Series Pimping: Dragon Drive

"Series Pimping? What the heck is that?", you may ask. Well, it's a new series of pictures that I am planning on doing, using various anime and manga series that you don't hear much about due to the massive popularity of other shows. Hopefully one of these pics will spark your interest in a series, or at least you'll like the pic itself.

So I started with Dragon Drive. I just got the 6th volume of the manga recently, and was inspired to draw something about related to it. And what do you know, this is what came out. I really like the manga, though I admit that I am a sucker for the "Child-battles-with-monster" kind of genre (Like Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher and what not). I've seen the first volume of the anime as well, and it is pretty good, but I think I prefer the manga at the moment (But I have yet to see more of the anime, so who knows).

The characters in this pic are Reiji Oozora, a completely unmotivated kid who isn't good at anything until he is introduced to the game Dragon Drive, and his dragon Chibi (Chibisuke in the japanese versions), a weak looking dragon who can release the power of the "Chosen One". Yup, there's more to this video game than meets the eye.

Back to the picture, I like everything but Reiji...at least his face. I can't draw people still, eheh. For some reason the shading on Chibi makes him look weird as well. But I'm really proud how Big Chibi (how funny that sounds) came out. It took me a while to decide if I just wanted to have the neck and have his body off-camera or not, and I think this came out more eye-pleasing.

The Dragon Drive anime is licenced by Bandai [link] and I believe the whole series has been released. The Dragon Drive manga is licenced by Viz[link] , who have 8 out of 14 volumes relased, and I they are released every month/every other month.

Copic Marker + Pen