fan art - SGA

[astridv]

I checked out a few eps of SGA, and now it is eating my brain just a little. Spent some time digging through heaps of fic. There's a wealth of stories out there, one doesn't even know where to start. I think I might, possibly, get into this show. I ordered the Season One DVDs... what the hell, Amazon offers them at a price that is hard to resist.

I'm itching to do some fan art, but the current book is still not quite done and I have to get it out of the way before I can concentrate on anything else. But I couldn't resist entirely... here, a few sketches of John Sheppard.




(Thanks to stargatecaps.com)


There, got that out of my system, now I can get back to work with new motivation. Drawing fan art clears my brain somehow.

I'm thinking, four more days, then I should be done with this book. Maybe by then the infernal rain will have stopped. (Seriously, all these posts about heat waves and temperatures of 100F and higher are making me insanely jealous... I love hot weather.)

Um, Bones fic recs coming soon, just need some spare time to write that post...

Comments

part 1

[tinny]

That's so funny, I had no idea you were a fellow German until I checked our your journal.

Hee. :) *waves* Where exactly are you? I'm in Munich (but I'd never put that in my user info either ;)).

You draw? You paint? *curious*

The only non-digital drawing that I scanned in is here:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/5432/manips/divers.html

It's the third from the top - and already a few years old. As usual with b/w pencil scans it doesn't come out all that impressive. ;/

I am embarrassed about most of the stuff that's on that web page - amazing how bad I was a few years ago. Still not all that good, mind, but there's a difference. :D

I haven't made any non-digital stuff in the last year - and what I did is only some silk painting I made as presents for friends. Mostly, these days I make fannish backgrounds and icons.

It has often tickled me to draw my son over the last year, but I never actually did it. :( It's almost impossible to draw him while he's moving, and when he's finally asleep, I have my hands full of sleeping baby or I need to sleep, too. The tiny, tiny rest of the time I am glad I have some time to watch TV. A dilemma. ;)

I don't know if that's because procedurals are harder to write for, or because the pool of writers is just so small. Probably a bit of both.

I haven't thought about the 'procedurals' problem much yet, but I tend to agree. The only procedural fandom I know with a lot of fic is House. It seems to be the exception. CSI, on the other hand, with interesting characters and a huge viewer base: hardly anything good.

That fic, in the later chapters, is so intense that I had to draw that fan art to clear my head. I love it when that kind of inspiration happens.

Yeah, that's exactly what got me to draw Snape and Harry. I still love that fic to pieces.

I'm having a bit of trouble with Servare Vitas so far - I'm about one third in. I have a huge aversion to weapons. I like the introspective style a lot, though, so I'm trying to ignore the weapons.

I even like the canon so far. I mean, it doesn't have the brilliance of 'Angel' but then what does.

:D Let me think. That's a tough one. Battlestar Galactica. Firefly (ok, Whedon, so it probably doesn't count ;) ). Hmm.... Farscape. I think that's about it. :D

I thought, 'damn, you're making it way too easy for them,' and hoped there'd be a catch.

Yes, me too. When I read the show description I imagined them trekking from planet to planet, always trying to evade the Wraith. No supplies, no gadgets. That would have been my kind of show. Oh, right, that was Firefly. Minus the horses. ;)

I still like the first season a lot, though, and I am still watching SGA. I will very probably continue watching till the end. I'm not even a slasher, but John and Rodney hold a place in my heart now. It's weird. :) But I've seen people radically averse to slash start to succumb to John and Rodney, so... maybe it's inevitable.

Season four of Angel and season six of Buffy are my favorites... and even a lot of the fans dislike those for being too dark.

I know! I started on Buffy with the Musical in season six, and saw all the worst turf wars over B/A or B/S. I watched the earlier seasons later on, but they were too fluffy for me, basically. I had watched Angel - on German TV even - before Buffy. I liked it because it was darker. I think I liked the second half of the third season best. That was before Connor got to be a teenager. Actually, parts of Angel season four and five were also good. Oh, the good old times. *G*

Who was your favorite character or pairing on Buffy and Angel?