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I don't know how to animate (yet), so a slide show with audio will have to do.

It's just a silly very short video, I figured it suited them well (and Izuna is alive, yay!)

Hashirama looks like a ghost, it's so weird to see him white, but I didn't have the patience to do colours, and I think using a grayscale would have looked even weirder.

I'm working on something for pride, hope I get to finish before the end of June (working on stupid things like those is why I'm taking so long)

Anyway, hope you enjoyed, and happy pride!

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Alright, I'm currently working on other drawing with all of the founders, but since I am also writing stuff and looking for funding for my studies (yay), it's taking a bit of time and I still don't have anything for pride month prepared.

So here you go, my first sketches of this man, like, the earliest when I didn't know what to do with his hair (figuring how I should draw it was a journey in itself, I swear)

I think those early drawing of Madara are a good representation of my understanding of the character.

This man, from what we know, is extremely powerful, the only one able to rival the one guy name 'The God of Shinobi', and yet, manages to lose everything. I don't think Madara belives that power is the answer to everything when his experience tells him otherwise.

Madara in the VotE battle doesn't believe in anything but his plan, and maybe he has a shred of hope in Hashirama, but it's eventually destroyed with him stabbing him from his vulnerable spot, his back.

I think that, ultimately, it was Madara's goal, like he said, to cut ties with his humanity by letting himself be killed by Hashirama. In the end, though, he is still very human, with flaws and emotions, even after death, waiting for Hashirama instead of actively making his plan work.

In my opinion, Madara is not mentally stable (shockers, I know) and it's probably mostly due to Izuna's death. I don't believe in the 'curse of hatred' narrative Tobirama seem to push, but rather that it is a pretty understandable reaction to loose your mind when you are torn between the most important person in your life last wish and your own ideals.

Also, because we know for a fact Madara wanted to kill Tobirama (if not torture him) for a while, because he is the one who killed Izuna. But Madara didn't, even if, at least in theory, he probably could. The fact that he probably cared about Hashirama enough to not kill the man who ripped his last little brother from him is an important part of his character.

I'll cut the rant short for now, but I can talk about those founders for hours, none of them are okay (yes, even Tobirama, and yes, especially Hashirama, he doesn't match Madara's freak so well for nothing)

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Alright, I like watercolours, I like drawing Madara, and I like birds of preys, but I'm a bit disappointed with this one for several reason.

First, my inking pen that is water proof and smudge proof smuged when I tried to fix errors with water, which was frustruating...

Second, I feel like a few part of the painting were not great, some pigments are a bit all over the place, and I don't like how th falcon turned out (to be fair, it was the first time I painted a falcon)

But I still found the overall result nice, and I think I should also post art I'm not fully satisfied with anyways.

That's why I started posting sketches over here. Most of those sketches are rushed and made under 20 minutes.

And it's good to post non-perfect art, because if you don't, you'll never post anything, or very rarely.

Alright, back to Madara, I have other sketches of this man here

The first I drew in a style I don't usually draw in, it was really a quick doodle, and the second, even if closer to my usual style, I drew it in the corner of a sheet of paper on which I was solving math equations.

It was really just because Madara as a christmas tree made me laugh.

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Fire, I guess.

(yes, the squiggly lines are meant to be fire, have a little imagination)

I don't know, but fireproof Madara just makes sense in my head. And I know it's not canon, but with how unbothered he looked in the war arc when he was hit with Amaterasu... he might as well be.

Plus, I think it suits him, especially the ability to set himself on fire, it's a great way to represent how emotional this man truly is and the double edged sword it may represent.

And for those two, I just noticed I drew him in the exact same pose twice. Really, I didn't do this on purpose, those two sketches were not done neither with the same intent nor at the same time.

They weren't even done with the same media (the first I made on my phone with my old drawing app)

I just find it funny, and that's why I'm posting them together.

Though I think I need to post some other sketches that are not with Madara, because it looks like I can only draw him, but it's not true!

I just really like the character, and I like his hair, it's fun to draw tbh.

