Art: By the Sounding Sea [illustration for vwl's Nothing Gold]

[bob_fish]

Title: By the Sounding Sea
Characters: Ling/Ed
Rating: G for really quite worksafe
Medium: Drawing tablet and Photoshop. Experimenting with some new (to me) digital painting techniques.
Notes: Illustration/cover image for vwl's Nothing Gold. It's one of my favourite fics of all time: a long story with a long reach about Ling and Ed and their lives

Comments

[vwl]

Oh, Bob. That. That turned out simply amazing. I love that you managed to keep them both sort of ageless in this particular pose. (And I also love that Ed is wearing purple. ♥) It's so soft and pretty and and and ;_; thank you sooooooo much! I don't even know how to tell you how much I love this! I am going to print it up super big at work and hang it on my wall. ;____;

I apologize for the incoherentness of this. I tried to actually write the specifics of what I like, but I love it too much to do that. :| I don't get it either.

[bob_fish]

Really? Yay! Originally they were going to both have their backs to the viewer, but Ling sort of snuck into the spotlight as he does. And it seemed kind of appropriate that we can see Ling looks young but we can't really see Ed's age, given Ling's perspective in the fic. I thought Ed might like purple. I don't know if it would have imperial connotations to a westerner in FMA (did the king of Xerxes get to wear it? IDK) but it seemed very appropriate.

Well, your fic made me very incoherent, in a good way. I just tried about twice to finally write you a proper review and failed!

Would it be okay for me to pimp to the comms with that summary. I'd snip out the really fulsome praise from the summary to spare your blushes because I'm British like that, and say "check out the fic". I laid off the spoilers/warnings because your summary seemed pretty comprehensive that way.

Seriously, I'm so so glad you liked this. Thank you for writing that fic! It's stayed with me.

[vwl]

You can pimp it however you want! :D

For the record, I showed off this picture at work, and everyone who saw it liked it. :B I couldn't print it because the printer was down today, but next time! ::shakes fist::

[bob_fish]

Yay pimping! *scrurries off to do it*

Yay colleagues liking the pic. :3

[celestialphoenx]

This is seriously gorgeous T_T

[bob_fish]

Thanks! Digital painting iz hard.

[sky_dark]

You were right, sap it is, but such pretty sap *sighs* It's gorgeous!

[bob_fish]

SAP SAP SAP

Thanks! This scene was not at all cheesy in the fic, but it's really difficult to do sunsets without them coming out as cheese on a stick! It's especially difficult with Ling trying his best to pose and look dashing. He's difficult like that. XD

Typos XD

[enemytosleep]

The effects are decent.

Re: Typos XD

[bob_fish]

Oh great, another fan with ideas.

[evil_little_dog]

That's really lovely.

[bob_fish]

Thanks so much! It was nice to have time to pick away at it, and I learnt some new techniques!

BTW, is the timeframe on the userinfo for fireandice2011 correct for this year? I'm a bit confused because it mentions August, and I thought you mentioned something about the timeframe not being fixed yet in your LJ? Or I could just be confused, that happens.

[evil_little_dog]

At this point, nothing is set in stone. I'd LIKE to start handing out prompts in August, and start posting everything in September. That's MY plan. We'll see how life takes me along that path, though.

[bob_fish]

I'm pretty tempted to enter for art, but it depends on how crazy things get with new job! I've joined the comm so I can keep up with updates, and will see if I can think of some prompts.