Superficial Intelligence

There came a time during middle school where most of my drawing inspiration came from anime. I started practicing drawing full-figured women with anime-style eyes and strong, bulky men (inspired by Dragonball Z, which I would watch every afternoon). All of these drawings, except the last one, were drawn during middle school.

Typical example of many of my drawings.

A lady character (one of few colored drawings).

Sword dude.

A trio of heroes I made up. They were (from left to right) the Blue Flame, the Green Flame, and the Yellow Flame. I often had trouble drawing faces, so sometimes, as in this drawing, I would just draw the bodies.

An unfinished drawing containing some of the characters that inspired my drawing style during my middle school era.

This one is from my first year of college. In all those years, my anime-drawing skills didn't really improve much.

Although this style of drawing is fun, it's still a bit too realistic (and consequently, harder to draw) for me. I always wanted to reach the level of superhero comic book artists, but that really takes a ton of practice. I think I enjoy more drawing comic strip style cartoons anyway.