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This is for the traditional clothing contest. I chose Hungary Well this is awkward, but never mind about that sentence. It's a long story, but something happened, and I wasn't able to be a part of the contest.

Well here's a picture of Hungary anyway

I wanted to draw a traditional dress, so I automatically narrowed myself down to female characters ( I didn't want to draw a crossdresser. Not enough crack yet XD). Hungary is one of my favourite characters so, I decided to do research for her traditional clothing. I have one thing to say for the research.

ASDFEJLG

I spend several hours trying to figure out which is really her traditional dress, and annoyingly, each dress I found were different from the others, which makes me wonder if they were really Hungary's traditional clothes at all. At first I wanted to draw her dancing to some kind of folk dance, but none of the dresses looked the same, or the dance needed two people etc. One common dress I did manage to find was a dress which Hungary above is now in, and features embroidery that apparently is quite common in Hungarian traditional clothes (they usually had flowers and leaves on it), so I decided to draw that, even though the detail of those flowers made me want to have my head explode. I have a new found respect for people actually doing that embroidery now.

The colour of her dress does have some significance. Apparently, red is the colour for happiness, life and stuff like that. Also it had protective power. Well Hungary managed to keep her country so I guess she would have protective power, and even though she's over 1000 years old, she looks quite young (red is worn by the young I think), so I thought it was an ideal colour for her.

So you're probably asking yourself, why she is pouring water on herself, and why is the title "A Tradition in Hungary"? I'll answer that now.

During my search for a traditional dress, I ran across some traditions in Hungary. One of said traditions occur during Easter. While nowadays they sprinkle them with cologne, boys used to go to girls houses with a bucket of scented water, or drag them to a creek or a well or something (I was going to draw a river, but it turned major fail, so sorry about the inaccurately of the background. Trust me, its a lot better than if I was to draw a house or something) and "sprinkle" them with the water, (even though in the pictures it looks more like splashing them with it.)
Well we all know that Hungary used to think she was a boy, so I thought that she out of all people, would completed both sides of the ritual and thus pour it on herself. And yes that is water, not blue radioactive sludge. Just so you know.

By the way, sorry if there is any inaccuracies with either the dress, or the information given here. I did do my research, but the internet has been wrong before...

By the way, if you wish to critique, please do. I love to hear how my art could improve in later works. I just don't have a subscription, that's all.

Description
This is for the traditional clothing contest. I chose Hungary Well this is awkward, but never mind about that sentence. It's a long story, but something happened, and I wasn't able to be a part of the contest.

Well here's a picture of Hungary anyway

I wanted to draw a traditional dress, so I automatically narrowed myself down to female characters ( I didn't want to draw a crossdresser. Not enough crack yet XD). Hungary is one of my favourite characters so, I decided to do research for her traditional clothing. I have one thing to say for the research.

ASDFEJLG

I spend several hours trying to figure out which is really her traditional dress, and annoyingly, each dress I found were different from the others, which makes me wonder if they were really Hungary's traditional clothes at all. At first I wanted to draw her dancing to some kind of folk dance, but none of the dresses looked the same, or the dance needed two people etc. One common dress I did manage to find was a dress which Hungary above is now in, and features embroidery that apparently is quite common in Hungarian traditional clothes (they usually had flowers and leaves on it), so I decided to draw that, even though the detail of those flowers made me want to have my head explode. I have a new found respect for people actually doing that embroidery now.

The colour of her dress does have some significance. Apparently, red is the colour for happiness, life and stuff like that. Also it had protective power. Well Hungary managed to keep her country so I guess she would have protective power, and even though she's over 1000 years old, she looks quite young (red is worn by the young I think), so I thought it was an ideal colour for her.

So you're probably asking yourself, why she is pouring water on herself, and why is the title "A Tradition in Hungary"? I'll answer that now.

During my search for a traditional dress, I ran across some traditions in Hungary. One of said traditions occur during Easter. While nowadays they sprinkle them with cologne, boys used to go to girls houses with a bucket of scented water, or drag them to a creek or a well or something (I was going to draw a river, but it turned major fail, so sorry about the inaccurately of the background. Trust me, its a lot better than if I was to draw a house or something) and "sprinkle" them with the water, (even though in the pictures it looks more like splashing them with it.)
Well we all know that Hungary used to think she was a boy, so I thought that she out of all people, would completed both sides of the ritual and thus pour it on herself. And yes that is water, not blue radioactive sludge. Just so you know.

By the way, sorry if there is any inaccuracies with either the dress, or the information given here. I did do my research, but the internet has been wrong before...

By the way, if you wish to critique, please do. I love to hear how my art could improve in later works. I just don't have a subscription, that's all.