I've been wanting to do a Fullmetal Alchemist piece for awhile now, but I was stuck on trying to come up with something that hadn't been done at least a hundred times over already Then ~PZB brought over the first dvd the other night and we were talking about how much we both liked the coat and it hit me it would be fun to do something centered on that. First off, it's a cool coat, second, it's one of those iconographic things that you can easily relate to the show while still maintaining a degree of subtlty. Ok, bright red coat, not all that subtle, but you know what I mean

It's funny because *Tenshiryuu tried to tell me about this show almost a year ago, but sadly, resources being what they are, I hadn't been able to check it out until Cartoon Network started running it. Have to say, I'm pretty hooked now, though. All of the characters are really pretty well developed and it has a good balance between the drama and the comedy.

Medium: Lineart done with Col-erase brown pencil, painting done in Painter 8

Fullmetal Alchemist and the character of Edward Elric is copyright Arakawa Hiromu