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Genre/Fandom: meme, Star Trek Reboot
Characters/Pairings: Spock, James T. Kirk, Uhura, Keenser, Enterprise, Borg, Kirk/Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Keenser
Media: pencil drawings, digitally pasted into the template
Notes/comments: Here’s the link to the blank template.
Fandom: DC Comics
Characters/Pairings: Nightwing (Dick Grayson)
Media: acrylic paint
Notes/comments: I tried the scratching thing again, and unlike in my previous try with Robin I used this time only acrylics rather than supposedly water resistant ink. It was slightly harder to scratch (it sometimes sort of chipped?), but at least it didn’t dissolve when I painted over it. Additionally this time I remembered to scan the lineart and b/w scratched only inbetween stage in case something went wrong again after all. But I had no mishaps this time. \o/
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), finished image — screen resolution (ca. 268k)
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), detail — high resolution (ca. 152k)
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), line art — screen resolution (ca. 232k)
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), b/w scratched image — screen resolution (ca. 320k)
Fandom: DC Comics
Characters/Pairings: Robin III (Tim Drake)
Media: mixed media (ink, acrylic paint, chalk pastels, razor blade)
Notes/comments: This turned out rather more mixed media than planned, due to me trying to salvage the image from the completely blotched state that was the result of a supposedly water-resistant ink being quite soluble in specific circumstances after all. So it looks rather different from what I imaged, and not nearly as nice as a promising pre-blotch inbetween state did (which I unfortunately didn’t scan), that had more texture and scratched gradients, but the black ink dissolved when I tried adding the color highlights and thus the ink ran into them. Also as usual the scanner didn’t actually scan the colors as they are on the paper, though I tried to correct it as best as I could to compensate for that piece of color blind crap. Um, well, I usually try not talk this much about everything that went wrong (it doesn’t give a good audience bias) but this was a very frustrating evening, and I can’t help the venting.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a diricawl
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: This is the third in my magical creatures series, a diricawl encyclopedia plate this time, showcasing their escape method. The crosshatching in this took me forever. Okay, a couple of hours, but it felt like forever. Also, after I had already drawn that predator cat, it occurred to me that HP canon says they come from Mauritius, so there wouldn’t have been any cats. Oops. OTOH maybe some magical cat preyed on them, I mean, why would they have developed the vanishing thing otherwise? Without enemies they would really been like the dodo I think. Anyway: *handwave*
diricawl — screen resolution (ca. 316k)
diricawl, detail — high resolution (ca. 300k)
diricawl, detail — high resolution (ca. 112k)
Fandom/Genre: Sandman
Characters/Pairings: Morpheus, Matthew
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
Notes/comments: This was my Yuletart gift for Rasetsunyo. Besides Morpheus and Matthew, Rasetsunyo mentioned in the requests (for another, non-Sandman fandom) the Egyptian pantheon, and also liking crossovers. This isn’t really a crossover with the other fandom, but I thought it would still work to mix Morpheus into in one of the classic scenes of the Egyptian afterlife, i.e. the Weighing of the Heart. So there’s Anubis weighing the heart against the feather of truth, Thoth keeping the records, and Ammit (the crocodile/lion/hippo mix demon) waiting to eat the unworthy hearts. I decided to show the waiting soul as Ba with a bird body and human head. I’m not sure why Morpheus is there, but I figured that the Egyptians connected their afterlife underworld to the night and to the journey of the sun might be good enough for this Endless to show up there.
Weighing of the Heart, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 372k)
Weighing of the Heart , detail — high resolution (ca. 160k)
Weighing of the Heart , detail — high resolution (ca. 224k)
Weighing of the Heart , detail — high resolution (ca. 56k)
Fandom/Genre: SGA/Merlin/Numb3rs cartoon
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, Don Eppes, Charlie Eppes
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I felt like trying something cartoon-style that didn’t involve big-nosed creatures, so I picked my currently favorite fandoms and forced the poor characters into a Christmas card… *G*
Christmas Card — screen resolution (ca. 140k)
Genre/Fandom: Drawble / DCU, SGA, original
Characters/Pairings: furries, dragons, batmobile, John Sheppard
Media: pencil, fine liner pen
Notes/comments: Drawbles I did for various people on request in my LJ. These were either based on prompts or on interests I picked from their profile pages.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a red cap
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: Some time ago I drew a bowtruckle supposed to look like an excerpt from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. I wanted to do more in this style and did a poll which creature I ought to draw next. The red cap got two votes, all others either zero or one (it wasn’t a popular poll, heh), so here it is. Admittedly my turn around time isn’t exactly fast. I also have to give credit to Amelia Eve for suggesting a title for this imaginary work, because I couldn’t come up with anything, and she commented with several options in the bowtruckle post.
