#Thank you Arakawa

[courtmartialme]

I have a question. Also, you're my favorite Royai artist (the characters as individuals and together). You've mentioned that you consider Riza autistic many times, but have you ever given your support for why you think that? I'm just curious what your thoughts are.

comparing to my own experience but it's common to see autistic people be taken as uninterested and rude for being unexpressive and blunt. so it's mainly about riza being presented as stoic and somewhat scary but gradually being shown she's very kind and fun and even makes bad jokes with a straight face (it's so moe........) but is bad at expressing that, which makes both other characters and viewers think she's always annoyed and no-fun when that's not true.. it's so important to me

she also barely understands other people's feelings and takes things too literally, or say things out loud you probably shouldn't

like at the hughes' funeral scene when roy says it's raining and riza's immediate reaction is to go "it's not??" LOL or when roy is coming up with problems as excuse to not fight ed in flame vs fullmetal and riza very promptly solves them...! it's all very Autism to me.. my mom works for arakawa and she told me it's true

basically:

(i haven't watched brotherhood in so long but i'm like 80% sure these panels i used are all scenes that didn't make it into the anime which is why i'm an avid brotherhood hater and you should read the manga)

#i !!! could go on but it's too long #and subjective i guess i dont want it to look like i'm reaching but it's so obvious TO ME ok !!!! #two wolves inside me one wants to reply to this with just 'arakawa told me' n the other wants to make a 50 page doc with visual evidence #they're the autism brothers #asked #also thank you...! i'm slightly surprised you like my roy individually he's just in my art to be accessory for riza #fma #riza hawkeye #will throw it in the tag fuck it !!!!!!

[todayisafridaynight]

funny as hell that all the while ichi and arakawa are having their mini reunion moment at the omi hq kiryu and co are fighting for their lives outside. guaranteed if they let the cutscene play a little longer we would've heard yelling and screaming and shishido being thrown through the window

#gaiden spoilers #snap chats #that AAAALLLLLL ima think about with that scene now Like Plesae #arakawa smilin and w/e and you can absolutely hear the chandelier breaking five doors away. we dont have time to investigate that #there a whole ass mess going on down the hall but ignore that. They Will Ignore That 'it's business as usual' ok? ok #like how did yall get outside without seeing any of this. they went out the back <3 #an already great scene made better thank you gaiden youre the gift that keeps on giving

[bubblesandpages]

Every time a person says Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood's animation has aged I receive psychological damage.

#thanks mappa #ditto when any of Bones' old titles are lumped into the same category #I prescribe you watch more of the classics and learn to respect your elders! #Fizzy talks #fmab #fma #Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist #Hiromu Arakawa #Soul Eater #soma #Ouran #Ouran High School Host Club #ohshc #mappa #bones #studio bines #studio mappa #anime #Attack on Titan #aot #snk #Shinjeki No Kyojin #csm #chainsaw man #to be clear I still think it looks as beautiful as they day it aired new fans are just wrong #Demon Slayer

[mwoonie]

aoki + lust for a vampyr = sex

#HES SOOOOOOO TEEHEEHEHEHE #ive been working the whole day long🙄🤷‍♂️ #is he single yeah most likely #i can change that #whaaaat #thank you prinz for showing me this song #my brain is always moving #crayfish #my edit #masato arakawa #ryo aoki #yakuza

[sapphireclaw]

I’ve been having a nice chuckle over the funny Reigen twitter polls going on, but here I draw the line.

I’ll give you two guesses who won.

UNACCEPTABLE. OLIVER ARMSTRONG IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF THE HOTTEST BABE.

SHE SINGLEHANDEDLY MADE ME GAY.

REIGAN’S REIGN OF TERROR MUST END.

