There's a Mirror On the Wall

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So I spent yesterday and this morning working on this piece of art, which is Master Alliard, mentioned in Creche Meetings. She’s a character who never actually shows up in the text, but she’s also the one I had the best base image to play with for this kind of art.

This is the first time I’ve done this in well over a decade, so I was relearning some of my tools in the process. I think she came out pretty well.

Base image is one of Ian McKellen holding a walking stick. Scutes are done based on a small tortoise with bright scutes over darker skin, and the eye coloration is from the same tortoise. The base skin tone comes from a giant tortoise.

I watched all the episodes with Tesla from Sleepers through Normandy this weekend. And now the Nikola Tesla muse that flitted through my head so often has settled down a bit. He's drinking the lounge bar dry of wine (or would, if it were possible... oh, the wonders of a never-empty virtual bar), he's criticizing my taste in music, he's telling a story (and sulking about the state he's in at the moment in it, despite the whole thing being his idea), and he's demanded a wallpaper.

Said wallpaper is below the cut. The story... well, it's at least proto-story, and the plot bunny has larger fangs than Tesla, and a fondness for donuts (and wine. It's Tesla's plot-bunny, of course the thing drinks wine to wash down the donuts).

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Text icons.
All text from buttons I've gotten from Nancy.
All backgrounds me playing around with gradients and other nifty effects.

If you're taking, comment please. Credit goes to morgynleri_fic

Teasers:


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Text icons.
All text from buttons I've gotten from Nancy.
All backgrounds me playing around with gradients and other nifty effects.

If you're taking, comment please. Credit goes to morgynleri_fic.

Teasers:


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So, I haven't gotten the PWP with the three finished, even, or anything else beyond it, but the muses were far more cooperative on a banner for the story than the story itself.

I, though, can't make up my mind between two different versions of the banner (only real difference is the font), and so I ask... which do you all like better?

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Ok, am talking to twistdfateangel on AIM, and she tells me of wank I apparently missed - and am sorta wishing I still had, and anyway...

So back-and-forth is happening, and she says:

Though I'd like to see this as an icon, with perfectly innocent pairing shots.
"I've seen more tawdry sex scenes on JELLY JAR GLASSES!"

I respond:
*tilts head* How about a pairing shot that can be innocent or not, depending on how you take it?

Which would contain spoilers for TW 2.01, but....

would be amusing

Dangerously replied to as:

That works!

*pauses* Five minutes later, and I have this saved to my harddrive when I should be finishing getting dressed and heading out the door, 'cause I'm going to the 'rents this evening:

Icons below the cut, spoilers for TW 2.01 - "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang". More will be posted later, I need to go get dinner now.

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