.art: Uncounted (John/Rodney) PG

[aesc]

Uncounted (John/Rodney) PG

My first submission for paintedspires (there has been a lot of awesome stuff posted already--go and see, if you haven't yet!), answering the prompt "I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away." A small version is under the cut, with a link to the full-res (900.1200) version following.

I also say thank you to beadattitude, dogeared, and sheafrotherdon for encouragement along the way and to summertea and villainny for beta-viewing and providing very useful and much-needed comments. If this isn't as good as it should be, it isn't their fault.

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Comments

Passed the tear test!

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

::choked voice:: I think you hit it, hon. ::lip quivers::

::nods nods::

Re: Passed the tear test!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*snorfles for Beaaaads!!!*

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

Oh this just. Oh. Wow.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*meep* Thank you!!!

And that icon... must... improve... oversharpened!!! *adds to List o' Old Icons What Need Fixing*

[tardis80.livejournal.com]

Oh! This is perfect. The images and the few words you chose fit this so perfectly. And I love the images fade away as through smoke. *huggles the boys*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*hugs you up!* Thank you!! Oh, boys :">

[aurora]

Oh wow!!!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

:"> Thank you!!

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

Oh, just gorgeous. And moving too. I love the texture and blending and all of it really.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! ♥ ♥

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Hello, neurotic, party of one? What do you MEAN, if it's not as good as it should be? You are out of your ever-loving mind, sweets, if you think this is anything but gorgeous, layered, complex and beautiful. You sum up so much, and capture so many complicated feelings in shades of gray which - I may not be an artist, but I know how hard that is to do, to capture nuance and fragility in such a muted palette. It's GORGEOUS.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*snorfles you all up!!* :"> :">

[kimberweeme.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. This is gorgeous. The puzzle pieces in the corner, the soft gray of it all, the numbers veering off into meaningless scribbles... This is cloudy and painful, powerful and stunning.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! I had no idea if anyone would get what was supposed to be happening, so I am so very happy it worked out in the end!

[equusentric.livejournal.com]

Simply, heartachingly beautiful. It says all it needs to. ♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you so much! ♥!!

[neevebrody.livejournal.com]

This is so many kinds of wonderful I don't know where to start. To the eye it's stunning - stark and muted, black, white, gray and all the values in between - which is how I see John/Rodney. To the heart, it is straight forward, gentle yet complicated, but so full of the selfless and of love. I'd say you nailed it. It's beautiful.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Just the thought that Rodney might be willing to do that for John makes my heart all weird :">

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

Oh my, this is lovely. And just...twisty chest in the best way.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yayyyy, twisty chest! Thank you!:) :)

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

OH, it's so saaaaaad!! A;asldfaskdfj, sad and beautiful and intricate, visually and emotionally, and I'm amazed, as always, at the infinite care you take with details and layers, text and subtext, and oh oh, I especially love John's face—achy and just perfect.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*snorfles Jenns so fondly!!!* oh boys :"> :">

[newkidfan.livejournal.com]

Too awesome. Seriously.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*flails!!* Whenever you reply to my stuff, it's like the first time; I am all "omg I can't believe Mel likes it."

[sardonicsmiley.livejournal.com]

Oh. Wow. I'm pretty sure that this couldn't be any more perfect than it is. The puzzle pieces, the muted colors, the circle around Rodney's head and John's expression. It's...wow. Beautiful and full of pain.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you very kindly! I'm happy you liked it! *quivers happily*

[stillane.livejournal.com]

oh.

I wish I had wiser, more important words to tell you how stunning this is, but I can't seem to find them. It makes me think in small, quiet terms, maybe because its own thought is so very big. What I perhaps love most about it, though, is that the greys let little things hide within them, and I get to notice something new every time I look at it again.

So, yeah. Beautiful all around.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It makes me think in small, quiet terms, maybe because its own thought is so very big.

Ohhh, thank you so so much... That means a lot :"> Cate linked me to an article on acalculia in the New Yorker and I kind of went still for a bit, imagining if Rodney suffered from something like that. It's almost too much to think about, really.

[sharky-chan.livejournal.com]

Simply gorgeous. The black and white is so powerful, and the textures are stunning. So simple and understated, it's fantastic *o*.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! :) :)

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

This is as gorgeous as it is heartbreaking.
I love, love, LOVE al your graphics.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you so much!! :"> :">

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Wow. This...I have no words for this. It is just so achingly beautiful. The words, the equations, the puzzle pieces, the pictures...they all just blend together and tell their story so amazingly. Phenomenal.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! I'm very happy you liked it! ♥ ♥

[winkingstar.livejournal.com]

Oh, my heart. *sniffs* This is stunningly gorgeous and heartbreaking and conveys so much with so little (gray colours, not many words). The puzzle pieces and the unraveling equations just zing straight to my heart. The pictures of the boys are perfect. And there's an echo-y feeling about the whole thing that just makes it even more achy. *wibbles*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! I love that shot of Rodney from "Doppelganger," when we're looking down on him in the isolation room and he's all sad and alone *siiigh*

[summertea.livejournal.com]

*BITES LIP* you kill me so often, H. ;~;

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*restores Yin to life!*

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

That's amazingly good.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*meeep* Thank you!!

[highonstargate.livejournal.com]

Wow! that is beautiful!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! :) :)

[steammmpunk.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, this is so beautiful take on the prompt and heart aching in its best. s;lkdjfnlgkj;lkjt. Gorgeous.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Meeeeeep thank you so much!!!! I have to say, staring at your cyberpunk piece cut into my "omgomgmustgetthisfinished!!!!!" time :D Also, it was very inspirational. There are Thoughts because of it.

lovely, heartbreaking, amazing.

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

other words in that vein.

Re: lovely, heartbreaking, amazing.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! And also, I lick your icon's neck.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Oh, Rodney. That's so lovely. It's sparse and complex and just so very Rodney. AMAZING!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yayyyyy Rodney!!! \o/ \o/ Brave, sad toaster that he is.

[propinquitine.livejournal.com]

Oh, gorgeous. There's so much in this image, it's wonderful. The faint flowers in the upper right-hand corner, for instance; I didn't notice them on first view, and then looked again and-- oh. Beautiful.

This has a great sense of flow, too. The puzzle pieces really start the momentum from the skin-texture at the top through the unspooling equations right down to stark black Rodney at the bottom. Or, that's how it hit me, anyway. Short form: I really liked this! Lovely job!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you!! The flowers come from one of my favorite pieces of stock images ever, and I use them constantly. They're such a lovely detail to be able to add, because they're usually not something people notice the first time they look.

Or, that's how it hit me,

Yay, it worked!

Um, yay again! :)