Comments | astridv: fanart [SGA]: illustration for The Black Lake by Tipper

astridv

fanart [SGA]: illustration for The Black Lake by Tipper

Sep 07, 2009 01:12

I made a story illustration for tipper_green's The Black Lake:

( pic behind the cut... bit spoilerish, but more of a teaser than a story spoiler )

fanart, sga, fic_recs:teyla_emmagan, fic_recs:jennifer_keller, fic_recs:sga

Comments 26

wraithfodder September 7 2009, 00:11:21 UTC

I loved the story and your artwork for it is great!

astridv September 7 2009, 23:38:39 UTC

Thanks! :)

tipper_green September 7 2009, 00:57:20 UTC

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Yup, pretty much speechless with joy! No words, man! Just screaming with sheer squealing joy!

Oh, oh, oh, did I mention how much I love the scorpions! I love the scorpions so, so much!

astridv September 7 2009, 11:24:30 UTC

*beams like a cheshire cat*

I fixed the image a little, btw... heightened a few more contrasts that my scanner ate when scanning. Just edited the new version into this entry here. (It's a little larger, too... a new version in the previous size is here: http://pics.livejournal.com/astridv/pic/000w8esq)

Oh, oh, oh, did I mention how much I love the scorpions! I love the scorpions so, so much!

The scorpions... I was literally cringing while drawing some of them. lol

aurora_84 September 7 2009, 01:07:06 UTC

Whoa! This is beyond cool.

astridv September 7 2009, 23:40:19 UTC

Thank you. :)

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astridv September 7 2009, 23:40:43 UTC

Heh. Good timing!

sholio September 7 2009, 02:43:41 UTC

Ooh, that's just gorgeous! What a lovely job of capturing the creepy, "alone in the dark" feeling of the story. And I love how you've broken up the edges of the art in some places to let the paper bleed into the curves of the cavern backdrop.

astridv September 8 2009, 15:51:24 UTC

I'm pleased you like it. I had a very vivid image in my head when I read it, and it pretty much drew itself.

And I love how you've broken up the edges of the art in some places to let the paper bleed into the curves of the cavern backdrop.

It's really fun to play around with edges and borders. It can get gimmicky at times so I don't use it in book illustration as much as I'd like but I really like it here, myself. And the cool thing about fanart, I can go wild with this kind of stuff.