But I swear I know how to draw other characters and subjects, believe me

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Madara has way too much angst potential, I think I should worry about the fact that I kin him...

That aside, this first sketch was one of my early drawing of him, when I was not sure about how exactly I wanted to draw him.

Those, on the other hand...

It's just Madara having a mental breakdown durring his fight against Hashirama (and potentially the rest of the Senju clan) after Izuna's death.

I think it's important to note that in the beginning of Hashirama's flashback, when he and Madara are discovered by their family, he says how emotional instability is a death sentence for a shinobi.

This is a hc I have that Madara went to fight the Senju clan to let himself die by Hashirama's hands, because suicide would be a bad move for his clan and the only one who can kill him in belivable circumstances is Hashirama.

The ultimatum, in the end, was probably just a way for him to corner Hashirama into killing him, the third and only valid option in Madara's mind until Hashirama just shrugs and says 'alright, guess I'll die then' only for Madara to stop him because it wasn't part of the plan, and Madara would've absolutly went nuts (if he wasn't already at this point) and probably kill himself just after.

This is a fun discussion.

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Small Madara with even smaller Izuna (those two are so cute)

Izuna is the definition of a character that had unlimited potential which was never exploited. There is a giant hole in Madara's history when it comes to his childhood, while Hashirama and Tobirama insist that he loved his younger brother more than anything yet it's never truly shown except for how Madara freaked out when he died (I think we should have seen more of the raw devotion and love Madara had for Izuna than just him turning down Hashirama)

I think, Izuna is a character that should have been explored more, but yet again, I also think it could've been nice to have additional content on the warring state/Konoha founding era.

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It's truly a rare occurence to see me draw them together and happy.

But they deserve it, frankly. That and a lot of therapy.

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Pain and suffering, yay!

I like Izuna, even though we didn't get to see much of him. On the other hand, I feel like the toll Madara took after his death could've been explored further, and the way he just calmly empaled a boy with his little brother's face didn't make much sense.

I feel, if Naruto and Sasuke had to fight Madara as the final antagonist, the fact that Sasuke resembles Izuna and Madara is not very stable mentally could've worked in their favor.

To come back to the Uchiha brothers, something to note is how Madara was visibly very protective of Izuna, maybe even raised him himself (that's my headcanon) and he clearly held a grudge against Tobirama for ripping his last brother away from him.

That's why I think the main reason behind Madara's descent to madness was due to Izuna's death, since I don't think being torn between grief and guilt and the duty you have to move on in order to make a village while rekindeling a long lost friendship you thought was doomed is the best way to approach a healing journey as a former child soldier who grew up in a war torn era (it is my belief that all founding era shinobi are mentally f-cked up one way or another)

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Those two needed more interactions, I swear.

Hashirama and Madara are so interesting as characters, yet we barely see anything about them except for the time Itachi straight up lied about Madara, then when Tobi claims to be him, and Hashirama's flashback (which are all told to Sasuke, I feel like there's a pattern.)

I don't know why, but it's something I love to see, when we get to have the childhood of characters who are considered ledgends in the time of the story, and those two are great for this.

You have the first time where you see them, it's edo Hashirama and the statues of the VotE, and for each, they look serious and put together. That is until you have Hashirama who tells us about his and Madara's friendship, and it's very different than what you may expect from those two since they're framed as mortal enemies in the beggining.

(and then, there is the war arc, and every time Madara or Hashirama talk about the other, it's to sing praises about the other's prowesses in battle (especially Madara) or how great they are (Hashirama mostly brags about how kind and gentle Madara is) and I feel like this relationship could go deeper than mere friendship, if you know what I mean (and I don't mean this to undermine the weight a friendship has))

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Alright, I'm new on tumblr, so I'm starting with one of my first chinese ink sketch of Madara. I have months worth of doodles and sketches of this guy because I have a hyperfixation on the founding era of Naruto.

I'll post the rest of my sketches soon enough (I think a few minutes after this post) and I'll try to be a bit more consistant with posting here.

See you, byee