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Do you collect Hetalia merch? Do you want to downsize your merch collection? do you have a box split you want to fill? Interested in merch trades?

Well here's the discord server for you! We're working on building a little community of hetalia merch collectors who want to buy, sell, or trade official or fan made hetalia merch. Please come join us and scope the place out! We're still little and cosy so don't be intimidated :D

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transparents for the header made by @transparentalia

#Hello please look at the server I made

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Trying something new!

Please message me if you're interested in any of these and I will keep this post updated with slots. I should also say that the backgrounds will be super simple as usual - gradients with maybe a little pattern.

Pose 1 (£8): 3 slots

Pose 2 (£10): 3 slots

Pose 3 (£10): 3 slots

Pose 4 (£15): 1 slot

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Commissions are open! with a fresh new commissions sheet including a cheaper Chibi option. For Detailed Character you can have either coloured or just lineart which is the cheaper price listed. I'll send you the sketch and WIPs throughout for your approval.

Message me here for enquires!!

[asking-gereng]

Trying something new!

Please message me if you're interested in any of these and I will keep this post updated with slots. I should also say that the backgrounds will be super simple as usual - gradients with maybe a little pattern.

Pose 1 (£8): 3 slots

Pose 2 (£10): 3 slots

Pose 3 (£10): 3 slots

Pose 4 (£15): 1 slot

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Commissions are open! with a fresh new commissions sheet including a cheaper Chibi option. For Detailed Character you can have either coloured or just lineart which is the cheaper price listed. I'll send you the sketch and WIPs throughout for your approval.

Message me here for enquires!!

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// Arthur's got a guilty pleasure or two tbh...

Okay but do they have any DIFFERENT music tastes?

Arthur: "the screaming kind... I'm not a fan but Lud blasts it when he works out."

(i totally missed an opportunity to have him be listening to Deutschland i know)

#inspired by me and my sister #being the whitest brits u may meet #blasting stormzy and dizzie rascal driving down the road #british culture innit lmao #didn't colour it because I couldn't be fucked besties #i listen to more dizzie than stormzy that's why i put more of him on there

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Hey! Love your content (you were one of the main reasons I like this ship!)

I was interested if you ever plan on reviving the Ghosts Event? I was feeling nostalgic and read through all of it again last night 🙈

I get it if you don't want to.

Thank you for all the stuff you make!!! Have a lovely day.

//hello! Thank you for your question and the compliments lol

With the last season if ghosts approaching it is absolutely tempting. The story I made for this event is entirely completed so if I revived it there wouldn't be a story and I'd go back to when Arthur was alive, or even the adventures of ghost Arthur.

I wouldn't be against it! It just depends on whether I have time lol.

#ooc

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Arthur, Arthur, Arthur, does Ludwig make sure you eat properly?

Ludwig, keep your man well fed or he will disappear if he turns to the side jesus fucking chris

Arthur: "now that you mention it..."

//Ludwig cares very much about the health of those around him and he always makes sure they're eating well, this extends to his friends too. Arthur isn't very good at remembering to eat actual meals and skips breakfast and lunch often.

#hetalia #aph england #aph germany #aph sealand #gereng #geruk #luds love language is acts of service #Arthur also smokes so i reckon that affects his appetite lol

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Thanks for your answer, sorry to made you remember such a painful memory, and yes Prussia is a very good brother ^^

Ludwig: "I'm sure he won't let that get to his head..."

#hetalia #aph #aph prussia #aph germany #german bros

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//ask box is empty! feel free to send the boys some questions

#ooc

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Okay but do they have any DIFFERENT music tastes?

Arthur: "the screaming kind... I'm not a fan but Lud blasts it when he works out."

(i totally missed an opportunity to have him be listening to Deutschland i know)

#hetalia #aph england #aph germany #gereng #geruk

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when you're being mean to me this is who you're being mean to

#feel like i should put this here #I gotta do some art for this blog again lmao.

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Happy Pride month! we're half way through the month and yet I bring you a fun commission style great for icons or stickers!

For £8 you get two characters of your choice in the heart with whatever pride flags you want in the background. The characters will be in a similar pose each time making a heart with their hands.

