In Search of the Dragon Balls / Fan-art.
What's up my people, today I want to show you a little Fan-Art about Dragon Ball Z and in this case it's about Bulma; the truth is that I had a long time wanting to do it because in my opinion I find it very easy to create female characters and Bulma is undoubtedly one of the most iconic of the entire Dragon Ball franchise. This time I decided to create an illustration in my own style about Bulma in the planet Namekusei (Namek) but in a semi-realistic way.
PROCESS
I have always been a fan of this great anime franchise and as you know I already have some experience creating characters of it as at the time I drew Android # 18, so I have a clear idea of how to create the sketches to work on them and in this case I just concentrate on creating a somewhat youthful woman with short hair and rounded shoulders.
The application of the colors was not so complex and I focused on using colors from my own color palette to give a more personalized touch, in this case I started with pink colors to build a much softer, stylized and above all feminine skin. For details of the face I stuck a little to those of Bulma's character, but with a very intense blue along with bright tones and added a little color to the lips for a more realistic touch and in this case the pink colors seemed appropriate.
The next step in the painting process was to create Bulma's costume, ever since I was a kid I thought this costume looked pretty cool being a space travel costume and I finally got the chance to illustrate it. I started with a navy blue tone for the lower part of the suit that covers the character's arms and then in a new layer I painted the upper part of the suit with a mustard yellow that I normally use to paint hair on my different characters; this was an arduous process as I wanted to achieve the highest level of detail possible on the suit and above all for it to look very cool.
For the hair I decided to create a very shiny hair quite similar to Bulma's on the planet Nakek, but I had to edit a lot the light blue tones to get a slightly different color to print my personal touch to this drawing; once I managed to create a good base for the hair and the strands of hair were much easier to achieve with the watercolor brush in a reduced size. The next thing I did after finishing with the hair was to create the Dragon's radar with which the characters look for the Dragon Spheres; the gray tones together with the bluish whites helped me to give a quite realistic look to the radar.
Finally, and to give some additional context to the planet of Namekusei (Namek) I created a sort of open scenery with rocks, bluish mountains and a super super super green sky with several lighter colored clouds floating around the sky.
MATERIALS
- Sai Paint Tool Program
- Huion inspiroy h610 v2 tablet
Well my people, that's all for today, thank you very much for coming here and for watching the process of my drawing; I'll see you in a next work.
