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Fullmetal Alchemist: Cold Flame, Hot Metal

Hiromu Arakawa, BONES, Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy Mustang, Edward Elric
Hiromu Arakawa Mangaka BONES Studio Fullmetal Alchemist Series Roy Mustang Character Edward Elric Character

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Artist Comment

This vector is a gift, just like Toki wo Kizamu Uta, but this time it is for a friend who is not here on MT. She's a fan of FMA, so I decided to dedicate this vector to her.

When I saw the original scan (linked below), I knew that I would do something with it one day or another. Then, some weeks ago, I stumbled upon it while I was searching for new scans to vector on my HDD. Well, it was impossible for me to ignore the call of that picture; I simply love it, and since the scan was pretty big, but was cursed with jpeg artifacts, I thought that to have a "better" version available would be awesome, and that people would maybe like to do wallpapers with it. The original final result was bigger, but since Minitokyo has a size restriction, I had to resize it.

The title is "Cold Flame, Hot Metal" because of the opposition between fire and steel, and between cold ant hot. Also, this is a kind of interpretation of the characters : even though Roy is the Flame Alchemist, he is usually calm and collected while Ed is more impulsive.

And now, the technical details :

Original scan : This scan, on moe.imouto.org
Extracted PNG : Available on Render-Graphiques or here. (*UPDATE* : it seems that both Render-Graphqiues and tinypic resized the PNG version... I can give you the original one, who is 3953x4673 if you need it; just ask ;) )
Total time : 20 hours, including 1 hour lost with Photoshop crashing...
Easier parts : Coloring! When I was sick and tired of lineart, I was coloring it in order to change my mind (usually, I’m more methodic :P).
Harder parts : The lineart. It wasn’t that hard… it’s only that I used to do it by tracing a path, and then the “Stroke path” option. It was my first attempt at doing lineart using “Fill Path” or Vector masks (like what I use for the coloring). The lines are therefore far from perfect in my opinion, but I’ll welcome any suggestions since I hope to improve myself.
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5.
PSD Size : 66.6 MB
Number of Layers : 59 (2 for the lineart, 1 for the background, the rest for the coloring)
And, a progress pic

NOTE : DO NOT upload elsewhere and claim it as your own work. Please credit if used, and send me a link to your work (either in my guestbook or by MP); I would love to see what you did!

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Comments

  1. kamumu Aug 12, 2010

    roy!~~so handsome`~~
    good job!~
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  2. Dollydi Aug 12, 2010

    Very nice, I realy like this draw ! I like Fullmetal Alchemist .

  3. Suzukaseed Aug 14, 2010

    (^o^)//... Roy and Ed... whoa!... and title is perfect to this vector
    "Cold Flame, Hot Metal"... you are very good creating vectors... I hope
    to be able to make some so good ones as yours... and expressions
    of the boys are also very good... roy looks very handsome... (^.^).

    saludos
    suzukaseed

  4. lenaelric Aug 18, 2010

    For me, it is the best vector of FMA :D

  5. adith04 Aug 23, 2010

    How can I not see this before? This is really good! Awesome vector, and the details are top-notch.. Great job. ^_^

  6. cityofangel Dec 11, 2010

    Love this vector! Great job!..

  7. MysteriousKnight244 Jan 17, 2011

    ahahaha.... i really like it. good job ^_^

  8. Nyaou Mar 04, 2011

    Fma est mon manga pr

  9. kamuinoyume May 02, 2011

    I love this vector! It brings back such fond memories!

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