Thorns

So, I've been feeling bad about not doing all the Fanart prompts: not skinny youngish white people but I think at this point it's time to admit defeat. Apologies to those whose prompts were left unfilled.

I have a New prompts post for me to practice interesting poses, if people are interested, and if you're quick and can make your old prompt fit I'm happy to give it a go (one of the issues with many of the ones left was I couldn't find any decent reference images and ran out of inspiration to do the extra work required to work without them)

For anyone not subscribed to alias_sqbr_feed:

House: Young Foreman

SGA: Ronon in a suit

Main updates at my lj, but I'll post the odd roundup here when I've done a bunch.

Final fanart prompt: The time Gregor had the north tower demolished with a gravitic imploder lance for black_samvara

The passage from A Deeper Season (a great Gregor/Miles AU):

"...there's a gravitic imploder lance downstairs in the armory."
"Really?" Ivan said, diverted. "I've never seen it."
"Not the public armory."
"Has it ever been used?"
Gregor coughed. "Not for, uh, traditional combat." Ivan waited.
"I, uh, had them use it to demolish the old clock tower," Gregor admitted finally.
"Really? And you didn't let me come watch? How was it?"
"Most satisfying," Gregor said reminiscently.

And yes, I based the tower on the UWA clock tower, because why not :D I spent ages trying to get it to work as a more complete picture (with backgrounds, other figures etc) but it refused to come out, so I decided to stick with something simple.

The lance is a combination of things (including some very helpful suggestions from the fine folk at lmbujold), but mostly ended up being based on vehicle mounted lasers from this page.
The uniform is based on various historical and modern russian uniforms, especially http://community.livejournal.com/vintagephoto/3448919.html and http://www.daylife.com/photo/07Brg7uezX1Fs
And finally I took the Vorbarra crest from this page (the fanfic explicitly says the colours are silver and black)

My next Prompt: "the characters from a fandom, in steampunk gear..Pride and Prejudice! Or Temeraire".

Unfortunately, the only characters I can think of good in-character steampunky ideas for are minor ones like Wickham or Mr Bennet, though the idea of regency steampunk is really interesting in general. But I was inspired to make a picture of Lady Catherine and Miss Anne De Bourgh which I think came out quite well. Now that that's out of my system I might be able to draw someone else. Maybe I'll give Temeraire a go instead. And of course there's black_samvara's prompt, which I *am* inspired by, I just have some details I'm nutting out.

EDIT: Wait, I just noticed the sentence "Or as cats". HMMM.

Looking at 18th century vs 19th century technology (P&P was written around the turn of those centuries), I decided the main difference was how unfinished everything looks, since they're just figuring things out as they go along. So I decided to try to get that across. Also it was fun mimicking the art style of the time. I accidentally scanned the image in at a really low resolution :(

Main reference pictures:
http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/dress/morn.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/10/13/us/20081013ECO_9.html
http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/5/7/M/cugnot.jpg

I recommend not looking too closely sat the workings of the carriage :)

cupidsbow's prompt.

I realised early on this would take me FOREVER if I was all finicky, so I was rather slapdash. I think it came out ok overall though some bits are completely wrong (the perspective on the balcony for example)
( Stargate Atlantis:the team explore the city -- somewhere high )

First of my fanfic prompts, for ilumiari.

Kaylee goes dress shopping

Doesn't really capture the image in my head, and made all mucky by my scanner (which has been acting up recently) but you have to let go with these things.

I had lots of time to draw this, what with having to leave work early with horrible stomach badness and all :/ (it calmed down after a few hours, thus giving me a chance to do something other than lie on the couch feeling grumpy sore and bored) I based the dress off this picture I found via google.

I give you my final prompt: a ninja tupperware party



I liked the idea of using the way ninjas made themselves invisible (good disguises) rather than the "traditional" black outfits while still mainly using the western silly ninja stereotype (the idea of combining actual ninjas with tupperware has it's own appeal, but would have required more research :)) Sorry it's a bit scruffy, I drew it on the train in a tiny notebook.

Had a VERY annoying day today: my left foot is giving me sharp pains every time I take a step wearing shoes, which (apart from being unpleasant) meant I had to make do with what Sophie-friendly food I could get in the work canteen/had frozen, and didn't do my walk after work, and both of these have made me cranky.

But! I have drawn the next prompt. No points for guessing who suggested "A horse pretending to be a hippogryph in order not to be eaten by gryphons" :)



The griffin is wearing Kira's "You just woke me up, prepare to die" expression :) I realise it's not griffins, but this is the mental image the prompt gave me (inspired very much by the one from Alice in Wonderland, I discovered after looking for reference pics)

The results of this post. I may draw more later when I next feel drawingy.

( Tommo, and a tap-dancing cassowary )

Had a fantastic time at tommmo's birthday last night. It was really nice talking to you all! Unfortunately I missed anyone who spent a lot of time in the room with the loud music (my throat was going funny and I didn't feel like yelling)