red cap — screen resolution (ca. 260k)
red cap, detail — high resolution (ca. 196k)
Genre/Fandom: DCU (Sandman)
Characters/Pairings: Matthew the raven
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: Even though I thought of Matthew while drawing this, it could be just as well some random raven — I mean, I didn’t include anything Dreaming specific. Unfortunately it also isn’t a very good sketch: something about the proportions isn’t right between the body and the head, I think, but it is the first time I’ve tried drawing a raven that I recall, so taking that into account it did turn out *that* bad. I also tried to figure out flying ones, so there are a couple smaller odd birds that may or may not look like ravens too. Anyway, I have very little shame when it comes to posting slightly misshapen results. (No drawer-art here… *g*)
Genre/Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I did this for the Painted Spires Halloween challenge. While it isn’t Halloween anymore where I am, it still is elsewhere, so I hope this still counts as October posting too…
Maybe I’ve just watched the Peanuts Halloween special too often, but I couldn’t help but think that at some point John must have dressed up as WW I Flying Ace for Halloween just like Snoopy. So here’s a pencil sketch of John Sheppard on Halloween 1975, as he’s going trick-or-treating.
John Sheppard Halloween ‘75, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 84 k)
John Sheppard Halloween ‘75, detail — high resolution (ca. 48k)
Genre/Fandom: Drawble / various
Characters/Pairings: rats, dragons, Iron Man, Severus Snape, the Impala, …
Media: pencil sketches
Notes/comments: Drawbles I did for various people on request in my LJ. These were either based on prompts or on interests I picked from their profile pages.
Fandom/Genre: Stargate: Atlantis / Avatar: The Last Airbender Fusion
Characters/Pairings: Teyla as Waterbender
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
Notes/comments: I did this for the prompt “SGA/Avatar the Last Airbender crossover” for the SGA fanart fest Painted Spires, as additional fanart for the Amnesty Week. This is more a fusion than a crossover, but I think it’s still within the prompt’s parameters. Originally this was supposed to be a series of portraits with each of the team matched with an element from Avatar (I thought after Teyla I’d do Rodney as Earthbender, Ronon as Firebender, and John as Airbender), but I only managed to finish Teyla in time to still post (just barely) during Amnesty Week.
Teyla as Waterbender, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 192k)
Teyla as Waterbender, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 160k)
Teyla as Waterbender, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 212k)
Teyla as Waterbender, detail — high resolution (ca. 152k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a bowtruckle
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: While the drawing is finished, I hope there’ll be better text eventually that would make it seem more like an excerpt from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. For now I’ve just added some text labeling it like a plate in an encyclopedia would be, so you have to imagine the suitable text going with it. Its style is supposed to reminiscent of early encyclopedias, like Diderot’s from the 18th century with copperplate engravings of observed plants and animals. My attempt at this isn’t very convincing because this is the first time I’ve done a b/w picture in ink with crosshatching since I think 9th? grade when we learned the technique in school, but considering that it is not so bad. I may do more HP beasts in this style eventually as part of this imaginary book too, but I haven’t decided which yet.
bowtruckle — screen resolution (ca. 272k)
bowtruckle, detail — high resolution (ca. 200k)
Fandom/Genre: Stargate: Atlantis Steampunk AU
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard & Steampunk!Puddlejumper
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
Notes/comments: I did this for the prompt “Victorian steampunk AU” for the SGA fanart fest Painted Spires. Admittedly mechanical pterodactyls aren’t the most efficient way for a flying machine, Steampunk or otherwise, and not a very likely or even possible path technology would take from an SF standpoint, but this way was much cooler visually than merely changing the puddlejumpers with pipes or gauges or whatever. I mean, they more or less look like flying lunch boxes. Not really realistic technology, but this is Stargate after all, and I’m pretty sure John would think that mechanical, flying dinosaurs were cool.
The original is 30×40cm, so unfortunately I had to scan it in two parts, and you can see a slight line where I merged, because I fail at digital manipulation and didn’t know how to make the two parts fit completely seamless.
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 168k)
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 188k)
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 244k)
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, detail — high resolution (ca. 228k)
Fandom: DC Comics (Green Arrow)
Characters/Pairings: Roy Harper (back when he was Speedy)
Media: Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: This took me a really long time, and I don’t just mean that I first had the idea for this in 2006. I have no idea what I am doing wrong that digital coloring takes me so long, isn’t it supposed to be efficient? I suppose it’s one of the pitfalls of being self-taught. Anyway, it’s Roy during the famous heroin addict story line. As always, feedback is very welcome.
