Been doing my yearly rewatch of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. So I was inspired to do a piece—well two— it was meant to be one but decided to end up doing both! Here are the initial thumbnails!
After the thumbs, I was undecided on which I liked best. I really liked both sketches but I couldn’t make up my mind!!
I decided to be lazy 🤪😝 and initially chose to do the simpler one with Ed holding out for the philosopher stone!
Also, originally, I was going to do this piece digitally but one of my goals this year is to be better with my traditional tools and fill out sketchbook and actually use all my brush pens and markers instead of letting continue to collect dust! So… I picked up my sketchbook and there I went!
I didn’t do a great job of recording or taking pictures of the various stages of completion for this piece (sorry) but this one was pretty straightforward and simple to do. I used colored pencils for this one! Not bad!
I decided I wasn’t done! I really wanted to see the other sketch fully realized, I felt like I had a good idea and colors in my mind and I didn’t want to let it go! So there I went! Luckily there was space left on the same page so this sketchbook page would be fully dedicated to FMA, yay!
This time I’m using my Arrtx acrylic brush markers, which is a little more nerve wracking than colored pencils 😖😖.
But I was definitely up for the challenge!
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Almost there! That metal arm was giving me nightmares!
And here it is! Final, I’m mostly happy with how it came out especially with having used acrylic markers! And the full spread:
Hope y’all like! Thanks for reading!!
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