Fullmetal Alchemist Art: "Safe"
I don't really crosspost, but I've been fairly active over on deviantART for the past few months, and I've gotten the the point with my Fullmetal Alchemist art at least where I don't need to follow references so closely anymore and can start imagining my own scenes.
Ed and Al, set early on in the recovery year following the transmutation. I imagine Ed's just had a particularly rough day, or a nightmare, or both, and Al's trying to help him get some rest.
Graphite plus a combination of a few photoshop filters.
Preview:
This scene is actually semi-based on a snippet from a post-manga fanfic I wrote called "Quarantine," which is fairly Al-centric, but includes this bit:
"Besides," he added, "I owe you for sticking by me for a year's worth of automail recovery."
"No, you don't." It was Al's turn to roll his eyes.
"Still." He tapped his left knee. "That big old tin can body of yours was a hell of a lot better than any icepack, let me tell ya."
That had been especially true that winter and early spring. His memory from that time was a haze of fever, delirium, drugs, the agony of nerves being fused to wire and screws being drilled into bone.
And the long days and nights between and after the surgeries spent curled up against cold steel.
Of course, all the fleeting relief that that had provided had always been followed fast with the raw, gnawing fear that Al hated him for what he'd done.
He wished he'd realized then that the contrary was true.
The master post is here: http://crazybeagle.livejournal.com/11582.html The second chapter has its own lovely artwork, a gift from dzioo, included at the end.
My dA account: http://crazybeagle.deviantart.com/