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How to Draw Goku
Front View
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Step 1:
Most Dragonball Z characters can be drawn using
these basic shapes and proportions. Dragonball Z characters all have
similarly constructed faces: they have large foreheads, slanted,
triangular eyes, and small lower faces. Once you see how the basic face
is proportioned, it should be easier to draw whichever character you
like. Begin by drawing a large, slightly elongated circle for the
forehead. Draw the lower half of the face and divide it up with lightly
drawn guidelines as shown. Notice that the lower half of his face can be
divided up into equal sections; the main horizontal guidelines are
equidistant from each other. Draw the slanted guidelines for the eyes,
and sketch the position of the mouth (which should be directly below the
guideline for the nose). Make sure all the guidelines are drawn lightly,
because you are going to erase them later on.
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Step 2:
Erase some of the unnecessary guidelines. Draw the
outline of the eyes, which are just blocky, angled trapezoids. Make sure
the bottom of the eyes line up with the slanted guideline you drew in
earlier.
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Step 3:
Next, sketch the outline of his hair.
The hair is very large and spiky; notice how it smooths out slightly on
the right side (our right, not his) of his head, though. Add more detail
to his eyes and ears. When drawing his eyebrows, make sure that they
rest directly above his eyes. Draw the nose and mouth next, making them
very small and close together. The nose should be sort of like a blocky
'L' or wedge.
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Step 4:
Next, erase all the guidelines. Add the shading
under his eyes and mouth, and add detail to his ears. Next, draw the
neck, muscles, and clothing. DBZ necks are usually pretty wide, so make
sure the neck starts just beneath the ears. Erase any unwanted lines and
clean up your sketch.
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Step 5:
Take your final sketch and color or shade it
however you like. Notice that the shading on his hair is very subtle,
and gives the otherwise flat spikes more dimension, so you know his hair
doesn't just go straight back like Ryoko's (from Tenchi Muyo), it kind
of sticks out in all directions. ^_^
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3/4 View
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Step 1:
Next, we'll draw the 3/4 view. These proportions
will work for other DBZ characters, too. Draw a large circle, then add
the lower half of the face and divide the shapes up with guidelines.
These are pretty much the same shapes as in the
front view, except they have been rotated downwards and to the side. The
3/4 view has less guidelines than the front view, but that's only
because adding them would be unnecessary at this angle. We'll only be
using the guidelines for the eyes, nose, and the central guideline that
runs from the forehead to the chin.
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Step 2:
Next, use the upper horizontal guideline to draw
in the eyes and eyebrows. Draw the nose and mouth, making sure to draw
the mouth very close to the nose. The features of the face should have
very sharp angles. Notice that while on the front view his nose looks
small, on the 3/4 view it is much longer and pointed.
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Step 3:
Erase all the guidelines. Draw the basic shape of
his hair, making it very thick and rounded. Notice again that the hair
flattens and rounds out on the right side of his head. Add his pupils,
draw in the eyebrow ridges above his eyes, and shade beneath his mouth.
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Step 4:
Erase all unnecessary lines. Add the detail in his
ears, and add shading to his eyes. I added a few light glares to his
pupils out of habit, even though DBZ characters almost never have such
details on the eyes. You can leave them out if you like, but I think
they look fine. Again, his neck muscles are very large, so start them
just below the ear. Add the rest of his muscles and clothes, then clean
up your sketch and prepare it for the final draft.
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Step 5:
Now that you have drawn his face, you can shade
and color it however you like. Notice again that the subtle shading on
the hair shows that it sticks out in various directions rather than just
going straight back. Make sure to try to include this if you shade your
picture.
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Super Saiyan Form
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Goku, like several other
characters on DBZ, can transform into a Super Saiyan (yes, that is an
accepted spelling, so stop bugging me about it). From what I could
discern from the internet, he has at least three or four different
forms, but I really don't have the patience to go through each of them.
The differences are slight, anyway, and if you know which features to
exaggerate, its not that much of a problem.
To draw Goku (or anyone, for that matter) in Super
Saiyan form, you'll have to make a few adjustments to his face, as well
as his hair. His head and body should be wider, while the face itself is
smaller. The features are more slanted and grouped closer together. The
lines of his face will be much more sharp and slanted, and his eyes will
be much more narrow. The chest and arm muscles are increasingly larger
and rounder for every further transformation. These adjustments can be
used on any Super Saiyan.
For the hair, basically just draw a series of
sharply angled, pointed spikes that extrude from his scalp. It helps to
draw the outline of his head, as shown in this picture, so you can tell
where the hair should go. It's easy to make it too big or too small if
you don't know where to position it. Even though it's spiky, make the
hair full and rounded, rather than just using straight spikes. All the
spikes should curve inward, not just stick straight.
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Here's what the hair should look like when the
guideline for the back of the head has been removed and the hair has
been shaded. I did a sloppy job of coloring the hair, though; the
shading should be much less rounded than it is in this particular
picture. You can look at other pictures of him on the internet or
elsewhere for further reference.
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