Fan art for gretchen8642

[sonjajade]

gretchen8642wrote an entry to the fma_fic_contest community titled "Adonis Burned" and asked if I would do a manip for it, so here it is!  (View at full size, that's always best!)

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i really like this. you did a great job of making Maes's half Ishbalan son look enough like Maes yet different

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's totally awesome! You did a great job making it into a short comic. :)

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

Thanks! At first I was just going to do a single pic, but the screencaps I had couldn't work together without being flipped horizontally, which would've made someone's uniform look backwards. I had a lot of fun with this! I wanna do more like it!

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

Those eyes in the first panel were really hard, but I wanted to be sure I got her details in about the red flecks in the green irises. And I had to draw in a few things by hand, like an eyebrow that got skewed by eyeglasses that were edited out... Thank you, it was lots of fun and I'm thinking I want to do more like it!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh i bet they were hard. good luck with whatever project you pick next

[gretchen8642.livejournal.com]

holy craaaaaaaap this is amaaaaazing <333
no seriously i just stared at it for like 10 minutes being like. no way. no way someone did something this awesome because of something i wrote.

i love it. you're incredible.

[luxquintessence.livejournal.com]

I love it when commercial art (like FMA) inspires fan fiction (i.e.:gretchen's piece) which in turn inspires more art (your photo manip)


One bit of a luxfail on my part: I always have trouble figuring out which direction to read from. I default to Right --> Left but with fan art I never know. Do you know if there is a symbol that designates which way, or do most people just figure it out by context?

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!! I'm so glad you like it! As I said in previous comments, this was a lot of fun (once I got my graphics pad to quit fucking up lol). Thank you for the opportunity to use my skills in a new way :)

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think about the right to left reading thing (which is what I default to as well...) though this reads from left to right. And the inspiration cycle is a beautiful thing, isn't it?

[lunaria-kitty.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, this is very well done! I love how you did the eyes.

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! The eyes were my favorite part!

[luxquintessence.livejournal.com]

Well, regardless of direction, I think it is fantastical lovely :)

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[seta-suzume.livejournal.com]

WOW, what a knock-out! 8D You just keep getting better and better.

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

haha, thanks! I really try!