Trek Exchange Art

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.
( Chekov in Wondertrek )

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!