.artfic: Crash - John/Rodney (PG)

[aesc]

I wasn't going to post this until next week, but asdlkjf I really needed to get something out of today, you know?

.Crash
comic-sort of art by aesc (John/Rodney, Nantucket AU [index])

.notes: graphic novelesque story, a very short sequel to Contour, to wrap up the angstiness dogeared got started with "Fall."







CRASH

I crashed.

Imagine losing your genius, waking up and not knowing how stars work, why time is, or whatever.

Anyway, so I was on a mission and BANG, I got hit.

And i fell.

When I woke up I couldn't fly.

(I was sca--pissed.)

After, I used to wake up sometimes and think I can't fly anymore.

(and that... still pisses me off.)

But now I wake up and you're here.

-end-


And then, some art I did for the cover to cybel's podbook of astolat's "Tango", which you can find here.

Comments

[psyko-kittie.livejournal.com]

Powerful words. Beautiful artwork!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly!

[tharaist.livejournal.com]

Oh, beautiful!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[raiining.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beautiful - really well worked with only a few lines, and beautiful *stunning* artwork.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I don't think John would wax eloquent on this at all, though my personal approach would be to ramble on awkwardly :D

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

I'm desperately trying to come up with something that's not, "Pretty! On every level!"

Alas, I fail.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*snuffles you!*

[kimberweeme.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how you create the artwork you do, but it is stunning and beautiful and gorgeous and all sorts of equivalent words. What an amazing talent.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

how you create the artwork you do

It is called "procrastination" and "avoidance" mostly :D

[anyanka-eg.livejournal.com]

This is totally beautiful.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly!

[summertea.livejournal.com]

ghg;ajasf oh john. *clutches heart* agh;glkasjdf this is so short but beautiful and to the point and!

!!!

!!!!!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*smoooooches for Yins!*

lovely

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

you really make such amazing things.

Re: lovely

[aesc.livejournal.com]

:"> Thank you so much!!

[the-reverand.livejournal.com]

THese are gorgeous, but the first is really especially lovely. I wish the show was half as good as your fannish endeavors in its honor. I might actually watch it!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

I freely admit SGA isn't terribly good--yet it exerts a bizarre hold on me :D I think maybe it's that the less there is to work with, the more there is to do, which I find very fun. Also, David Hewlett/Rodney McKay is all kinds of adorable :D

[steammmpunk.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is simply amazing. Short, yet packed with so much - oh, John. Beautiful. ♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you thank you! *hearts*

Oh, John indeed :)

[mcalex22.livejournal.com]

I know I've already complimented you on your graphics but it doesn't hurt to say it again! :D

I love your use of textures, the selction of caps and the fact that you have different fonts in the art. Blue is my favourite colour and I like that small patch of blue sky. I also admire and love the way you've made a cut out of the boys. Flanigan's hair is not very cut-out friendly (I've tried changing backgrounds and given up in frustration!).

Thanks for sharing :D

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D

As for the Flan!hair, after eons of struggling with cropping it, I finally realized maybe the completely obvious thing... and that is the smudge tool. What you do is crop out the background stuff, following all the spikes and cowlicks as best you can, and then going back in with the smudge tool and smoothing out the sharp angles from the crop tool. It also helps if the top of his hair's been cut off :D

(The big black and white one is cropped from this (http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/aesc36/picspam/DSC_1543.jpg), and all I needed to do was go in with the smudge tool and give him his spikes back *g*)

[elli.livejournal.com]

Very awesome typography work :)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much! This is the first time I've ever tried something like this, with different type and such :) It also made me realize how woefully thin my font collection is :D

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

*is awed*

seriously.

you packed so much in to so few words. - which obviously i'm going to fixate on.

(your art blows me away every. single. time. but here, especially - i'm pretty sure i'm going to swap out my desktop for a bit, just so i can stare at it for a while in it's entirety, to catch even a fraction of the depth i know is in there.)

*bows down*

seriously.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*hugs hugs hugs* Thank you so much! I didn't hide as much in there as there is in the Nantucket CD cover, but I can tell you where the sekrit things are, if you want :D

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Oh, John . . . oh, John. The poor, dear, sweet love, and just - this is gorgeous. The color, the movement, the way the thoughts are expressed as half thoughts or asides in font and layers. SO BEAUTIFUL.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Eeee, thank you so much! "Postcard" kind of got me wondering about what it would be like to do something a bit more complicated, with the text and art more dependent on each other, and yay! I'm so happy it worked :)

*snorfles youuuu*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh.

*flails*

That's so lovely. And so John.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you soooo much! Boys! *sigh*

[raiseyoureyes.livejournal.com]

soo gorgeous. i'm not a fan of either... eh, fandoms, but they're still amazing!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! :)