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keep up

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—but it doesn't matter right now.

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for @royedweek2023 day 2: soulmates! ft. the red string of fate, and pretending it away.

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Fullmetal alchemist : Roy Mustang & Edward Elric Official art 1

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guilty pleasure #343 (royed)

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You can't, you can't catch me now

I'm comin' like a storm into your town

You can't, you can't catch me now

I'm higher than the hopes that you brought down

You can't, you can't catch me now

I'm comin' like a storm into your town

You can't, you can't catch me now

You can't, you can't, you can't

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Fullmetal Mangatist

Episode 24: You forgot?!

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sunday visit to the museum

for day 3 of @royedweek2023, reincarnation au!

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Free Free Palestine!

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Chang looks try to catch Tin Tin, but maybe not ready.

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worshiper-

Reference ->

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Shazam by Tom Reilly!

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Kitty in my lap, lap kitty, how warm and soft he is

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doodle/Similar composition, different impressions.

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I need you to know that the new away kit of the Belgian national team is an homage to Tintin and it's kind of a vibe

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“Are you sure you want to share this piece with the world?” Tom mused against Harry’s lips, a smile on his own. “The photographers would be quite… jealous.”

“Shut up.” Harry simply muttered.

My submission “For My Eyes Only” for the @bloodykissesfest 

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i absolutely lost my mind discovering your blog this morning. i absolutely adore your style and your story/concept ideas SO MUCH. i love your love for chang and i adore how you draw him and just the love and care you have for the characters and their stories, their history-just everything. oh my god your art and animations are incredible thank you so much you made me so happy this morning 😭😭😭

Thank you very much! I just feel like the Tintin universe has a lot of potential for deep dives. Herge often drew inspiration from the real world so that naturally brings a lot of richness - I'm just lucky to have the privilege of having nearly a century of hindsight and an Internet connection for my research!

also fun fact, I draw Chang the way I do for multiple reasons. I ramble so here's a Read More:

The first is just to update how Chinese people are depicted in this style - I'm Chinese myself (British Chinese) and while I do appreciate Chang's original appearance was basically modelled off a real guy and Herge really did try his best with depicting Chinese people sensitively I wouldn't be comfortable sticking exactly to those original portrayals (tbh it’s mostly the eyes and the skin colour I have an issue with, I liked the weird rubberiness of early Herge!). I also would like to update how the Japanese characters were portrayed too as man those designs are viscerally uncomfortable (like those characters were villainous because they were doing imperialism, not because they're Japanese man come on)

The second is - Chang is a fucking shapeshifter. I swear he looks different in every appearance he makes in official materials. You're telling me these are all the same guy??

From left to right: Chang from a postage stamp that uses artwork from The Blue Lotus, the middle is from the 90s cartoon and the one on the right is from a... cheese sticker??? His nose, hair and face shapes change quite a bit

To get his design I mixed together the 90s cartoon version with the original. People have mentioned The Cheekbones Chang has in the 90s cartoon but I actually like how they give him a distinct shape, it helps differentiate his shape language from Tintin who's all round and soft.

For his young adult design I initially thought to reference Tintin in Tibet but he's so malnourished and close to death his portrayal there probably wasn't intended to represent what he's normally like. I just took my design for Chang and pushed the shapes more. I thought it would be cool for him to look pretty different when he grows up as a contrast to how static Tintin is as a character.

The third (and funniest) reason why I draw Chang the way I do is I actually look a lot like Blue Lotus Chang to a frightening degree, like to the point where it looks like my likeness was stolen 70 years before I even existed. I do not like thinking about my physical existence! I do not want to draw myself! No thank you!! my self insert is haddock if we’re being real