Fanart A Week: Back from break, honest!

Let's try and get back on track with this 'Drawing a Fanart a Week' thing. The entire point of it was to force me to draw characters I wouldn't normally draw, and also to observe other artist's styles and see why their art works so well, and I think that's something worth continuing. So, Christmas Break over, back to work! Here you go:

IZUMI! Badass lady alchemist/housewife/teacher of our heroes Ed and Al from Fullmetal Alchemist! Over break I got my paws on a bunch of volumes of the manga, and fell madly in love with it. It reminds me a lot of Avater: The Last Airbender in that while it's very much aimed at young boys, it's full of great female characters, and some of the best illustrated fight scenes I've ever seen in a manga. I love it a lot. I don't think there's a single character in it that I don't like, which is pretty amazing. And it's written and drawn by a lady! I was really excited when I found that out. I'm always looking for new lady cartoonists to look up to, and when I find a particularly badass one, well, that's nifty keen.

I'd like to do more FMA fanart, so maybe I'll just continue on with these characters. They're so well designed, it'd be a shame not to do more fanart of them.