is... neat, in small doses, and I do enjoy the instrumental version and quirks of that score, but original sort of captures the vibe of what they were going for originally anyway- that being sort of a callback to OG DB in terms of adventure, which I do think makes sense on paper. A lot of sense.

On the flipside, og DB just absolutely wins for the best dub opening for the series, including all of the dubbed substitutes. That guitar just can't be topped. It can't. That alone makes my decision to watch again all the more worth it.

[rhonuscorner]

Sleep deprivation and pain made me have one hell of a weird DCA-NMS-COTL crossover dream this morning and I'm still giggling about it, wtf

I don't remember much of the No Man's Sky part of the dream, but the part involving the DCA involved a survival game that had Sun as the playable character, complete with wire shenanigans and it was pretty awesome and weird (except for the part where I got Denied A Hug TvT by a Sun who was for some reason not wearing anything, don't you fucking judge me, it's dream logic 😂), and despite not really knowing anything about CotL aside from what shows up on my dash (thanks @bamsara though I'm not complaining lol), that part of the dream was also... very interesting.

I don't know how accurate it was to canon because again, my knowledge is extremely basic. I'm pretty sure Narinder getting the lamb to start a cult did not involve him beating the absolute bajeebus out of the lamb like it came straight out of a DBZ episode, but yeah, what do I know lol. Maybe it IS accurate. NO CLUE.

I do want to play this game at some point - especially after this dream - but I'm gonna resist. I don't want to lose my DCA hyperfixation anytime soon when I still have so much to write and draw, so for now I'm putting it on my wishlist and that's where it's going to stay for a good long while.

For now, I'm gonna write out the details of this dream for safekeeping so I can giggle over it later when I inevitably forget about it, pop some pain meds and hopefully finish some art today. @_@