#hws bahrain

Artists and their muses | Island Nation beach party! | Celebrating the useless Italy comic! All the pieces I drew for the Draw a Circle, That’s Hetalia! zine that I hosted to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Hetalia!!! The last piece is also the cover of the Zine, and is a redraw of the first ever hetalia cover!! Please check it out and go support all the amazing artists and writers that contributed!!!

Dreadfully late to the game as ever, but eid mubarak <333 smth came up which meant i wasnt able to go all out as much as I wanted to on this, but I wanna say thank you to everyone following me in these past two years

And thank u esp to both my friends who provided resources for eid traditions in their countries, and @letttalias for helping me with coloring this and on Pakistan's henna!!! I wouldnt have been able to finish this without her help 💞

From left to right, top to bottom:

Egypt, w a fanoos lantern

Bahrain, w a bucket for girgaon (where children dress up in traditional clothing and trick or treat during the 15th night of ramadan)

Uzbekistan, making nishaldo (a type of Uzbek dessert once exclusively eaten for Ramadan)

Senegal, all dolled up for the big night

Maldives, singing raivaru (a type of Maldivian traditional singing)

Algeria, hands full with pastries

Pakistan, bedecked out with henna

MISC ART DUMP 4

from top to bottom, left to right:

Turkey, Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan goes on Turkey’s podcast)

Lebanon, Palestine (The dress leb is wearing came frm one of zuhair murad’s collections btw)

Singapore (Oh you’re dominant and sterile? Why don’t you make sure your paper work is laminated and sterilized?)

Bahrain (subscribe to her channel right now 😡😡)

Israel, Singapore (some art i drew for a meme lol)

Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Iraq (This is so old so that’s why like Iraq and Azerbaijan look weird haha)

Madagascar (This was an Instagram art trade for a mutual’s beautiful madagascar oc!!!)

Aztec Empire, Mexico (Insta art trade for @dahliamorena​‘s lovely mexico oc and aztec oc!!)

BONUS:

They certainly do have a very interesting relationship! Gosh.... you're right Saudi is technically her uncle, even if he is significantly younger than Bahrain's mother LOL

They have a... complicated relationship? Due to the sensitive nature of the irl Saudi-Arabia-Bahrain relationship, I'm not gonna get into the nitty gritty details, but suffice it to say, Saudi Arabia sees Bahrain as his responsibility and a lot of what she is able to do hinges on his approval or at least, absence of outright rejection. Otherwise though, Saudi most lets her keep to herself as long as she doesn't cause trouble (like turning towards Iran) and it is his money that she uses to buy games and yaoi with 😂 they don't really talk about Bahrain's mother or Saudi Arabia's relationship with her, cuz Saudi Arabia purposefully keeps that information away from her, and because he's a repressed mfer who never talks about anything that makes him feel vulnerable ever ™️

MISC ART DUMP 2

from top to bottom, left to right:

South Korea and Japan (Unidentified anime, circa 1980s)

South Korea and Japan (Genga edition)

China (squints)

UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Palestine (Shami on khaleeji violence)

Algeria (This was actually my first real attempt to redesign him!)

Algeria, Tunisia and Libya (Algeria and Libya have no idea what this is for)

Djibouti, Algeria, Israel, Ghana (booted out)

BONUS:

MISC ART DUMP 3

I tripped over and remembered I actually have a bunch of drawings saved up for larger posts that never came to fruition so have them while they’re within my brain attention span (alot of this shit dates back to 2021 or even 2020 so thats why its so uggo)

from top to bottom, left to right:

Belarus (chillin)

Iran, Afghanistan (Two greatly contrasting viewpoints)

Yemen, bby Oman (Oman got his ass beat by one of Saudi Arabia’s bros and Yemen got conscripted rip)

Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia (this is so ancient please don’t look at it)

Tarquinia/Etruria (No idea how accurate the colors are, but I do remember basing the jewelry after actual artifiacts)

Central African Republic/Centrafique (Centrafrique was meant to be a man originally, and this was one of the first drawings I did to try and redesign her!)

Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan (Jfc south sudan is yuge)

Malawi (Still not 100% happy with her design, but I still like this!)

Rwanda, Burundi (A Rwandan tourism twitter account liked this)