hetalia | [fanart] Guerra Civil

This is a lovely piece, I like your style so much! Great job!

Thanks! :D

That's a great piece of art for a sad time in history.

I don't know about the great part, but I do agree about the sad part. *nods*

I think the art is great ;)

Danke schön. (*^_^*)

Quite different from your usual APH submissions c: Honestly the only knowledge I have of Spain during modern wars was the one Picasso was in and I didn't even get to finish that documentary OTL

But honestly, nice flip to something serious c:

I personally prefer the serious side of Hetalia (though shipping is never out of the question XD;;;). The Spanish Civil War intrigues me like the Winter War and the Risorgimento. Unfortunately I still have a serious lack of understanding for the latter. :/

Is that background Guernika? Just curious because it seems Germany is looking at the bombing.

Yes. Well, at least I attempted it to be. >_>;;;;

I recognized it, so you did well :3

My mother was living in Guernika when she was a child, her school was the hospital at that time (well, she was born in 1957, but elders are always telling stories, you know). One of my granparents remember Italians keeping republicans prisoners (he was one of them) and it's true about french and russians trying to help republicans (in fact, soldiers from the Republica fought in France militia during WWII because they couldn't return to Spain and a hundreds of children were sent to Russia to avoid the Civil War) so your fanart is pretty accurate <3

I'm glad to hear that. The last thing that I want is to offend anyone because of mistaken facts. ¡Muchas gracias!

Your France is gorgeous! He's a true bishie here. *salivates a bit* Wait, even Russia was involved in the Spanish Civil War? *wikies* Oh wow. I learned something today.

Yeah, I was kinda surprised when I learned about that too. XD;;; Hetalia: makes you learn something new everyday.

THIS. IS. EPIC.

In the very sense of the word. I love it. It gives off a really nostalgic feeling because it looks ... not completely but a lot like a hommage to old Shoujo Manga, and the whole atmosphere is awesome. The composition is very well done, too.

Eh - though. Uhm, do you want crit? Because I think I spotted something, but I know that some people don't want it.

JA, TACK<3

I am personally not really satisfied with this one (though I rarely am with any of my work anyway XD;;;). It would be very helpful if you can point it out to me so I might be able to improve for the next works.

<3 Ingen orsak~

Okay. It took me a while to figure out, but... it's really pretty much in the middle. Germany's back. Two things:
1) He looks like a 19th century girl, if you follow the lines that indicate his side. Wasp Waist. His waist is barely wider than his neck... I guess you didn't want to draw his hips & legs, but they should be in the picture - the way he holds himself he doesn't seem to lean to the side that much.
2) Let's look up a bit. There should be folds where the line of his arm meets his side, because no matter how you do your shirt/jacket, it will get crumpled there.
Which, actually, makes me add 3) The line of his shoulder and arm looks very uncomfortable, like he's pulling up his arm by the joint. that is probably why the arm looks somehow strange as a whole
And now that I look at it again, 4) his elbow region should be thinner. Usually sleeves get thinner between the shoulder and the elbow.

(Can you guess that I had to watch people's backs for ages before I could draw them correctly? |D )

(Can you guess that I still have problem with people's back despite having been watching them for ages? XD;;;;;;;;)

Thanks for the input! Yeah, I did notice the problem with his back. My biggest mistake was that I didn't have an eraser handy at the time and I rendered that part too much. I'll keep an eye on that part next time!

I think I love you :'>

LOVE THE STYLE OF THIS ONE SO MUCH HRNGH it looked so dramatic ;A; <3

Kok belum tidur? XD;;;;

Glad you like it. :)

XD; Sejak ke SG gw jadi burung hantu. orz

ini gambar di mana yah btw? o: Koq kayak pencil drawing gt...?

Yah, dasar anak kuliahan. XDDDDD

It was memang pencil on sketchbook XD I haven't been using manual tools for a while so I figured, ah well. :D

hush XDD;; gw serasa lagi dimarahin XDDDD

Oooooh, no wonder. owo;;; Well your sketches are awesome so... <3 XD /bows

So beautiful and so heartbreaking at the same time. Your style is gorgeous and I liked a lot the colouring.

Glad that you liked it. :D

This is so lovely. Your style is gorgeous, good job!

Thanks! :)

Lovely art as always. &hearts But what I really like about this piece is the texture; the art looks like it's done with charcoal and/or pencil on canvas. Did you have a texture brush for that effect?

Well, it is pencil on sketchbook. Then I scanned it and color it with openCanvas. XD

Oh this is beautiful! The composition is amazing!

Glad you like it! XD

This is really nice :3
wonderful job :'D

Thanks! :D

it's so cool! the draw is so awesome, and it really reminds me to the spanish civil war, specially the background, it reminds me to guernica

Muchas gracias! I hope it doesn't make anyone feel negative. :)

Delightful drawing; very well done. The colours go pretty nicely with the pencil(?).
The orangey-red is actually rather close to the colour of dried, smeared blood. _{I wish it'd stay such a healthy red, though. :c}

=^..^=~

Glad you like it! :D
Dried blood is a sickening color, IMHO. Especially on skin.

It stains clothing a really ugly colour, too. _{I help clean deer; I don't have a blood fetish or anything like that. ><}

Yeah. And such a bitch to clean. I got wounded more that I'd like. And there's the period. :/

_{Ah, yes...I bleed like a stuck pig when wounded.
Cold water and soap are my friends during those bloody times.}

AMAZING!!!

(love the way spain's eyes turned out - the vacant look)

Glad you liked it! :D

I left a comment on pixiv, but I must do it here too. Cuz I must confess that when I saw this fanart I went speachless. It's such a powerful composition... I mean, Spain... OMG All covered in blood, that look he has and the tears... It's perfect. It really shows what the country went through that time.

Guernika reference was so cool too. And god, it's great to see you know that Russia helped (well... Russia had interests but... ok. Helped.)

I just love this fanart. I'm speachless everytime I see it.

I would only change one little thing. And that would be France's expression. He's smiling and wel... He was a little fucked up by the situation, can't imagine him smiling like that. If you want to know more, I can explain it to you òwo

But the rest is so perfect ;W; really... I'm all: awww my poor country ;___;

¡Muchas gracias! I'm glad that it left an impression.

I'd admit that I didn't know how far was Russia and France's involvement. I seemed to have defaulted that every country has interest in other country's misfortune, so yeah, hence that France. Sorry for that bit of inaccuracy. XD;;;;;;;

I'll explain a little about how was involved France in this. (If you don't want to know just ignore my message, lol xD)

France first wanted to help but UK told that they couldn't help Spain and that if France helped Spain, UK would not help France if it was attacked by the germans...

Sooo~ France did a "Not intervention" Pact with other countries... Buuuut. Franced signed another pact years before that forced him to send guns and this stuff to Spain so... lol. He was pretty fucked. The weapons got to spain but... first they were sent secretly to México and from then to Spain... -w-

The frontiers were closed by the french and the help from other countries couldn't get to the spaniards.

Too, a lot of french helped out with the "Brigadas Internacionales" but the country, officially (at least at first and during a lot of time) was in "problems" xD

Dunno if anyone finds this interesting or what. I just had to explain xD

[fanart] Guerra Civil

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I don't remember learning about the Spanish Civil War.

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