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Idk if it's been asked already, but on your last post Lud has a huge scar in the upper part of his torso, what happened there to leave such a huge mark?

TW for blood

Ludwig: "its a difficult thing to talk about, but Gilbert did what he had to during a.. mental break of mine. it was to stop me from hurting myself. he's a good brother, I keep it to remind me of what he's willing to do for me, even if it means subduing me. it was a different time when mental health wasnt as well studied as now."

#hetalia #aph germany #aph prussia #love them

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Omg Luciano slay we love a jealous bastard baby omggg

Luciano: "my game is very often interrupted these days..."

#hetalia #2ptalia #2p england #2p russia #2p italy #luciano has a bf but he still crushes hard on archie #viktor is protective of his new love

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I don't know if this has been asked before BUT-

Do you have any shared likes in music? :›

Arthur: "absolutely! music is how our relationship began.."

// around the time i got back into hetalia i was OBSESSED with the 70s german band Kraftwerk, and i still love them. the cultural exchange of music in the 60s-80s between england and germany is how i started shipping them! starting with the beatles influencing young german musicians who started an experimental movement known as 'krautrock' (not a very nice term) that in turn influenced electronic music from the mid 70s onwards, artists like david bowie, gary numan, and omd all have named Kraftwerk as one of their influences. i have a bunch of their vinyls both in german and english. Arthur sent Ludwig a beatles album, which were very consistently in the top charts in germany. they met for every new album, and then when ludwig brought his music, arthur was obsessed and it all went from there. I have a fic about it on ao3 called "are friends electric?" :3 its mostly canon to this blog.

#hetalia #aph england #aph germany #gereng #geruk #im still super into it as you can see

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Could we have a brief tutorial on how you manage your simple pencil-like style, if you don't mind? I have no intentions of copying your work, but I would love tips on making quick but still neat and cute drawings.

// Sure thing! I'm not out here keeping any secrets lmao. The brush I use is the real pencil on CSP, but the derwent pencil on procreate is similar. also I use an iPad and apple pencil, i found they made it a bit quicker but obviously an investment that isn't necessary. Though if you have one, one way to speed up is that if you tap the side of the pencil twice it switches to the eraser.

here are the general settings i use. when I sketch, the brush size is 50, and when i line the brush size is 30 - also I put the stabilisation up to 100% for lines. obvi use multitude of different brush sizes for colouring.

I sketch with any random mid tone and start like this, then fill out the torso

Sketching is always fairly messy. Point is to not give a shit about what it looks like, just get the vibe down.

After torso I throw on the limbs. Usually i sketch out where the ribcage is too if I'm putting detail on the chest. Then I throw on details like the face and clothes

I'll then put down the transparency of the sketch layer and on a new layer throw on the line art. brush size 30, and 100% stabilisation. I have just realised the hands are two different sizes. this happens often because of how quick i try throw together things like this.

As for colouring, blushies go here, and usually i over colour with a large brush and erase around it. For bigger pieces I do a thicker line around the outside of the figure, select the space around it, invert selection, grow selection by 10px, fill in with white, and then use a clipping mask or transparency lock, then you don't have to erase around it. I stick to as few colours as possible and i rarely colour skin unless the character has dark skin cus if I don't it looks strange i've found lol. I use pastels as well, like if i'm colouring in black I colour it grey instead.

AND WE'RE DONE!

Drawings for this blog depending on complexity usually take me anywhere from 20mins to an hour. I'm not fussed about perfection cus I just wanna get them done to answer or doodle my thoughts. Since I started this blog I've gotten way quicker at drawing just cus i was drawing so much when I first started, I was able to adapt the style. I used to do it with like longer faces but somehow it evolved into something more chibi like. I also went through a massive style overhaul when I first started I used to draw something very detailed that took me multiple days, but now I have the simpler style I adapted from doing this which is faster. as you see from my commissions I still have the detailed style, a simple style, and the chibi style which is what I use for the blog.

TLDR; 1 sketch layer, use loose, quick lines. Don't stay stuck on details and perfection, the more you draw the more shortcuts you'll find.

idk if this was necessary brief but there ya go!

#ooc #I don't draw as much as I used to I just can't find the time lmao