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Description This is my entry to the design-a-character group, where we had to re-imagine Goku from dragonball z. You can find details here: [link]

Anyway, all I needed was an excuse to draw DBZ fanart, as although it is a guilty pleasure of mine, my gallery is lacking of good dbz stuff. In all honesty, I didnt have ENOUGH fun with this, and wanted to try so many different things. Maybe I will, who knows.

Anyway, this is Goku around the time of the original Saiyan/Radditz saga, a little scrawny. Hope you like it.
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Comments: 49

Sora200 [2013-08-08 19:33:18 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, but the hair is too normal to be a redesign of Goku.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Sora200 [2013-08-09 10:18:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeh, I'm really not happy with this. I tried to reimagine him in more or a realistic way, so he wouldnt have crazy hair, but then that takes away so much of him as a character. Back to the drawing board one day.

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Sora200 In reply to AngelCrusher [2013-08-10 12:56:25 +0000 UTC]

The hair doesn't need to have huge spikes. It just needs to be spikey. Almost all of the best characters have spikey hair.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Sora200 [2013-08-10 22:02:30 +0000 UTC]

Thing is I hate the look they do in films, like in DB Evolution where his hair was spikey but it was an unnatural style. I think it looks bad, so wanted to try something different, it just didnt work. lol

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Sora200 In reply to AngelCrusher [2013-08-12 00:18:27 +0000 UTC]

I guess not.

Maybe a short and spikey look would be better? You know, a simple gelled spiked look. Can't go wrong with that, right?

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AngelCrusher In reply to Sora200 [2013-08-12 13:02:48 +0000 UTC]

I figured that was what was going to differentiate him from Vegeta though. But doesnt matter. Something I'll have a go at in the future and give more thought behind it.

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Sora200 In reply to AngelCrusher [2013-08-13 12:59:29 +0000 UTC]

Good idea.

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Moffett1990 [2012-03-23 22:28:06 +0000 UTC]

you should check out my dbz fan comic
its pretty nice [link]

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Shadow-Sword212 [2011-07-29 06:20:50 +0000 UTC]

Nice.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Shadow-Sword212 [2011-07-29 08:24:56 +0000 UTC]

thanks man.

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trigun-knives009 [2010-09-01 08:45:30 +0000 UTC]

i love it!
i wish i drew more DBZ guys still. Toriyama is such a HUGE inspiration. i actually just bought the entire Dragonball Z manga series. Working on the dragonball one still. those guys are hard to find!

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AngelCrusher In reply to trigun-knives009 [2010-09-01 11:51:17 +0000 UTC]

Cheers man.
I am still working on buying the complete manga. I started buying the singles and some of the collections, but then saw they sold them all in a boxset. was gutted.

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trigun-knives009 In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-09-01 19:10:22 +0000 UTC]

Yea i did that when i bought Samurai Champloo. $30 a dvd and i find out its being sold for the whole series (7 discs) for $50. I'm just glad nobody was around to see me ranting and complaining at that one hah. Really though i need to go through and pick up the anime. There are a few movies i havent seen either =/ maaan time to catch up!

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dakmage42 [2010-03-05 03:52:55 +0000 UTC]

"Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his drawing level?"

"It's OVER 9000!!!"

Great job, looks very American (can't decide whether that's a compliment or not).

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AngelCrusher In reply to dakmage42 [2010-03-05 04:11:55 +0000 UTC]

haha, thanks very much dude. I'll take it as a compliment at how professional the piece looks that it could actually be on US tv.

If its not a compliment...well...I guess I'll just have to destroy you...

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dakmage42 In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-08 10:00:19 +0000 UTC]

I was just commenting on the style as apposed to it's Japanese origin. More of a statement than a compliment, still doesn't make it a criticism.... please don't kill me.

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A-logo [2010-03-04 18:56:43 +0000 UTC]

Lee Lee Lee (I know it's spelt wrong) Cool stuff! I bet if dragonball was American or European that's how
Goku would look like

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AngelCrusher In reply to A-logo [2010-03-04 22:46:58 +0000 UTC]

I shouldnt reply to this until you spell my name right.
Thanks man. I think I could do better, especially with the hair, but an american DBZ would be awesome for sure. I just finished watching the boxsets now on dvd. Sad times.

What you been upto man?

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A-logo In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-05 12:21:05 +0000 UTC]

Sorry Leigh! Where did you get the boxsets from? I want to watch DBZ all over again instead of all the crappy anime that's out now (like one piece).
I'm looking for a job or work experience right now - but no one's recruiting. I got an encouraging reply from one company saying they'll contact me when they have some extra work - yeah right!
Was at Exeter animation festival as well where my film was screened and met Bill Plympton WOOHOO!
What about u?
Btw tell me what u think of my showreel
[link]

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AngelCrusher In reply to A-logo [2010-03-05 13:14:59 +0000 UTC]

They're all on amazon or ebay: [link] Says its a US dvd, but it plays on UK dvd players, they are region 1, 2, and 4 with 9 boxsets to collect.

That sounds cool man, sounds like you might be getting your foot in the door. I didnt know about the exeter animation festival, probably something I should have went to. Oops.

The showreel is looking alright man. I think there is some issues of framing where stuff you want people to see may appear abit small, but I think its a good start. I would start looking at other showreels, download the rigs on 11 second club and just do a few more actions and gestures, jumping, falling, throwing stuff, lifting stuff, you know the main principle stuff. Chuck that stuff in and you probably dont need the 2D stuff, I dunno.

