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First, dA's category system has thrown me a daft one again. This is fanart for Axis Powers Hetalia, a wecomic-turned-manga-soon-to-become-animé-too by Himaruya Hidekaz, featuring hilariously personified versions of all the countries at the times of the world wars, insofar as I gather. There's some spectacular stereotyping, and it's all in really good humour and I nearly laughed my face off like...too many times to count.

(For those of you like me who can't read a character of Japanese, the Hetalia Livejournal community is doing a great job translating the strips and generally fantarding around. :3)

OH YEAH this is Russia, aka Ivan Braginsky. His translated profile at the community is here.

SO this is ALSO primarily fanart for the fanfic Most Immortal Mode of Communication by metallic-sweet. If you like Hetalia and haven't read it, do so; it's beautiful. I don't even actively ship the (fluffy) RussiaxChina it contains but I think it broke my heart at least a little bit.

At the time when I was reading it, I was listening to the Tarzan Soundtrack, and for anyone who cares to know: the song Two Worlds Finale came on, and the climactic part (0:50 to about 1:03 for the really pedantic) overlaid my reading of Russia opening and unraveling his present, a red phoenix scarf (symbolising how Russia has always recovered from the damage it is dealt). I just got the strongest inspiration, it was like having an indelible image plastered over my eyes. 8) I haven't had such a strong, unchanging image in my head for something for ages; it's been one of those images that I'd work on incessantly and especially ending up at odd times of night. (I had promised myself that I'd start going to bed before 3am, LMFAO.) Originally it was going to be flat colour, then just toned, and then I thought soddit and finished it with backlighting. :XD: I fail at cutting down projects.

But I think it turned out exactly how I imagined it. Which...never happens. Made me happy. :3 I hope you like it, metallic-sweet. If anyone wants to use it as a wallpaper (it looks fine with black top/bottom borders for anything more square than a 16:9 aspect ratio), this is 1024 wide and if you hit Download there's a 1280 wide one. x) EDIT: here's a 1600 one if you want.

So this is the other bit of xmas art you get, a genuinely happy Russia. :) I think the (childlike, quietly insane) portrayal of him in Hetalia canon and most fics really works, but I really wanted to draw him with that genuine smile. :3

Russia/Ivan Braginsky and Axis Powers Hetalia are © to Himaruya Hidekaz
Most Immortal Mode of Communication is © to metallic-sweet
Manipulated, stretched, squished and curved phoenix lines are from here, free to my knowledge
Image is © to me (=apocalypsebunny)
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X-I-L2048's avatar
I love the meaning behind this picture. =D I like seeing Russia genuinely smile, too. You did a great job! :clap: