- Hey, I'm Ross Tran from YouTube channel, Ross Draws.
You can follow me at my social, @rossdraws.
- Hello, my name is Anthony Jones.
You can follow me @robotpencil and all that.
- Today we're drawing--
- Dragonball Z Characters.
- From memory.
(yells)
- As far as I know,
that's what the shows about.
- Pretty much.
- I watched Dragon Ball Z when I was a kid a lot.
- Whenever I teach,
all I use is Dragon Ball Z references.
- Oh really? - Yeah.
- Can we switch sides now?
- Switch sides?
- I wanna see what it's like over there.
- This has always been my side.
- I'll have to draw someone else then.
Gotta get that side.
(playful music)
- [Narrator] Majin Buu.
- Ah.
Oh my god.
The bubblegum lookin' dude.
- Chunky dude, right?
- [Narrator] Vegeta.
- Oh yeah, okay.
Should I try to be subversive and not have him powering up?
- You give Vegeta whatever attitude speaks to you.
I'm gonna have a huffy Vegeta.
- [Narrator] They are drawing Goku.
- Oh.
Wait, isn't there multiple Goku's?
Which one are we drawing?
- I think we're just drawing the base grown up Goku.
- Majun Buu was like one of my favorite arcs
in Dragon Ball Z.
- I think I stepped out of Dragon Ball Z during this age.
- He's got a very angular body, angular face.
- Much like my own head.
- Oh.
I gotta Vegeta reference right in front of me it looks like.
- So you never watched Dragon Ball?
- I watched some Dragon Ball,
but definitely not enough to call myself a fan.
Through social osmosis,
I know quite a lot about Dragon Ball Z.
- [Kevin] Okay.
- I know that they need to collect
the Dragon Balls to make their wish come true.
- Wait, are we sure this isn't Pokemon?
- No.
- I have no idea what he wears.
Like what kind of clothes-- - He has a cape.
- All right, cool.
So I'm just gonna give him a cape
and then I'm gonna give him some muscles.
- And he has pants.
- Does he have a shirt on?
- Oh, I don't know.
- All right, mine's shirtless then.
We're goin' for it.
- Yeah, I haven't watched Dragon Ball Z since college.
So this is gonna be real interesting.
When do you think I went to college, Jackie?
- 1753.
The same age that Lincoln was born.
- What's your favorite Dragon Ball Z episode?
- Oh man.
Maybe Dragon Ball Kai episode
where they assembled five episodes into one
and they removed all the panning shots of lakes
and some grass rustling in a field.
They have a lot of B-roll in that fictional universe.
- I think he has an antenna.
- There's a real stereotype around aliens
and creatures from different worlds
that they all have antennas.
I feel like we need to break that stereotype.
- I know he's wearing an orange jumpsuit.
- [Kevin] Right.
- With a belt.
Form and function over fashion in this show.
- Remind me, why were they fighting all the time?
- 'Cause they're all fighting over the Dragon Ball.
- You gotta catch 'em all?
- You gotta catch 'em all,
unlike other shows that might use that motto.
- I don't want you to forget
about Vegeta's intense widow's peak.
- Oh, yes thank you.
That is the key to this character.
Vegeta is what introduced to what a widow's peak was.
- Yeah.
He's really got it goin'.
- When I was growing up, I watched a lot of Dragon Ball Z.
How old were you when you were watching that stuff?
- I was like six, seven, eight.
It was the thing.
- I think what I loved about Dragon Ball
was that it was like,
it was kinda like a soap opera for children.
- A soap opera for children?
- Does he wear gloves?
I feel like he wears some butler gloves.
- Like white gloves? - Yeah.
When you're punching so many things,
don't you have to protect your hands.
- That's like boxing gloves.
- Should I give him boxing gloves?
- You should give him boxing gloves.
- Okay.
- Even though I'm 99% sure he does not have boxing gloves.
- Oh, he has a thing.
I don't know what it says.
