fma fanart (Mei & Al, finished version)

[astridv]

Title: Above the clouds
Recipient: lalikaa
Rating: PG

This was created for fma_ladyfest; check out the comm for some excellent fic and art dedicated to the many great ladies of Fullmetal Alchemist.

I went with the prompt: Al goes to Xing to see if Mei Chang can teach him Eastern alchemy.
Xiao Mei also stars. :)




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Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Beautiful! I love the texture of the trees, and the rope bridge way off in the background.

[astridv]

(I'm waay behind on replies, sorry...)

Thanks! For a while I cursed that rope bride. ;) Because I drew the foreground separately from the background, and there there was this element that connected the two so I couldn't shift everything around as much as I wanted. But of course that element is totally necessary to keep the pic together.

Also, I have a thing for rope bridges and the like. :)

[stultiloquentia]

Hee! The big rope bridge is beautiful, but I actually meant I'm enchanted by the teeny tiny one waaay back, that apparently goes straight into the blank cliff face. I love its whimsy. When I was a kid, whenever I saw a large, interesting rock formation like that, I would imagine it hollowed out, a secret city, or stronghold, or bolthole. So I looked at yours and felt this lovely, odd little moment of connection with you.

[astridv]

When I was a kid, whenever I saw a large, interesting rock formation like that, I would imagine it hollowed out, a secret city, or stronghold, or bolthole.

That's funny, I did that too. I'd imagine things like that everywhere in nature. To this day I have a love of miniatures of all kinds.

[sqbr]

Oh my, this is lovely, and just how I imagine things went.

[astridv]

Thanks! Cute icon btw. :)