Title: you and I remain the same Author: MementoMoriPontifexMortis Fandom: Hetalia Warnings: human names used bc I’m a sucker, some hidden angst, Relationships: DenEst Characters: HWS Den, HWS Est, Tags: fluff, minor angst, AO3:right here!
Summary: confessions under a starry sky.
Notes: the fact that you guys saw a snippet of this in like late feb/early march and yet i’m just now posting it should tell you guys that life got hard for me - of which i am sorry. first i had to change the tenses because i absolutely hate writing in present tense and then i struggled with if i even liked it, you can thank my beta (and darling sibling) who read this over and was like please post it because without them, i’d just be struggling over if i liked it or not forever. I have so many fics that still have never seen the light of day because of that! And a whole host of other bull showed up sovery late in posting this!
I do hope you guys enjoy, despite my struggling feelings towards this, I actually really really like this story and I would love it if you guys did too! This was written for the fic.tober ‘21, the first prompt: I need you. If you wish to prompt me anything from that list, you absolutely can! Additional notes at the bottom like always!
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“Don’t you realize it already?” Nikolaj said, the world quiet as the stars hung as gentle lights dotted against the black backdrop of the night sky. “I need you – I love you.”
It’s my birthday today, so I only had time to quickly color a very scrawly traditional sketch I did earlier in the week.
It was fun drawing (and coloring) some canon outfits that I barely draw these three in. (Except I messed Ed’s up, oops. I realized after I inked that his outfit in the Nyotalia episode was a blazer, not a sweater, X’D)
…Also, sorry, Raivis, I messed up his hair as well 0__0. And Liet’s hair is a little too short, oops.
Despite all of this, I do somewhat like how it looks as a colored sketch?
Under the cut are the usual extras (the trio’s original anime eye colors, as well as Raivis w/ purple eyes):
I always draw these three looking sad, so I decided to try drawing them with happier expressions. (Because they deserve everything good ksdhfjsdf)
I know when I traditionally draw lineart, it’s not as clean and polished as my digital lineart, but I feel like I can draw expressions better. (Same with hair; I for some reason, the hair always turns out better when I draw it traditionally.)
And since I already had the lineart sketched out, once I scanned it, I had more energy to focus on coloring. (Digital coloring is so much fun!)
I had a lot of fun with their outfits! Each one was loosely (some more than others) based off of one of their alternate canon outfits (which I will add under the cut).
Other stuff under the cut will be the usual alternate versions (Liet with fluffier hair, these three’s Seasons 1-4 anime eye colors, and Raivis w/ purple eyes, like he was shown with in older artwork).
I have been feeling very frustrated with my art for awhile (specifically my digital lineart), so I decided to try something different: draw the lineart traditionally, then color it digitally.
I used to do this all the time when I was in university, but after I didn’t have access to a scanner regularly, I switched to drawing my linearts digitally. (Now that I have my own scanner at my new job, I can scan traditional lineart more frequently!)
While I don’t see too much of a difference (though I do like how I drew the clothing folds better traditionally), I like how I draw hair better traditionally. For some reason, I can add more details to it easier, and it doesn’t look weird. (Which is why the lineart I draw digitally seems a bit more simple, which frustrates me.)
Does anyone have an opinion? (Like do people like the traditional lineart better than the digital, or vice-versa?)
Some bonuses under the cut (aka, messed with Liet’s hair as usual, used the original anime eye colors, and gave Raivis purple eyes. …I am very indecisive with how I color these three sometimes, so I include all the alternate versions I have, in case someone likes one of those better):