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A-logo In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-06 13:05:46 +0000 UTC]

Oh no that link is very tempting!
You r absolutely right about the showreel.
Good job on the 2 dollar fight btw looks awesome im thinking of taking part as well not sure yet

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AngelCrusher In reply to A-logo [2010-03-06 14:05:40 +0000 UTC]

haha,you buy one you gotta get them all. But have you heard they have released Dragonball Kai? May want to wait for those dvds...but I think it will be a very very long wait.
Will be cool if you do enter man, can always use the extra people.

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A-logo In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-08 12:30:37 +0000 UTC]

I think i will wait for dragonball kai I dont think ill handle all that talking before, in between and after a fight AGAIN!
Still thinking of throwing hairy nostril(nosey) in the competition but this time with some new powers!

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AngelCrusher In reply to A-logo [2010-03-08 13:17:51 +0000 UTC]

what extra powers does a man with a mystical moustache need?!

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A-logo In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-13 21:43:54 +0000 UTC]

You will see...

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MightyMorphinPower4 [2010-03-02 19:47:04 +0000 UTC]

exllcent resign of Goku here

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AngelCrusher In reply to MightyMorphinPower4 [2010-03-02 22:48:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks alot man.

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MightyMorphinPower4 In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-03 10:31:36 +0000 UTC]

your welcome

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Jose-Ramiro [2010-03-02 06:34:56 +0000 UTC]

Heh, he lost some weight and Chi-Chi finally made him go to the barber shop.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Jose-Ramiro [2010-03-02 12:14:17 +0000 UTC]

hehe, yeh.
Like I said, this would be an early goku. he really buffed up in the frieza saga and later on when the style changed slightly. As for the hair, I tried being more realistic with it.

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Jose-Ramiro In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-03 07:01:38 +0000 UTC]

I see and you're right; long hair isn't that practical in fights.

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RODCOM1000 [2010-03-02 06:32:18 +0000 UTC]

Nice take on one of my fav characters!

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AngelCrusher In reply to RODCOM1000 [2010-03-02 12:15:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man. Yeh, goku is a great character, as are many in dbz. People see it quite one dimensionally with lots of fights, but if you look at the whole history from start to finish each character has real depth and character development.

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RedWingsDragon [2010-03-02 05:47:37 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work here..... He looks a bit like Jackie chan

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AngelCrusher In reply to RedWingsDragon [2010-03-02 12:16:39 +0000 UTC]

haha thanks buddy. Dammit, that would have been a great style to try to replicate for this! lol You know, I may have to do another drawing with a SSJ version and play with the style.

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Huggbees [2010-03-02 04:26:19 +0000 UTC]

Boy this takes me back. I first started getting serious drawing DBZ characters hence my affinity for big muscly characters now. I really like your take on him. Kind of the in between age we never saw him in the series.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Huggbees [2010-03-02 12:17:58 +0000 UTC]

hehe thanks man, yeh, more in line with what I was going for. You should get back into the dbz habit for this week just for this theme challenge adapting the characters in your new style. Always more fun to see original style on these classic designs.

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Huggbees In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-02 20:09:39 +0000 UTC]

I may just do that.

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Bug-Off [2010-03-02 04:07:21 +0000 UTC]

This must be before he starts hitting the weights, then.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Bug-Off [2010-03-02 12:18:34 +0000 UTC]

Yes indeedy. He was more lean at the beginning, then buffed up later. I may do a more buffed up version if I get time.

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Vausch-Rekab [2010-03-02 02:56:22 +0000 UTC]

Now that's gotta be a challenge. Re-creating one of the most famous characters in modern fiction would've been difficult for anyone. He probably looks more like Trunks when he's a Super Saiyan now.

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AngelCrusher In reply to Vausch-Rekab [2010-03-02 12:19:39 +0000 UTC]

When I drew it I thought he probably looks more like Gohan in the later series. But yeh, it is a tough challenge. I may redo it as I am not really that happy with it. But its fun to do.

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KnebulaNight [2010-03-02 02:44:51 +0000 UTC]

GOKU - HE LOOKS...

REFINED.

like he got a job, cut his hair, and then suddenly had to put on his Saiyan PJ's and fight evil again. XD

I love this!

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AngelCrusher In reply to KnebulaNight [2010-03-02 02:54:21 +0000 UTC]

haha thanks buddy. Well I thought what if dragonball z was an american cartoon...would goku still have AS crazy hair? I figured probably not and it would look more normal, plus goku is pretty scrawny in the first dbz series. It would be fun to take this design and add more muscle etc to get him all the way to the final saga at SSJ3.

Anyway, glad you like my weird styled goku. lol

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KnebulaNight In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-02 02:59:27 +0000 UTC]

hahahaa, very true.

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MattOodles [2010-03-02 02:33:03 +0000 UTC]

Wow, nice job.

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AngelCrusher In reply to MattOodles [2010-03-02 02:36:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I tried to really restrain it from the anime version and make it seem more like an american style cartoon.

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RonneeMazukin In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-02 18:45:34 +0000 UTC]

What the American version Goku.

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MattOodles In reply to AngelCrusher [2010-03-02 02:40:09 +0000 UTC]

I think you did a nice job with doing that.

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