[Fanart] Little One Inch

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Title: Little One Inch
Artist: sobdasha
Characters: Holy Roman Empire, Chibitalia
Pairings: in the subtext
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Description: Little One Inch (Issun Boushi)--a Japanese fairy tale about a tiny boy who didn't grow, who went off to make his place in the world with a little sword, and who met a princess...

In the category of fairy tales about Children No Bigger Than The Tip Of Your Finger, the first one I always think of is Thumbelina and the second one I always think of is Little One Inch. Which suits my thematic purposes just fine, because Little One Inch gets his wish to grow up at the end (HRE is Germany; yes I am a complete sap) and marries his princess and lives happily ever after. I also enjoy that he becomes a bodyguard (in his words; to everyone else, "playmate") for his princess.

Anyway, these are kind of big, I'm sorry, but they're pretty much a full sheet of paper and I don't want to shrink the details too much because I'm rather proud of how they turned out, even if it wasn't quite what I'd had in mind when I started.

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And then I just like to toss in a link to the original pencil version, if you are curious to see what it looked like while I was still plotting and hadn't screwed up the inking yet.

Thanks for looking~

Comments

[falkner]

Adorable as always ;~;)/♥

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Thank you~!