Aaaaaart dump. Micro-edition.
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hellzabethScanned a few things. Got bored and lazily fail-coloured a few.
In order to write a character properly, I have to design them first, or it just doesn't work in my mind. Hence, we have Chun Hei's various designs. I went with the first one eventually, though the bottom one I picture her as pre-communism/pre-split.
Also, Katherine. Because you won't be seeing her for a while, and I wanted to do a re-design of her hair.
I got bored at babysitting and drew this. Aw, Hong Kong, are you not used to how big Iggy's house is?
Sketchy version of what was originally intended to be a set of drawings of the UK family with their National animals (50% of which are mythical), only I realised that I cannot draw unicorns, deer or lions to save my life.
Then I went and coloured it.
Gaaaah don't look it's horrible the longer I stare at it the more flaws I seeeeeee. /sob
But yeah, Wales is badass and nobody notices.
In order to write a character properly, I have to design them first, or it just doesn't work in my mind. Hence, we have Chun Hei's various designs. I went with the first one eventually, though the bottom one I picture her as pre-communism/pre-split.
Also, Katherine. Because you won't be seeing her for a while, and I wanted to do a re-design of her hair.
I got bored at babysitting and drew this. Aw, Hong Kong, are you not used to how big Iggy's house is?
Sketchy version of what was originally intended to be a set of drawings of the UK family with their National animals (50% of which are mythical), only I realised that I cannot draw unicorns, deer or lions to save my life.
Then I went and coloured it.
Gaaaah don't look it's horrible the longer I stare at it the more flaws I seeeeeee. /sob
But yeah, Wales is badass and nobody notices.
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Date: 2010-04-09 10:15 am (UTC)Wales: D8
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Date: 2010-04-09 12:14 am (UTC)Love the character design process.
I thought North Korea had an official character design though...I think it's pretty similar to your pre-communism design... *ponders*
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Date: 2010-04-09 07:48 am (UTC)Actually, Hidekaz drew a female Korea while he was still developing what Korea would look like, but a lot of people assumed this was what North Korea looked like. And yes, she does have long hair in a braid like the pre-communism pic, though no ahoge.
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Date: 2010-04-09 09:33 am (UTC)Ah well that explains it! It's funny how the fandom has just adopted that as the character design for North Korea. Now I'm curious of if it's even canon that NK is a she or was that just something the fandom also picked up and ran with. There seems to be a lot less debate with that then with Mexico and Ireland.
I think it's interesting how he's started out with a few characters as female and then switched them to male as the process went along (Poland being one that I know of for sure and looking at some of the other final character designs I wonder about Swiss, China and Norway). That might explain why there's such a big difference in numbers in that it probably didn't start out to be the intention but then for whatever reason (be it something history based or for humor purposes in the case of Poland) he switched them late in the process.
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Date: 2010-04-09 10:03 am (UTC)She is indeed something the fandom just picked up and ran with, since, for fear of inciting the real North Korea's ire, Hidekaz will never bring her up in the strips.
Well in the beginning he said he was uncertain with how to draw female characters, but obviously he's gotten a lot more confident as time's gone on. Europe is seriously unbalanced on the male:female ratio though. Africa's looking promising, though, with most of the Nations there being introduced as girls (eg. Kenya and Zimbabwe) and damn it if I only ever see India as a girl.
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Date: 2010-04-09 04:46 am (UTC)N. Korea looks badass. And hot.
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Date: 2010-04-09 07:55 am (UTC)N.K is badass, in the insane, commie kind of way.
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Date: 2010-05-01 11:29 pm (UTC)/brb rp account
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