Boku no Hero Academia
Re-drawing panels from the manga till my heart is satisfied.
I started reading the series years ago when the anime first started airing I think and then sort of fell off the wagon, only checking in on it from time to time to see how it was coming along. When I found out it had finally ended, I went on to binge read the entire series in two weeks and boy did I catch feelings again. The day I finished the last chapter I went to bed thinking about it and woke up the next morning with it being the first thing on my mind. I am simply obsessed.
Vol.1 - Vol.3
The first couple of sketches are really dodgy because I couldn’t quite commit. But when I got to volume 4 it just sort of clicked and the more I drew, the more fun it became. Even if I’m just making redraws, I’m really enjoying it. I had originally planned to at most do 3 panels for each volume but as you’ll find out, some volumes got more than that. A lot more haha
Vol. 4 - Vol. 5
You can really tell who my favorites are. My top three favs are Fumikage, Ochako and Hitoshi. I do like Izuku and Katsuki to, but I like them for the dynamic they have, so they’re more like top ten as a pair haha There were so many good panels in these volumes... I’m really tempted to go back and do more from vol.3. Side note; I have a derwent coloursoft, aptly named blush pink. I used it liberally on everyone, because I love making cute shit and these kids are stinkin’ cuties the whole bunch.
Vol. 6 - Vol. 8
There’ve been a few doodles I’ve wanted to omit because they’re not very good. But I decided to include them anyway. Not everything you draw has to be a masterpiece and you’re not gonna be in the best condition every day.
Vol. 9 - Vol. 10
I may have given myself a little to free of reigns during volume 10 but heck there’s so much going on and there are so many good panels, and so many of my favorite scenes. I did write at the top of this page, “-till my heart is satisfied” and if I’d left any of these out I would not have been satisfied. So I’m drawing them. All of them. Deal with it haha.
I did move to a new sketchbook at the end of vol.9 so now a lot of the sketches will have a bit of yellow tint because the paper is this off-white color. I’ve redone the coloring on some of the sketches but I feel like replacing the pencil with digital does sort of make it lose some of the charm so I’m not doing it for all of them.
I really needed the last redraw for volume 10 to be Izuku for some reason. I ended up with almost 30 redraws for that volume but I needed it and it really is so much fun and makes me so happy to be able to experience the series one more time by doing this. Onto volume 11, I have a feeling this one will also get quite a few doodles.
