Art: England

[pyrrhiccomedy]

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out, since I didn't really know what I thought England looked like 4 realz before I started it.



But goddamn, England. Haircut. I'm serious.

Headcanon: France broke England's nose in three places at the Battle of Castillon (which took place not too long after England had burned his girlfriend at the stake). The French victory at Castillon ended the Hundred Years War, threw the English off the European continent, and ended English territorial ambitions on the continent forever. If you ask England about why his nose is slightly crooked, he has no idea what you're talking about and it must just be the light in here.

It was possibly the most satisfying crunch of France's life.

Comments

[mithrigil.livejournal.com]

I love how realistically you've rendered his distinctive look.

And agreed, agreed on that nose of his, though I placed the break itself a fair bit earlier.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Ooh? When do you break his nose? I hope it was still France. I can't help feeling like France deserves to sock England in the face.

[hi-no-neko.livejournal.com]

brb, adopting some headcanon

Ah, jeez, this is just incredible. The lighting.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ♥

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

Oh, he looks SO angry.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

A perpetual, unfocused glower of disapproval for everyone and everything he surveys seemed more or less necessary to me. XD

[neocloud9.livejournal.com]

Pfft, of course! <3

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

They're such special boys. XD

[windmilltilter.livejournal.com]

Looking very Byronic, England.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Fffff.

I actually kept saying that to myself when I was laying down values for this. XD

"No...no. Needs more Byron."

[meganinhiding.livejournal.com]

My first thought was that Rome or France should've warned England that his face would freeze like that if he wasn't careful. I've had a liking for grouchy characters starting with Oscar in Sesame Street.

The portrait itself is sublime due to the brows, the hair, the green of his eyes and above all else the expression. Not many would actively try to get past that expression.(France and America come to mind)

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

I've had a liking for grouchy characters starting with Oscar in Sesame Street.

OSCAR WAS MY FAVORITE SESAME STREET CHARACTER! =D

I'm really glad you like the picture! I was just messing around, not really meaning to start anything, when I got his expression to come out JUST LIKE THAT in my sketch. And I was like "Well goddamn I guess I'm drawing England, now."

[skelody.livejournal.com]

Saw this on dA first, but your commentary makes everything awesomer.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

I always forget that people can like...talk to each other on DA. >_>

[narcoleptic95.livejournal.com]

PC. I DEMAND YOU MAKE AN ARTBOOK.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

What is it? D=

[hirakareta-sama.livejournal.com]

Oh man those eyebrows. Irl they would prolly scare off poor children with just how Alive they are.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Do not stare too long into the eyebrows, lest the eyebrows begin to stare back into you.

[leifang666.livejournal.com]

that is awesome!

He looks so evil and hot!

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, thank you!

[miss-chella.livejournal.com]

Usually with your fancy art posts, I just stare and stare until the picture is embedded in my memory. I cannot do that with England.
I saw it, and an apology popped out. You made me say Sorry to a picture. I swear to God, you're magic.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Pffhahahahaha!

It's really a portrait of England's Disapproval. England is just the medium.

[sadlygrove.livejournal.com]

He would be such an effective lit teacher; England just guilted me into doing some homework. I literally got up and grabbed my textbook. Bravo. Bravo indeed.

RE: Headcanon; *raises hand* I would totally read that fic, if it ever became one.

[sadlygrove.livejournal.com]

Ah, I figured it out; it's because the eyes have a "You call that a potion, Potter?" gleam about them. Shiver-inducing, really.

[djsoliloquy.livejournal.com]

♥:
1. The realistic look you bestow when you render these characters. It's just so cool. And as always, in love with the hair, even if he needs it cut.

2. Somewhere between the scowl and the brows and the color scheme, I'm getting a total English vibe.

3. Your headcanon. Satisfying crunch, indeed!

4. His eyes. Good god, I am in love with his eyes. All this muted grey and black, and then his eyes. They're just gorgeous. I keep scrolling back up the page to catch a glimpse of them.

And he's about a second away from saying "Bah, humbug!" isn't he.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

LISTS! =D

Somewhere between the scowl and the brows and the color scheme, I'm getting a total English vibe.

It's all the foggy greys and blues. Every Regency film ever made uses a filter like that as soon as the characters go out for their requisite Tense Walk on a Misty Day.

And he's about a second away from saying "Bah, humbug!" isn't he.

I think of that as more or less England's ongoing state.

[rotifora.livejournal.com]

You are awesome. The expression overall is how I picture England, even the broken nose. So angry and MISUNDERSTOOD. The pose also strikes me like he is giving a cold shoulder or something. Very dramatic.

-loves-

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! =D I think England can cut a very, gosh, a very iconic figure at times, you know? With his whole Byronic schtick, which he is totally unaware of and would never think of as a schtick, which only makes him more Byronic.

[mcelligots-pool.livejournal.com]

Oh, just bend me over the table and take me England.

Oh god, the textures on his skin.
Those eyebrows are so manry~

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

He is a weirdly sexy bastard, isn't he? XD

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is fantastic! I love his expression and the dark colours pointed up by his eyes and hair.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm really happy with how the colors turned out in this. =D

[fallenxembers17.livejournal.com]

That man looks like he is srsly about to slap a bitch. (Bitch being France, of course.)

Regardless. This whole thing is lovely, but. Holy crap those eyes. They like, jump out and pin you to your chair.

