Trek Exchange Art
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They asked for AU, where some of the characters were melded with Alice in Wonderland.
There is a lot that I like about this pic. Chekov in a dress!! He seemed like the most innocent character, so he got to be Alice. Spock's ears made him a shoe-in for the Rabbit, Kirk's cheezoid smile gave him first dibs on the Cheshire(sp?) cat, and Bones picked the short straw to be the Mad Hatter. Oh, and a Klingon-ish queen of hearts type character.
If you look closely, there's a teeny Enterprise sillouetted in the moon, and a Damnit Jim! tucked into McCoy's hat. (along with a mini hypo-spray in his hand.)
What I DON'T like about this pic could fill an entire post. :( My utter fail at watercolours, for one. grrr I don't, for the life of me, know why I would pick a medium that I KNOW I fail at, for an exchange piece. I guess I just keep hoping that I will magically improve. And I HAVE improved, really, but not ... um ... magically. How can some things (pencil, pastel, crayon) come so easily, and some others (WATERCOLOURS) not?
Other things to not like: The fact that not one character is interacting with another. They're all kind of stuck together in a creepy cut and paste way. There was the potential for some really cool character reactions and I didn't get there. There also isn't enough contrast between the characters and the background/foreground. Probably because i just didn't plan this out very well. The Klingon/Queen was an afterthought, and I had already drawn the tree, so I sort of just bullied her in there.
sorry to go on, I really don't mean to belly ache, I guess I'm just trying to sort it all out in my head, so I can continue to improve. I tried to make the characters as CS Lewis as I could, and i think they really do have that flavour. Which, frankly, is just plain creepy. This entire book/movie really creeped me out as a kid.
bla bla bla tl;dr: I hope you like it, hopesopalshard!
hopesopalshard for the comm trek_exchangeThey asked for AU, where some of the characters were melded with Alice in Wonderland.
There is a lot that I like about this pic. Chekov in a dress!! He seemed like the most innocent character, so he got to be Alice. Spock's ears made him a shoe-in for the Rabbit, Kirk's cheezoid smile gave him first dibs on the Cheshire(sp?) cat, and Bones picked the short straw to be the Mad Hatter. Oh, and a Klingon-ish queen of hearts type character.
If you look closely, there's a teeny Enterprise sillouetted in the moon, and a Damnit Jim! tucked into McCoy's hat. (along with a mini hypo-spray in his hand.)
What I DON'T like about this pic could fill an entire post. :( My utter fail at watercolours, for one. grrr I don't, for the life of me, know why I would pick a medium that I KNOW I fail at, for an exchange piece. I guess I just keep hoping that I will magically improve. And I HAVE improved, really, but not ... um ... magically. How can some things (pencil, pastel, crayon) come so easily, and some others (WATERCOLOURS) not?
Other things to not like: The fact that not one character is interacting with another. They're all kind of stuck together in a creepy cut and paste way. There was the potential for some really cool character reactions and I didn't get there. There also isn't enough contrast between the characters and the background/foreground. Probably because i just didn't plan this out very well. The Klingon/Queen was an afterthought, and I had already drawn the tree, so I sort of just bullied her in there.
sorry to go on, I really don't mean to belly ache, I guess I'm just trying to sort it all out in my head, so I can continue to improve. I tried to make the characters as CS Lewis as I could, and i think they really do have that flavour. Which, frankly, is just plain creepy. This entire book/movie really creeped me out as a kid.
bla bla bla tl;dr: I hope you like it, hopesopalshard!
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Date: 2009-08-05 11:46 am (UTC)watercolour is the devilI love all things Alice and this is made from win!I love all the detail you put in and Kirk as Cheshire cat is genius!
Go girl!
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Date: 2009-08-06 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-06 04:08 am (UTC)As I was saying: I think he would also make an awesome Mad Hatter.