fanart [SGA]: Clear Blue Skies

[astridv]

Still haven't started on my taxes. But, I'm feeling accomplished because instead I colored my livelongnmarry pic for greyias, who gave me an open prompt for a friendshippy John/Rodney scene.





[eta: telesilla wrote comment fic, and it's perfect. Squee.]

Taxes next, for real. That elves plan isn't working out.

[eta: the images look slightly blurry in Firefox, particularly the smaller one. In IE they look okay. In fact ever since I upgraded FF, my LJ pages are distorted, a bit wider than my screen. Anyone else notice that or is it just me? Just in case, here's a direct link to the image.]

[son of eta: found the problem... had to switch to 'zoom text only'.]

Comments

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

Oh, John looks so young and full of happy for flying things! I love it!!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

full of happy for flying things!

Yay, that's what I was going for. :) Glad you like it!

[dovil.livejournal.com]

That I adore the boys goes without questions, but I absolutely love the world you've set out in the background. It's sparse but busy and interesting all at the same time.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Thanks, really glad you like. For ages I've been having this idea for a tiny comic thing that's set in a similar setting, and so far I haven't got around to that. This was really fun to design. (Turned out a bit more Arizona-like than I planned, for some reason - but if every other planet looks like Vancouver, surely some will look like the South-West.)

[calcitrix.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! I love John's expression especially. And the background is lovely! Do you work on bristol?

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Do you work on bristol?

Fabriano hot pressed. Actually I ink on drawing board (I'm using the house brand at Boesner, which is inexpensive and really great for both pencil and ink), then I scan the artwork and print it onto the watercolor paper.

[jennytork.livejournal.com]

I love this! I really, really love this!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :o)

[creidh.livejournal.com]

I love it! You are awesome!

"and sail along the silver sky"

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

"Balloons?" Rodney stared up at the balloons and then at John's happy expression. "But...but...you like things that go 200mph!"

"It's still flying," John said, looking up into the clear blue sky. "You ever been up in a balloon, Rodney?"

"Me? Trust myself to a bag of nylon and hot air? Do I look crazy?"

"It's quiet, or mostly so." John's face relaxed a little and suddenly, he looked young and maybe even a little wistful. "You just...drift along, nothing but sky all around you."

"Oh." Rodney paused for a long moment. "Okay."

"Okay what?"

"I'll build you one. One that you can trust not to tear or fail and dump you into the ocean."

"You...." John smiled, a broad real smile. "Yeah?"

"I said so didn't I?" Rodney felt his mouth twitch, just a little at the corners. "But you need to know one thing."

"What's that?"

"I draw the line at hang gliders." He raised his chin. "I'm not going to build a deathtrap for a friend...um...for you."

"Thanks," John said. "Thanks, Rodney. Once you build it, I'll take you up in it."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. It'll be cool, you'll see."

Re: "and sail along the silver sky"

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Oh, squee, comment fic! Thank you, this makes me happy. Yes, I imagine something just like this.

(I got a little comic all scribbled and everything, which takes place in this setting and is kind of in that vein, except it does involve a hang glider. :) It was for the 'fight of flight' challenge last year, I got the idea a day before the deadline so it never went anywhere. Now I'm really in the mood to ink that in time for amnesty this year.

[ratcreature]

This looks great. It makes me wonder whether John and Rodney have brought some flying contraption to this meeting too.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Oh, how gorgeous! I love the beautiful, interesting world you've created and the look of wonder on John's face. (I think he found where he wants to retire. *g*) The boardwalk makes me think a little bit of the cliff village in Riven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riven).

[toysdream.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's so amazingly cute! It almost seems weird to see Sheppard so relaxed and happy. Let's put it down to the romance of unpowered flight. :-)

I love how you've worked in a little bit of the gate, too, just to flesh out the story.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

It almost seems weird to see Sheppard so relaxed and happy.

Dude, I found *no* screen cap for relaxed and happy Sheppard, will you believe that? I had to improvise.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

That's just delightful. I can't stop grinning!

[aurora]

Awww, I love how you draw them. Also: flying machines omg!!

[naye]

Eeee~! So gorgeous! So sweet! The quiet wistfulness in John's face, and Rodney intent on John, and... oh. Extremely lovely. ♥

And I love the idea of a world where people have to find a way to cross a chasm to get anywhere from the gate.

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Oh god! I love it. That is so adorable, Sheppard's longing look at the zeppelins and McKay's look of indulgence at Sheppard. (I'm a bit worried about the constructional soundness of that wooden platform. I hope Rodney checked it out before they sat down. *g*)

[semielliptical]

Beautiful! What a fabulous setting.

[xenachan.livejournal.com]

BEAUTIFUL!

[trobadora]

This is absolutely gorgeous! *loves*

[pegasus-01.livejournal.com]

OMG I wish I had your M4D drawing skillz! It's GORGEOUS! The boys looks so very much like themselves and John! John just look so content!! It makes me want to HUG THEM!! Amazing job!

[shadowserenity.livejournal.com]

Aw, lovely! I love the inclusion of the balloons.

While I am an Opera browser LJer, I have heard on my flist that there's been problems with FireFox 3. Mostly to do with tabs, but your problem could be linked.

[cat-latin.livejournal.com]

You do this so well. I love this.

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

That's a great pic!! Wonderful body language and expressions! Happy John!

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful!

[rachbigbro.livejournal.com]

This is really quite fantastic. Shepperd looks so relaxed and happy, love it.

[theantipam.livejournal.com]

Great facial expressions on both of the boys! I love the detail on the boots - makes me glad I don't have to lace them up every day!

Nice touch to have the contrast of the high tech gate right along with the low tech flying machines!

[accidentalfan.livejournal.com]

This was a lovely picture (and thanking you for lacing John's boots, since he never seems to get around to it himself).

I can just hear Rodney saying "You know we can't stay here, right?" And then John will pout.

[sonadorita.livejournal.com]

Eeeeek! This is breathtaking. I love John's expression, he looks like he'll never want to leave this place.