#reigansweep #fma #mp100 #also I love how four of the contestants are from FMA. #thank you hiromu Arakawa for the women

[ghostyolive]

Thinking about this Dolcetto sketch that’s in chapter 31 so much. Hrnhnhfnfhfnghgnfh 💓💗💘💕💝💞💖🩷

#thank you so much for this one Arakawa. chewing on him rn #(even if he’s not that skinny in my heart) #fma #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #dolcetto fma

[meridiageek]

Reading two continuous mangas by Hiroma Arakawa at the same time is like taking double emotional damage. I love it but at the same time I suffer

#arslan senki #the heroic legend of arslan #yomi no tsugai #daemons of the shadowAt least my favorite character is still alive. And it looks like everything will b realm #manga #hiromu arakawa #she is my favorite mangaka #but the last chapters were mentally difficult #that's good #characters I like often die or suffer #daemons of the shadow realm #At least my favorite character is still alive. And it looks like everything will be fine with him!! #^ #thank you Miss Arakawa for your the wonderful work

[mazout-fm]

Context : Izuku is stopped by a random thug that starts to threaten him but suddenly stops his rambling. Izuku is all “can I help you dear sir?” But the bloke just runs away. People are weird sometimes.

#thank you hiromu arakawa for the best use of black and white in manga #dadmight #midoriya Izuku #yagi toshinori #all might #mha fanart #izuku mydoria #toshinori yagi #I don’t know how tags work #Japanese and English naming conventions help

[toastedstencils]

you can't gain anything without losing something first. although…if you can endure that pain and walk from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle.

#I love them #thank you hiromu arakawa #I’m so tired I may clean this drawing up in the morning #or delete it and make a whole new drawing we will find out! #october 3rd #fma #fmab #myart #fanart #edward elric #winry rockbell #alphonse elric #fullmetal alchemist fanart #fullmetal alchemist #brotherhood #anime

[leavingautumn13]

What equipment and programs do you use to make your art? Your about says you're self taught, what helped you learn? And does anything specific give you inspiration for your current style or what you'd like to achieve in the future? I really like your art❤️

ahh!! hey, thank you so much!! <3 that's so kind of you to say!!

easy questions first: for digital art i use a wacom intuos tablet and paint tool sai, which is the only setup i've ever used. i've been trying to get into clip studio paint but something about it just doesn't stick with me. i think i need more practice.

for comic panels and lettering i use adobe indesign, and export as png to before putting them in sai.

everything else under the cut so this post isn't miles long

i've been drawing ever since i was a kid, but until middle school i mostly just drew animals or little notebook paper comics about animals. i grew up on a farm so there were lots around, and drawing from life is something i think really helped. like, there's a difference between knowing what a cat looks like and being able to pick one up and see how its bones and muscles fit together, being able to watch it change how it moves around depending on what it's doing, whether it's catching a mouse or playing with another cat or curled up asleep, and being able to break down that anatomy and movement into simple shapes. i'm a pretty visually oriented person so knowing how a thing functions or fits together as simple shapes helps me visualize it in my head and imagine how it would look in different poses or from different angles.

around middle school i moved onto drawing people, again from life while sitting in a cafe or at a park. actually being able to get what's in my head down onto paper in a way that satisfies me is something that i think just took practice. only recently (like, late last/this year) have i been consistently satisfied with the way i draw things.

sorry if that sounds weird or clinical--this is the first time i've been asked to explain how i learned to draw and this is the best way i can think to say it.

honestly, finding my own style has been looking at what i like about other artists' styles and trying to figure out how they achieved that. i did a lot of redraws of other peoples' art as a kid. for me, trying to replicate something makes me really think about why i like the way it looks. i try to lean towards a semi-realistic style--i don't like drawing super realistic all the time, i love cartoons and think they have a lot of character--but i also don't want to lose the underlying anatomy or structure because it helps my brain make sense of stuff. so i try to find the middle of the road, where things are simplified but still structured, if that makes sense.

brief tangent... that's why i draw pokémon the way i do. they're not on model, they're how i imagine they would look if they were real animals, based on the sort of animals they're... uh, based on. so like for this piece, because camerupt is a cow/camel hybrid, i looked at a bunch of pictures of cows laying on their sides, what their hooves and skulls looked like from certain angles, etc. and then i could draw what i wanted.

as for improvements, i need to get better at backgrounds and realistic coloring/lighting. color theory is one of those things that i understand... well, in theory, but when it comes to practice and paying attention to it when i color, i need work. and because i've mostly drawn animals and people my whole life--organic stuff--i find buildings and backgrounds difficult, so i tend to avoid them. and i need to not do that.

