Summary of the below: The artist known as Shoriani drew a bunch of hellsing fanart for a period of about five or so years. They dropped off the net due to people being dicks.
This is a scrape of their blog, and then a whole lot more. Due to an issue with Tumblthree at the time that went unnoticed, or possibly because Shoriani did a lot of art trades and post them to their own Tumblr, there is more art in here than just Shoriani. A large swathe of them I can't attribute to any given person.
So rather than painstakingly trying to separate the artists here, I'm going to leave those in here.
What I will say is that of the works I know to be Shoriani, I think they were absolutely a wonderful artist, very skilled. Honestly, I think in a lot of cases they were probably a lot better than Hirano themselves in certain respects _________ Below was a bunch of stuff I was writing before and during the clean up process of the original scrape because I assumed this would be a farily clean and easy task
This blog had been on the todolist for a very long time, a lot like the Shin Midorikawa gallery I uploaded.
This was an artist who drew nothing but Hellsing fanart for about five or so years.
One note, and I'll admit this upfront, is that there's a point in the gallery where I think the tumblr scraper I used at the time fucked up and was scraping reblogs. I'm choosing to just leave them in there just in case.
I believe they deleted their tumblr because for the most part, people are shitty and would harass the artist.
They had a DeviantArt and a Twitter as well, but I missed this.
------ I'm typing all this as I'm going through this stuff and the amount of stuff for which I know is just not Shoriani/shoriori is far too staggering. Like even if for whatever reason I was havingg difficult matching art styles, SOME OF THESE PEOPLE PUT THEIR SIGNATURES ON THEIR ART
But I wanna do this thing justice and if I gotta look through a .txt also detailing the actual post details of this blog to match file names, I'm gonna do it. However, what I may end up also doing is making a "MISC HELLSING FANART" gallery ------
Another update in the process, this has become a vexing issue. So the txt files aren't exactly helping here, and reverse image searching is a gamble because most of these people have also probably destroyed their internet presence.
The only other conclusion I have is that the txt documents are bungled by a fair bit, Shoriani drew a large number of piece I'm uncertain of, and they have had such a good handle of their art fundamentals to wildly shift art styles here and there, and I'm talking about very reasonable.
If I also remember right, they did a lot of art trades and gift art, so for all I know, that's what I'm seeing.
Honestly, it's just too fucking much. Like there's a ton of artists in here who are clearly trying to be close to Kouta Hirano's style, but that then puts me in the problem of me not knowing who is who unless I know all the consistent little details.
AND THEN THERE'S THE FACT I'M UNABLE TO ATTRIBUTE THE ART TO ANYONE IN THE FIRST PLACE
So this isn't really going to be a gallery dedicated entirely to an artist, but to their blog.