Styles Change With Time. Wanna See It?

We all change with time, if we didn't it would be boring. People change in the way they dress, the way they eat, The way they look. But just like that happens in many things drawing is no different. Drawing styles change, evolve which is what usually happens to artists who have been doing it for many years. 

Like it happened to Akira Toriyama, the creator of he Dragon Ball franchise. and to show you how this happened to him as well here are two pictures of the same character (although if you know this franchise you might have noticed this changes too) in this focus on Goku 

Illustrated by: Akira Toriyama
Published by: Viz Media

First picture is from the before mentioned main character Goku in 1989 which is when this Volume was first published. 

Second picture is of the same character but in 1995. It is the same artist who drew these two images, yet the change is clear. To help illustrate the changes.

On the first picture, the character's jaw is quite squarish, while on the second one is more rounded. as well with the nose, that altough it is on a slightly different pose, the nose is still a little more detailed for the second picture. Not to mention that although this character has aged; plot-line wise he is not supposed to age as rapidly. So, even if that argument were to be made it is not likely to put the change in style to the aging of the characters.

Looking at both images there is more detail applied into the second one than there is to the first one. different tones and background. There is more of a perspective of whee light sources comes in the second one than on the first first one. Plus the hair, it looks bigger on the second one.   For this example I compared images of the same character on how he looks on the first volume of Dragon Ball Z to the last volume of the very same comic book.

Illustrated by: Akira Toriyama
Published by: Viz Media

There are many examples of this but I find this comic to be one of the most relevant ones, when it comes to it. Especially since, this aside from being a comic book, is one of the most well known Japanese animated series of all times.