Doesn't he have a logo on his shirt?.
- [Kevin] Oh.
- I'm just gonna draw a circle with a heart in it.
- Aw.
- Let me ask, are you putting him in the pink shirt,
Bermuda shorts Vegeta--
- That was the thing I was thinking about,
I was like, do I want casual summer vacation Vegeta?
- That's one of my favorite things
about Dragon Ball Z episodes is that
they would do these random, I mean it's not my favorite.
It annoyed the hell out of me as a kid,
but it's really funny looking back that they would be like,
"The planet's at stake,
"and didn't you wonder how
"Yajirobe was getting his driver's license?"
Like no, nobody wondered about Yajirobe.
- There's a joke that's like,
how many Dragon Ball Z characters
does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- I don't know.
- It only takes one, but it takes five episodes to do it.
- Oh dude, I was just about to comment on there.
There was this whole arc with Goku holding up a spirit bomb
for like five, six, seven episodes.
- So I remember Dragon Ball Z mostly
from the Super Nintendo game.
- There was a Super Nintendo game?
- Oh, hell yeah, there is.
- Was it a fighting game?
- Yeah, it's like Street Fighter,
but it's mostly just you throwing
giant fireballs and energy at each other.
- That sounds great.
- Yeah.
- That's all I want to do in real life.
- You just want to throw giant fireballs at me?
- Yeah.
- Jackie.
- Why wouldn't you?
- I thought we were friends.
- No.
- I remember he was weirdly small in the show.
- He's small, but he's also just
really thin and delicate looking.
- Yeah, I remember I wasn't super intimidated by him
when I first saw him,
'cause he was standing next to the big guys.
- Yeah, that's the whole point.
- He had the bald big guy.
- He's supposed to be like a weak looking prince,
but then he's the strongest one.
Toriyama was good at that kind of thing.
I like that.
- If I was in the design room,
and they were like, "Anthony, what do you think
"we should do with this character?"
First of all, I'd be like, "He needs more muscles."
- Muscles?
What?
- And then they'll probably would be rightfully angry,
and I'd be like, all right.
The next step, we need to spread that pink
like all over the place.
- Are you gonna make him glow?
- I have to make him glow?
- I'm gonna make him glow.
- Oh boy, okay.
- 'Cause when they do the screaming thing.
- When they scream at each other.
- When they scream at each other, they glow, don't they?
- I think so.
All right, I will try to make him glow.
- What's his color scheme?
Is he blue and red?
- He's like blue and yellow?
He's like yellow in the version I'm drawing,
'cause he's got his saiyan armor.
- He's got yellow and white.
God, why can't I remember his colors?
- I was so confident going in.
I'm like, oh I know what he looks like.
He's just like a big.
- Just know that my design
is inspired by your words.
So if I am wrong, everybody,
I am not to blame.
- Whoa.
- And then if you're wrong on your end,
then you would be taking double blame.
- When they're juicing up to become super saiyans.
- Juicing up.
- When they're juicing up. - Ew.
- You know what I mean.
You know what I'm talking about, Jackie.
Don't pretend like you don't know what I'm talking about.
- Don't say Goku's juicing up.
- Don't rocks and stuff float whenever they're juicing up.
- Stop saying juicing up.
- Juicing up, Jackie.
- I'm leaving.
- I gave my guy black nipples.
- Does he have nipples?
- I think so.
I think so.
- Dragon Ball Z matured.
Dude, they went nipples?
Nice.
- Oh, I remember.
I think he has a symbol on his forehead.
Like M for Majin Buu.
- Hey Cody.
- Hey.
- What does the scanner say about his power level?
- It's over 9000%.
(yells)
- Time to color dodge.
- You ready?
Bam.
Let's do it
- All right, here we go.
- Oh snap.
- Add that lighting in there.
- Oh snap.
- And now it's better.
- It looks so good.
I know, if it looks better.
Look at all that glow.
- Even the staff is getting out of their seats.
They can't believe what's happening.
