Reddit reviews Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations
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Looks to be inspired by the cover of Daizenshuu 1.
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Please comment if I've missed any and if so, I apologise in advance.
Only Daizenshuu 1 has been released into English under the title "Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations". Most of the others can be found for sale on ebay or through third party sellers on Amazon. Likewise, Daizenshuu 7 has been translated by Magikarp46.
Alternatively, you could go to the Kanzenshuu website where they have translations of pretty much all the interviews and whatnot from the guidebooks.
Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations, (AKA the first Daizenshu), it's all the chapter and cover art from Shonen Jump back when Dragon Ball was first released.
It's really nice quality too! Here's a YouTube review of it.
Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421525666/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_FbjRAbSB26CH1
https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Illustrations-Akira-Toriyama/dp/1421525666/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526619801&sr=8-2&keywords=akira+toriyama+illustration
I remember the original for this image. It was a poster from a 1990 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump (#30? Don't have my notes in front of me) that featured Goku and Gohan.
Toriyama identified it as the only standalone Dragon Ball illustration he was happy with in his interview from Daizenshuu volume 1 (The Complete Illustrations, available in English from Viz), but later on, in his interview with Ei'ichirō Oda in the One Piece artbook Color Walk 1 (also available in English, though maybe out of print), he couldn't remember why he said this. That's Toriyama for you....
Dragon Ball: The Complete Illustrations by Akira Toriyama
Cleaned up and upsized slightly in PS.
Have you ever looked into a Diazenshuu? Good god. Go buy this.
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By the way, the majority of that "fan art" is just copying Toriyama's work and claiming it as their own. That, or it's copying Yamamuro's or Nakatsuru's work, which is based on Toriyama's designs. I don't even know what the fuck I saw today. I need to do something because your comment just pissed me off. Thanks.