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[Ma Junior Family]

Did Piccolo and Chi Chi ever interact in DB? It would be interesting to see what she thought of him. On one hand, he's like a father to Gohan, but on the other hand, he was the one who taught Gohan to fight. Gohan didn't become the scholar Chi Chi wanted and Piccolo is partly to blame.

glee-chan responds:

I believe her opinion of Piccolo throughout most of the series was that she still associated him as the demon king. But during a filler episode of DBZ where Goku/Piccolo/Gohan were training for the Cell Games, she seemingly forgot about that and just treated him as a freeloading guest who needed to earn their keep. After that the anime really didn't have much interactions with the two. They'd be in group scenes, but ChiChi by that point was a walking meme and not a character so her purpose was to yell at people. In the manga Toriyama only remember she exists when it came to Gohan. I can't recall any scenes where they are together (other than the tournament where she, Goku, and Piccolo Jr fought). She did yell at Kuririn about allowing Piccolo steal Gohan after Raditz and that might be the only connection between the two there. To be honest, Toriyama wasn't all that interested in ChiChi other than to do nagging wife / overbearing mom gags. I think the only female characters he actually considered as actual characters was Bulma and MAYBE Number 18 and Videl (both of which he forgot when their usefulness ended - which is why they just sort of became wives to the important characters). So... just Bulma? lol.

[Dragon Quest Hotties.]

Toriyama did like him a good bunny girl outfit. This style really does suit you, do you still find it as difficult as when you first did those Chrono Cross drawings?

glee-chan responds:

It's not that hard now, but since I like drawing girls and Toriyama didn't... finding references for poses/hair/costumes is a nightmare.

[Dragon Quest Red Ladies]

I always love when you do Dragon Quest art, because it's some of your best. I don't know if it's just because the original designs are that good, the style just fits your wheelhouse or you like the art so much you go all out on it, but it's always impressive. I've always wanted to try these games, but have no time to game or gaming system.

You are right about the girls all having a certain design motif, but hell if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I do like how you got so much personality into the faces. Aira looks like a sly hellraiser, with that devilish grin. Geruda is giving off definite your pissing me off energy, she looks like she takes no shit. Oruneze looks calm and confident, then again if I could swing an axe that big, I'd probably be pretty calm. I don't know anything about these girls, so I'd be interested in seeing how close I got to their personalities based on your art.

Now the real question, which one is your favorite?

glee-chan responds:

Design wise, I think Geruda (Red) is the best one. I also like Oruneze's (Desdemona) look, but really don't like her huge axe and you know my thing with red-heads, lol. I will say that while I like these two the best, they also were a bitch to draw/color because there's SOOOO much line detail. Toriyama, by that point, didn't care about how designers had to add that much detail into the games. He just did what he wanted. My guess is that he would be giving an outline of a character (maybe even a rough sketch as that happened for the monsters) and he'd just go ham. Sometimes he took the suggestions and other time he had fun. When I look at his character designs, I see a guy who just having fun make characters and not caring about the technical aspects of it. So it's more of an illustration than a character design. It's up to the model makers to figure that stuff out. And in fact, if you look at the models in the games, you can see some simplification or proportion corrections.

[Raven's Tongue]

Did Raven always sport those types of earrings or are you sneaking in your love of Egypt? Are you going back to your first love Raven to try and get some of your mojo back?

glee-chan responds:

At first I thought I'd post this on that other page, but then I realized I have to draw another picture this weekend for the Glee pages, and after the week I had I don't know if I got it in me. So it went here. But yeah, Raven was an attention seeking measure that I was too lazy to follow up on.

[Gul Dukat]

I think you're spot on with the character design working well in Akira Toriyama's style. I would have thought they were some background character from when Goku was putting about in the afterlife. Seems like you've gotten out of your artblock, unless these are all premade drawings you had saved.

glee-chan responds:

I'll admit forcing myself on drawing this and the other pics I've done this week. I'm still in that slump. I guess I'm desperately trying to reclaim my hobby but so far I don't feel the joy I used to.