- Check it out.
- That is the secret to art?
- That is the secret to art.
Just color dodge everything.
- That's all you need.
- Hashtag color dodge.
- I didn't get to draw the glow, Kevin.
- You didn't get to draw the glow?
- I didn't get to draw the glow.
- What happened?
- I passed out in the middle of the video for some reason.
- I didn't notice any of that.
- Yeah, you were really into your drawing.
- I was really into my drawing.
- No, it's okay, I'm fine.
- Okay.
- I might die in a couple seconds.
- Okay.
How you think you did?
Oh Jackie, no.
- I'm a call mine.
- Okay, cool.
How do you think you did?
- I think I captured the essence pretty well.
I'm missing a lot of details.
- I forgot to put sandals on him.
- It's another impressionistic one.
- I'm here for it.
- How did you do?
- Pretty good, pretty close.
Vegeta with some Brent flare in there.
I feel good about the blue spandex.
I feel good about the yellow armor pieces.
But there's just little naggy things that feel off,
that I just can't figure out right now.
- How do you think you did?
- I think I did pretty okay.
His hair is blonde, because he was yelling.
- Okay.
- But I think it is black normally.
- Yes. - Yes.
- I didn't get to draw the glow so now it just,
you know, looks like crap.
- I'm sure it doesn't look like crap.
- Looks like crap.
- Jackie. - Throw it in the crapper.
- Settle down.
- Can I say crap? - Sure.
- Looks like crap.
(playful music)
- Whoa, this is so cool.
- This is way more cute.
- Oh you had his person with cake.
I should've added cake.
- Yeah, dude.
Come on.
This stuff is great.
- This is fun.
- Oh my god, this is really good.
That looks just him.
You gave him elf ears.
For some reason.
- I gave him elf ears?
- [Jackie] Yeah.
- Isn't that the kind of ears he has?
- I don't think so.
- Really?
- Wait, oh, I'm just now remembering.
They're aliens, right?
- He looks like a zombie version of Majin Buu.
- I think so too.
- But in a really good way.
- This is amazing, actually.
I was expecting you were gonna
make your character really adorable.
- You know what?
A good anime face.
- Really?
- Yeah.
And you know what else I'm gonna say?
It looks nothing like Kevin.
It does not look like Kevin at all.
- I like the boxing gloves.
I think that he should have boxing gloves.
Normally.
- So his hip flap things also protect his junk,
he's just got a full beetle wings protecting his whole area.
- So I kinda got there was a beetle,
that's it, a beetle wing.
I kinda got that on his belly protecting his abdomen,
but you gotta protect the crotch.
- Oh my god.
He had no M on his forehead.
- We were both.
- Dude, it was on his belt.
- I blame Ross for the M.
- You didn't give me anything.
I was like, he had this, he had that.
He has an antenna.
- Yeah, we were really off.
Are we Dragon Ball Z fans? - I don't know.
- Nice.
- All right, all right.
Looks good, looks good.
The thing about his spiky hair,
I knew it wasn't spiky all the away,
I knew there was like a--
- Yeah, he's got like--
- Like a thing.
It's like designed purposefully in a really cool way.
- That's gotta be hell to animate though,
'cause it's very specific.
- Yeah.
I'm glad we didn't do it.
(sputters)
- Me watching this as a kid,
I haven't seen this character for over two decades.
And so the things you do remember as a kid,
components of good design,
I remember the pink,
I remember the M,
and it means that the designer probably
put that in there for us to remember it.
And so two decades later,
we're on Buzzfeed drawin' Majin Buu
and it came out in the drawing.
- No that's a great point.
Absolutely.
- I personally didn't grow up with it,
but it impacted a whole generation of people.
- [Kevin] It really did.
- It's like Pokemon.
It's so popular that even I know Majin Buu
and I think Majin Buu is very cute.
- I don't know who Majin Buu is.
- Boo.
Get it, Majin Buu.
- It's awful.
(playful music)