Junkie!Roy — screen resolution (ca. 116k)
Junkie!Roy, detail one — high resolution (ca. 72k)
Junkie!Roy, detail two — high resolution (ca. 40k)
Fandom/Genre: Stargate: Atlantis / His Dark Materials Fusion
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, the team’s dæmons Nioke, Keho, Tykallita, and Imara
Media used: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian
ink, acrylic paint, a little bit colored pencils
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: This is an illustration for Trinityofone’s SGA/HDM story Dæmonology, John and Teyla and their respective dæmons are sparring with each other, while Ronon’s and Rodney’s dæmons watch (these two themselves are somehow offscreen). The story itself is McKay/Sheppard slash, but the picture is very much gen.
The faint, yet still annoying line in the middle where the colors don’t quite match is there because the paper of the original is of a larger format than my scanner, so I had to scan it in two parts, and didn’t manage to make them fit perfectly.
Astrid helped me fix some perspective and relative size and positioning problems in an earlier pencils sketch of this. The illustration is much better for it. Any remaining problems however are my fault.
illustration for Trinityofone’s Dæmonology, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 184k)
illustration for Trinityofone’s Dæmonology, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 180k)
illustration for Trinityofone’s Dæmonology, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 256k)
illustration for Trinityofone’s Dæmonology, detail one — high resolution (ca. 208k)
illustration for Trinityofone’s Dæmonology, detail two — high resolution (ca. 72k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Kingsley Shacklebolt
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a tiny bit of white conté chalk
Notes: I’ve already illustrated the epilogue of this story a while back, but always wanted to draw this Snape/Shacklebolt scene in the alley. Now, with barely two years delay, I got around to it. The relevant bit from Beth’s In From the Cold is: “Severus loosened his grip on Kingsley’s shoulders and slid his hands down Kingsley’s arms. He stopped when he reached the ends of Kingsley’s sleeves, encircled Kingsley’s strong-boned wrists with his fingers, then pulled Kingsley’s arms up over his head. Severus transferred his hold of Kingsley’s right wrist so that both of Kingsley’s hands were pinned against the brick wall by one of his own, then Severus slowly lowered his other hand until it came to rest on the top of Kingsley’s head.
Severus ghosted his long, sensitive fingers over Kingsley’s scalp, surprised by each tiny bump and dip in what seemed perfectly smooth from a distance. He slid his hand down along the side of Kingsley’s head, and he could feel Kingsley lean into his palm while Severus traced along the edge of Kingsley’s ear with his thumb, clicking his thumbnail softly against the small silver hoop that hung from the lobe. Severus leaned in and took the earring in his mouth, turning the hoop slowly with his tongue.”
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, initial pencil drawing — screen resolution (ca. 308k)
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, inks — screen resolution (ca. 304k)
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 320k)
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, detail — high resolution (ca. 222k)
I’ve also written some commentary on drawing this picture with scans and photos of the inbetween stages.
Genre/Fandom: Temeraire Series
Characters/Pairings: Iskierka
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a bit of white conté chalk
Notes/comments: This illustrates Iskierka’s hatching. I hope she looks enough like a baby while still fitting the description that they look just like smaller versions of the big ones. But making the head long and lean like I normally do for dragons to make them look ferocious didn’t work for me for a baby dragon. The coloring didn’t turn out quite like I intended, and for some reason my scanner not only produced a weird stripe artifact that I couldn’t get rid of (it is not that intrusive, but still), it also reproduced the colors less bright than in the actual picture.
Iskierka’s hatching, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 184k).
Iskierka’s hatching, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 172k)
Iskierka’s hatching, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 172k)
Iskierka’s hatching, detail of the head — high resolution (ca. 136k)
I’ve also written some commentary on drawing this picture with scans and photos of the inbetween stages.
Genre/Fandom: Temeraire Series
Characters/Pairings: Temeraire
Media: pencil drawing, inked and colored with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: This was done for the Yuletart gift exchange for Tylercat. I’d also like to thank Brown Betty for helping me to come up with a motif, when my initial idea didn’t work out, and for taking a look at the half-finished stages, spotting problems with the rocks and such. Please do not reuse this image as this was gift art for Tylercat.
Temeraire admiring his jewelry — screen resolution (ca. 140k)
detail of the head — high resolution (ca. 180k)
detail of the wing — high resolution (ca. 60k)
Genre/Fandom: DC Comics (Green Arrow)
Characters/Pairings: Connor Hawke (Green Arrow II)
Media: pencil drawing, inked and colored with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: It was kind of hard to decide how to draw him, because there doesn’t seem to be any real consensus on how “non-European” he looks. So let me know whether my version matches your mental image of him.
Connor Hawke, initial pencils — screen resolution (ca. 64k)
Connor Hawke, finished colored version — screen resolution (ca. 44k)
