Paint a Pretty Picture

[lazaria91]

So a month ago pprfaith wrote Pockets Full of Stones, which is a fabulous White Collar/Thor crossover that I adore to death. But that's not the point. The point is that about halfway through, she describes a series of paintings that Neal did, one of which hit me like a ton of bricks. The description is as follows:

The one that Peter can’t stop staring at is

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[pprfaith]

Baby, that is... I don't even. How can you, what are.... this isn't....OMGOMGOMG

[lazaria91]

XD XD XD Well this just made my day. I'm so happy you like them!

I like the second posture too. I'm considering using it no matter which final background I pick. In true, the coloring is just a few watercolor pencils washed it, so it's rouch, but I'm glad the effect works for you. And I'm thrilled you like the tree. Friggin branches, man. I was trying to avoid having any of the lines cross over, which it the exact opposite of what they actually do, but they worked out rather nicely. The last pic is a floorplan: I'm debating drawing some of the others over to reflect the better thought out architecture. Whatcha think

[pprfaith]

The sewing thing was what I had in mind, but really, it could be anything. There's more than enough punishments Loki gets to choose from.

As for what I had in mind... sort of, but not exactly, which is a good thing because my imagination is mine and yours is yours, if that makes sense. Same would be boring.

Doesn't mean I don't love them. All of them. The only thing I'm not completely in love with is the way the blood catches in the tree inlay, because it's so symmetrical. I imagined the blood either small scale or in the roots or branches, for better effect.

As for the one I like best... the first for the posture, and for the background...the second is most like what I imagined, but it seems a bit boring now, so I'd prolly go for the second sketch on the first sheet, too, because I get the impression of baby Nari peeking out from behind a pillar, close to the door, far from the throne. He probably snuck in.

Basically the amounts of love I have for all of this are crazy.

[lazaria91]

Truth.

Also true. We had an assignment once where we were given a scene description and we all had to draw what we thought it looked like. All 20 of us had something different and they were all cool.

Yeah? Huh. Blood in the spread would be more dynamic, like spiderwebs.

When you say first, so you mean first sheet or first sketch?