Some doods for @e-vasong‘s fic Bloom in Winter on Ao3! (the last chapter s l a y e d me go read it i beg you)
tbh i really like how these came out! I used to have a color pallete for izuku but i made it when i had zero (0) concept of color harmony so i just said fuck it and chose some new colors
I remember seeing a various really good post about the visual references to american comicbook artist in My Hero Academia, like how Stain takes cues from the 90′s edgy anti-hero aesthetic or how the more exagerated mouth expressions are like those drawn by Todd Mcfarlane -especially Bakugo’s.
All that said I decided to specualte myself about what artists inspired All Might design, both the musclebound and the more scrawny version.
The heroic version of All Might has been compared to a Rob Liefeld character due to his absurd size but I think it looks more like how John Byrne drew Superman but with a way heavier inking.
Even his smile looks like an exagerated version of how Byrne drew Supes’ own.
As for his more humble version, the dropped shoulders that seem to blend his neck and arms, the angular face and the simplistic mouth shape with square teeth remind me mostly of how Mike Mignola draws Hellboy.
!!!!! Midoriya doesn’t fully understand how famous he is. He approaches everyone in the hero industry like they’re equals (or like he’s the fan). He has no idea these small-time heroes are having an existential crisis just because he’s breathing the same air as them, let alone asking for their autograph.
He routinely murders rookie heroes by bouncing over to them and babbling about how he’s a fan of their work, and he thinks their quirk is just so cool, and he really likes their costume. He still takes notes about other heroes, so when he meets other heroes (no matter how small-time or underground they might be) he pulls out these journals that contain actual notes about them, sometimes with sketches, usually with a tiny brainstorm on strategies/other uses for their quirks, and shares his advice with them. He’s made grown heroes cry. His smile is too bright. Too earnest. RIP every baby hero he comes across
Because Midoriya never stopped seeing himself as a fan. Because he never sees anyone else as below him, never thinks he’s above anyone else, even as the rising Symbol of Peace. It’s a part of his charisma, and probably just earns him even more fans
SO THIS IDEA WAS SUPER CUTE AND I LOVED IT A LOT AND I SPENT 10 HOURS STRAIGHT DRAWING THIS
AAAAAHHHHHHH
(ALSO…. apparently Toshi doesn’t have scars on his arm?? i thought he did when i drew that last panel, and i had already drawn it before finding out LOL oh well, it’s the thought that counts)
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