art: "Banner of the Crossed Staves" [Teyla, John, team]

[tielan]

TITLE: Banner of the Crossed Staves
MEDIUM: drawing/digital colouring/manip
RATING: PG-13
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Teyla, John, Ronon, Rodney, implied John/Teyla
NOTES: For the paintedspires art challenge to the prompt "Teyla is a warlord and John is her assassin/lover/confidant." This started off with just Teyla and John in the drawing as per the prompt, and then,

Comments

[allisnow]

Very cool :)

[tielan]

Heh. Thanks. :)

[calcitrix]

I love Rodney as the standard bearer and the armor is great. Well done!

[tielan]

I was originally going to put him in armour, and then the idea of him as a standard bearer just kinda popped up.

Thank you!

[leyna55]

Well done! I like Teyla's pose, their armour is great (excellent chainmail!), and so are the banners. I'm glad you added Ronon, Rodney and the army. It gives an epic (movie poster-ish) feel to the picture.

[tielan]

It was touch-and-go with Ronon, Rodney, and the army for a while - I just didn't think I could draw them all. Thankfully, in the end, I didn't have to.

Thank you! I love your work, so it's lovely to get this comment.

[rokeon]

The armor designs are great, and I love that you gave Teyla something actually protective rather than a chainmail bikini or Xena knockoff. Very cool.

*intrigued by suggested possibility of future ponies*

[tielan]

ileliberte and I had a good bitch about 'unequal dressing' when it came to male and female clothing/armour - namely that the guys get all the protective gear, and the women end up in the scanty little bits and pieces.

I can't imagine Teyla standing for a chainmail bikini...and she needs a bit more support than Keira or Miranda Otto/Eowyn since RL's a bit more curvy.

*is having trouble with Shep-hair on a pony*

[gryphonrhi]

Oh, man, I love the swords, the crossed bantos on the banner, and the army behind them. All that said, I squeed over the mile marker. Sorry, it's the history background. Thank you, this is great!

[tielan]

The mile marker was a last-minute addition. :)

Thank you!