#thank you for the ask!! this one really made me think #let me know if you'd like me to clarify anything... i tend to get longwinded and distract myself with tangents. #so idk how clear this is? i really look like the charlie conspiracy board meme trying to explain anything to anybody #bc like there's CONTEXT alright #like i deleted a tangent about how much i love hiromu arakawa and fullmetal alchemist and it was a huge inspiration and #like damn dude that amount of granular detail was not asked for lmao #autumn.ask #autumn.personal

[jichanxo]

more onnagata! thought it'd be fun to have a visual comparison of him doing it while middle aged + older a follow up to this

#masumi arakawa #arakawa masumi #yakuza #like a dragon #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza 7 #rgg #jichanart #usually when i make anything of feminine arakawa it's of him in his 30s #but even when he's older or has facial hair he still rocks it just fyi..... this art is just a reminder.... #masumi has been hit with the gender beam irreversibly. that's all thank you

[todayisafridaynight]

dads and makeup

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza like a dragon #yakuza 7 #masato arakawa #masumi arakawa #jo sawashiro #snap sketches #i just think masato deserves to be embarrassed by his dads #love how i can say that and thats like. 100% canon but not in the way you think #geez masato how come sega let you have TWO dads #it costed him his lungs but i mean he bought those back i guess #anyway i guess this is to cap off my week with my dad. wherein i had this convo nearly word for word #of course i love my dad though so i said thank you tyvm #uhhh i think thats all i have to say for now #i do wanna do more goofy arakawa family stuff but we'll have to hope my brain can think of stuff to do #ok that's all- i have to leave my dad's soon so i should start packing my stuff :( F's in chat boys

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

added ur commentary to the post hope u don’t mind!! was nice to learn the real explanation behind it :)

yes, of course! not at all! i hope i didn't come off as too self-righteous or correct-y or anything. i learned cool things today too because i've only ever read FMA in English, so i didn't even realize automail was one of those types of words until i saw your post :D

#i saw your tags too! don't even worry about it #japanese orthography is wack but very cool #i should probably also clarify that while i do know enough japanese to understand and use it a bit i am not a native speaker #and this is not like. taken from the word of arakawa on her thought process #after i wrote those tags i went down a fun rabbit hole because i couldn't remember what the heck this phenomenon is called #but it's gikun! if you want to learn more then that and ''nonstandard kanji readings'' are good things to look for #''kirakira names'' operate off the same principle and those are a fun thing to read about too #like how Light Yagami from Death Note has his name spelled 月 but pronounced ライト #DONE RAMBLING. DONE. again thank you for the initial post because i love thinking and talking about this stuff

[colleyuriko]

@innerchorus @tired-reader-writer

We’re all feasting tonight XD

(chapter 108)

Honestly so glad the manga is not afraid to not have Arslan in some chapters because you then get to focus on the side characters you like so much. Unlike the anime where the whole story suffers, imo, because they decided to follow Arslan everywhere.

#Arslan Senki #the heroic legend of arslan #Guiscard #Hiromu Arakawa #Thank you for the link!

[siphisket]

Every year I tell myself I’ll draw something for October 3rd, and every year shit goes the fuck down right before October 3rd (;∇;)

#forgive me fullmetal alchemist my beloved #first manga i ever read thank you hiromu arakawa for everything #siphispeaks #fmab #october 3rd

[tamacatleen]

Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist 🦅

The sixth and last of the characters that remind you of me series, according to the poll I did in my Instagram story in August 2022 (already??)

I added Black Hayate as a bonus for the waiting time 🐶

There are different color variations under the cut and the sketch/base and lastly the reference, an illustration by Hiromu Arakawa

Thank you again for your answers on that poll 🫶 It was fun to draw those 6 characters and I'm glad I finished them at last!

Hope you like it 💗✨

#my drawings #drawings #digital art #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #riza hawkeye #black hayate #riza hawkeye fma #black hayate fma #fma #fmab #fma fanart #fanart #anime #manga #characters that remind you of me #fullmetal alchemist fanart #gun tw #tw gun