ext_20624 (![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
youkofujima.livejournal.com) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hetalia2008-08-04 07:15 pm
youkofujima.livejournal.com) wrote in hetalia2008-08-04 07:15 pm
Entry tags:
[fanart] Asia Postcards
More sketches! (I hardly have enough attention span to ink or colour anything, and that's not a good sign.)
This series started out as just a very detailed chibi picture of Hong Kong and then spanned into an "Asian Series." If and when I actually stop being so easily distracted, I would actually like to colour these and make them into postcards or something to sell at a con.
Title: Asia Postcard Series
Author/Artist:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
youkofujima
Character(s) or Pairing(s): China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan
Rating: PG (weapons)
Warnings: Sketches, biased symbolism. The historical and political stuff are whited out so that people who don't want to read them, won't have to.
Summary: And so this is Asia.
China. When I go around to inking this thing, I will try to make the panda look more realistic, I swear. Behind him is his national flower, the peony. Why is he sitting on a panda, holding a panda, and tons of spears are coming from behind him? Well, it's actually been said that China uses pandas as a really negative tool in international diplomacy ("Trojan Pandas") when he uses a lot of the money not only for more panda research but to also make and stockpile more weapons.
Hong Kong. This was the first of the series that I drew, and I wanted to make it look really, really detailed, despite drawing them in a chibi style (I wanted to go for a cute-but-dark theme). The flowers surrounding him are poppies, and the items inside the birdcage are the opium pipe as well as an incense urn.
I got the poppy leaves totally wrong, though.
I drew this one last and was sadly not very satisfied with the results. There's just something about the way Japan is posed that makes him look more timid than regal. I'll have to fix that. But this is Japan, in the Heian Era style of dress, with a nine-tailed-fox behind him.
Korea. If you look closely, through the terrible perspectives (I decided last minute I wanted a bamboo forest, hahahah!), there is the girl Korea, which a lot of fandom has decided is North Korea. I had no references on hand, so I messed up on the hanbok, I'm so sorry. TT___TT And, I can't draw tigers (they're the national animal of Korea, from what I heard.)
Taiwan. This is actually somewhat related to the first picture of China. China currently has 706 ballistic missiles capable of being fitted with nuclear warheads pointed at Taiwan, and her status as a nation is really quite ...ambiguous, is probably the right term. China will not allow any sort of declaration of independence coming from Taiwan, and while America, Canada, UK and Japan acknowledge the One China doctrine, they say that they do not recognize or support it (but not that they "opposed" it.)
So the picture is of the missles that just barely miss her, and the ambiguous mythical beast that supposedly backs her up.
I go cook dinner now.
This series started out as just a very detailed chibi picture of Hong Kong and then spanned into an "Asian Series." If and when I actually stop being so easily distracted, I would actually like to colour these and make them into postcards or something to sell at a con.
Title: Asia Postcard Series
Author/Artist:
youkofujimaCharacter(s) or Pairing(s): China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan
Rating: PG (weapons)
Warnings: Sketches, biased symbolism. The historical and political stuff are whited out so that people who don't want to read them, won't have to.
Summary: And so this is Asia.
China. When I go around to inking this thing, I will try to make the panda look more realistic, I swear. Behind him is his national flower, the peony. Why is he sitting on a panda, holding a panda, and tons of spears are coming from behind him? Well, it's actually been said that China uses pandas as a really negative tool in international diplomacy ("Trojan Pandas") when he uses a lot of the money not only for more panda research but to also make and stockpile more weapons.
Hong Kong. This was the first of the series that I drew, and I wanted to make it look really, really detailed, despite drawing them in a chibi style (I wanted to go for a cute-but-dark theme). The flowers surrounding him are poppies, and the items inside the birdcage are the opium pipe as well as an incense urn.
I got the poppy leaves totally wrong, though.
I drew this one last and was sadly not very satisfied with the results. There's just something about the way Japan is posed that makes him look more timid than regal. I'll have to fix that. But this is Japan, in the Heian Era style of dress, with a nine-tailed-fox behind him.
Korea. If you look closely, through the terrible perspectives (I decided last minute I wanted a bamboo forest, hahahah!), there is the girl Korea, which a lot of fandom has decided is North Korea. I had no references on hand, so I messed up on the hanbok, I'm so sorry. TT___TT And, I can't draw tigers (they're the national animal of Korea, from what I heard.)
Taiwan. This is actually somewhat related to the first picture of China. China currently has 706 ballistic missiles capable of being fitted with nuclear warheads pointed at Taiwan, and her status as a nation is really quite ...ambiguous, is probably the right term. China will not allow any sort of declaration of independence coming from Taiwan, and while America, Canada, UK and Japan acknowledge the One China doctrine, they say that they do not recognize or support it (but not that they "opposed" it.)
So the picture is of the missles that just barely miss her, and the ambiguous mythical beast that supposedly backs her up.
I go cook dinner now.
no subject