He Who Must Be Cranky
a Gravitation/Dragonball Z Crossover Image

I finally had to do something silly with the two series I was drawing at the time.

This was definitely an exercise of working with the two very different body shapes and muscle definitions. It was initially difficult to do this, since I was so used to drawing the overly-defined and bulky muscles typical of the DBZ universe. In the end, the Gravitation charas did receive some muscle but it was the lean kind any healthy and fit young man would carry on their frame. I do not see the Gravitation boys being weak.

It also seemed to a great comparison image to play with - the happiness and utter joy of life the charas Kakarotto/Gokou and Shuichi hold within themselves and share with anyone so freely, compared to the seemingly perpetual grumpiness, crankiness and anti-social sour-puss natures of Vejiita and Eiri.

It was a deliberate choice to leave various arms and legs incomplete. I wanted to insure the focus remained in the vertical center of the page and the viewer's eye moved around the canvas in a circular motion, eventually seeing each chara. Eiri's body leans toward the middle of the paper. Shu & Kaka's hands form a triangle with the point leading to the imaginary vertical center line. Vejiita's tail also points toward the center.

I really had to restrain myself from drawing Saiyajin tails on all four of them.