Trek Exchange Art

[tripperfunster]

This was drawn for hopesopalshard for the comm trek_exchange

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!

Comments

[hopesopalshard.livejournal.com]

Awesome picture!! I love it ^.^

Gah, sorry it took me so long to leave a reply; been in and out of computer access, and I wanted to wait 'till I had a stretch to really sit and give a proper reply.

Heheh, I think your casting is great. I also pegged Kirk as being rather feline.. and definitely that grin of his makes him top Cheshire material.
I agree that Chekov, especially Chekov from the new movie, seems like the best innocent 'Alice' type. Poor thing. He looks just so lost and confused by all the madness around him.
The Spock rabbit made me laugh out loud. OOooh boy. Wonder what our half-Vulcan would say to being bunnified. :p I can see this version, rather than the usual "I'm late I'm late!" cry, saying something more also the lines of "Now if you'll pardon me, but time is growing short before I must make a rather important meeting." (Arches one bunny-eyebrow, and tries to slip past in a dignified manner).

And, oh, McCoy. I love the doctor symbol on his hat too! Before I read you comments I was looking at his hand saying, 'Is that a _hypospray_ he's balancing?!'. Great placement! Same for the Enterprise floating through the background.

Honestly, I think the artristy of it is great. The color choices and the characters' style combines to give it this nice, eerie, slightly unsettling feeling. Which is just perfect for wonderland. That's some very nice shading on the characters themselves, and I love how the background color is swirled through with black. Very nice effects.

So, good luck to Alice Chekov getting out of there without too much scarring (mental or otherwise), and thanks so much for the fantastic pic!

~Sky

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like it! It was actually quite a bit of fun to do. i didn't have much more than a passing knowledge of Alice in Wonderland, so I had to do quite a bit of research, which I really enjoyed.

Thanks so much for such a neat and unique prompt!