[Raven as The Crow]

I don't know if I ever told you this, but the original Crow comic, is my favorite comic of all time. The ones that followed, unfortunately never recaptured the magic of the first series. Even ones written by O'Barr don't have the atmosphere of the original. The trailers for the new movie do seem to understand the balance between the murderfest that is the Eric on the rampage, with the softer moments between him and Shelly, that give the reason for the violence. Even the original Crow movie didn't really get that part. You have to make people really love Eric and Shelly, as much as they loved each other, for the tragedy of the story to bleed through all the violence. In the end all the killing the Crow does, will not change what Shelly suffered nor will it take away the deep guilt and hatred he feels towards himself.

Oh well enough of that, great Raven picture. You're so good at drawing her, almost like you've drawn her before.

glee-chan responds:

I've been watching a series called Reliving the War by Wrestling Bios that shows every Raw vs Nitro (plus ppv) and rating which show was the best that week. I'm saying this because Crow Sting was on my mind and Raven joined Nitro a few episodes back. Soooooo thats how we got here.

[Freeza and Some Losers]

You mean Baby isn't the best Dragon Ball villain?! Knowing you, that background was likely what gave you the most trouble in this piece. I probably told you this before, but when I first saw Freeza, I thought he was a she and a dominatrix.

Are you going through a bit of art block? or just tired?

glee-chan responds:

Both, actually. I know you've heard me whine a lot about feeling defeated and unmotivated so I'll spare you the sob story again, lol. I did draw two pictures yesterday. I feel like I need to have Glee pictures and Crissey pictures (for all 10 of my watchers). So I guess I'm back to forcing myself. The thing is I feel like if I just stop drawing I'll lose my talent. So I keep chugging at it. I have a line drawing of Dragonball Gul Dukat and one of a sexy goth girl I want to fuck. Maybe I'll color this weekend or maybe next week. I don't know.

[Bikini Trek Girls - Refit]

What is interesting is how little you had to update this picture. It looks like you had to do a few changes to posing, though not very extreme and use lighter line weights. It is also nice to see you using this cute style, feels a bit nostalgic.

glee-chan responds:

I wanted to keep it similar but the same. I fixed some things from the original (like Tasha's hair and some of the girl's body proportions) but I didn't want it to be completely different. I actually did the line art last weekend. Coloring took all day today. 8-4 with a lunch break. That's usually my hours on a short day at work! But yeah, I really did love the original back then and it's honestly not too bad now - just unrefined. I do think the new one is superior in every way, but if it wasn't then I failed, huh? Anyway, I probably put too much effort into a project that most people either don't remember or don't care about, lol.

[Shocking Senshi]

Are you playing around with gradients and effects? I can't remember you using too many of those in most of your works.

glee-chan responds:

For the body "sparkles" I used a pulled image of sparkles and made it semi-opaque so the true colors I painted underneath would shine though. I also changed the colors to the sparkles for each girl to match the colors I wanted. For the lightning I drew it in black, made several copies, changed the copies to white and blurred them. Then for the crisp black lighting I selected and used that mask to delete the middle of the white blurred ones. I also had a blurred black lightning's visibility really scaled down so there was some darker contrast in the now visible sections in the white lightning. (That probably doesn't make sense). Maybe there were easier ways to make those effects, but that's how I did it.

[Delinquent Girlfriend]

Man, some of these take me back. It's always great to see Manatsu art. She is still one of my favorite characters that you created. From Sukeban bully, to undercover cop, to doting sister over Kaori. Still think Sukeban Girlfriend was a great story too, showed that Manatsu wasn't all muscle, she was cunning too. I honestly thought you had drawn her more than this, I don't know why.

I remember drawing Manatsu's hair always being hard, but it was unique to her. I do remember that one pic you did of her and Megumi hanging out at night looking all dangerous. That was a really cool one.

glee-chan responds:

I think there is one other picture where she's with Yuuki but it's kinda bad. She also is in some massive group shot I did where I attempted to draw all my OCs (at the time) in one picture. No way I'd attempt that now, lol. I think the reason I don't draw Manatsu too often is because her hair is murder to draw and color.