Also. Adopting new headcanon now~.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

As much as I try.

AS MUCH AS I TRY.

I can't quite stop finding something terribly romantic about England. *sigh* Or his ~intense green eyes.~

[jinsai.livejournal.com]

*cheers both you and France*

That's what you get for burning people's girlfriends at the stake England!

And this is so incredibly gorgeous! The problem I have with so many England fanarts is that they make him little and cute. In yours, I can see both his 'human age' and a sense of more than that. I love the intensity to him - he's quite handsome despite those eyebrows, and looks like the gentleman, but looking at him you really get the feeling he has his darker punk/piratey side as well.

It really is just perfect! Will you be doing others? I hope so. I would love to see more! (Edit: That is, you have done more. Do you plan to continue doing them on occasion?)

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course! =D I like doing the portraits, and I tend to turn one out whenever I have a bit of time and a decent idea of what I want the finished picture to look like. I'm not sure who I'll do next, though.

[tauruschick12.livejournal.com]

FUCK YEAH FRANCE.

Your head canon fits nicely with my head canon of this time...mind if I adopt it? XD

I've always thought that after Joan died, France acted weird around England for a long while....(Basically, because I think that when they're fighting France is just jokey-dickish and England angry-dickish) but after she died, France was just dead serious and all cold for a long while, throwing England off guard quite a bit. Is that a weird head-canon? XD

And of course may I just say WHY ARE YOU SO TALENTED DAMN YOU. DAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNN YOUUUUUUU WHO DO I HAVE TO KILL AROUND HERE TO BE A GOOD WRITER *AND* A GOOD ARTIST OF EPIC PROPORTIONS LIKE YOU.

Man, you're my idol. *sob*

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

mind if I adopt it? XD

All yours. XD

DAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNN YOUUUUUUU

... D=

... *looks around*

...*rubs balloon on own head; hands it to you*

Does...does that help?

[cleartempest.livejournal.com]

dsaglkah your realistic portraits are amazing. I love his expression, too, he looks so angry with those brows all furrowed. XD Not to mention those eyes. ♥

Also I LOVE YOUR HEADCANON.
It was possibly the most satisfying crunch of France's life.
France shoulda done moar

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

France shoulda done moar

He laughed his ass off when England sank into an interminable civil war right afterwards? XD

I'm glad you liked the picture! ♥

[twistedsheets10.livejournal.com]

Holy God England. Yep. Love the look. And the broken nose and the bit about the lighting oh my God. Oh England. You grouch.

That England's nose got broken by France is just. Ahahaha. Those two.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

That England's nose got broken by France is just. Ahahaha. Those two.

They're precious, ain't they? XD I don't even know if I can be said to "ship it," because I don't necessarily see it as romantic or sexual, but I think their relationship is fascinating.

[ryoku-chan.livejournal.com]

Those brows! I also must tell you that I love his eyes. That tint of blue fits, but isn't overbearing. I love that slight contrast. Oh, and the glare, the angry glare is great~

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! =D

[thewaterbandit.livejournal.com]

Eyebrooooooows! So belligerent! I love this because England doesn't look cute or pretty here, he looks like what he is, which is a grumpy big-eyebrowed jerk. And the misty blue-green colours are very fitting. I can just imagine England having this portrait on his wall or something. Because he would have pictures of himself hanging around.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

I have always imagined England's house being full of portraits of important (at the time) but now obscure (woefully! Woefully obscure!) noblepersons of various descriptions.

Like dear Lord, ah, *COUGHahem,hmph* on the west wall, if you'll have a look, the sixth, ah, earl of...*mumbleCOUGH,tiestraighten* Yes. Who embodied the great British virtues of, ah...a number! A number of very fine British virtues! Ohhh, that's what the world needs more of today, men of excellence, like Lord, ah...Lord..._{*CLEARthroat, ah, yes, but do listen to me go on, would you like to sit down? Maybe some tea?*}

And so England always keeps his portrait on the wall, to remind him of...ah...something.

XD

[clover-magic.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know your portraits are what I am basing my tweaked version of Hetalia Sims to upload on. I love how my Russia ended up. They just look so realistic, but they're still got that feel of animation about them, so it's easy to translate between real-life and anime and... -babbles-

I love the eyebrows. -staaaares- And the eyes, and, well, everything, really. I think England is going to be my third-favorite potrait of yours, after Ivan and Roderich (because helloooo Austria ♥). He's just gorgeous.

Now I can't wait for America. Ffff. ♥

I am sorry, I suck and I don't get on LJ often. Beat me to talk more often. D:

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

The reason I have not done any more Hetalia Sims is because my game got corrupt and I lost MY WHOLE TOWN AND ALL OF MY SIMS.

*Sob*

I'm glad you like it! =D But beatings are not nice. D=

[blindeadmcjones.livejournal.com]

Oh er I came to your journal for some reason and now I'm here. And I've completely forgotten why because wow.

the song about Mr Scrooge from the muppet christmas carol just sprang unbidden to my head.

This is wonderful like nothing else! Just wonderful.

[pyrrhiccomedy.livejournal.com]

I came to your journal for some reason and now I'm here. And I've completely forgotten why

That happens to me a lot, too. With my own journal. XD

Thank you, I'm flattered that you like it! ♥