art for da_reversebang: Max Coulson, Agent of SHIELD
Hello! Recently I participated in the Dark Angel reversebang (yeah, talk about old fandoms! Not to mention, one so old that a lot of the fan material was lost when geocities went under, because by that time most of the people participating had moved on.)
Anyway, I wound up submitting two pieces of art; the fanmix person dropped out, I think, but I'll get around to putting up it up at some point. My other piece was taken up - a banner. I hadn't tried any straight artwork before, and I was surprised at how hard and how easy it was, simultaneously.
The concept was that on the night Max and her Unit broke out in 2009, instead of Max being picked up by Hannah the nurse (from the episode 'Heat') she was instead found by Agent Phil Coulson of SHIELD, and adopted as his daughter. Subsequently Coulson and Nick Fury found out about Manticore, and Took Steps.
The resulting story by peaceful_sands can be found here: Max Coulson, Agent of SHIELD, by peaceful_sands
I'd had a semi-formed idea for a resulting story (which I'm sure I'll never actually write, to be honest) of my own for the concept. But the author took the idea and ran with it, in ways I'd never really thought of (ie Clint being with Coulson, and him being the one to spot Max as she ran from the Manticore guards - my first reaction being 'that's brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?', not to mention how she worked in the events of a certain S2 ep to provide the climax of the plot) It really was an interesting experience, and all praise to peaceful_sands for taking my fuzzy concept and turning out a well-written story from it.
The hardest parts of making the banner were a) finding a screenshot of young Max (I spent about two hours scouring the internet for a really good pic; still didn't find the one I really wanted, of young Max framed in a part-open car door - as I said above, a lot of the Dark Angel fandom was wiped out with geocities) and in getting the SHIELD logo onto Max's jacket. I took a shot of Natasha from Avengers, when she was standing at a similar angle to the shot I'd selected of Max, then cropped the pic to just the SHIELD logo. I used paintbox to scribble some black around the edges, so it was (mostly) even, then pasted it onto the sleeve of pic-Max and saved it as a new file. I'm sure there are any amount of artists out there who could have done something much better, but this is probably the most complicated thing I've tried yet, and I'm quite proud of myself, and how well the finished banner turned out.
Anyway, I wound up submitting two pieces of art; the fanmix person dropped out, I think, but I'll get around to putting up it up at some point. My other piece was taken up - a banner. I hadn't tried any straight artwork before, and I was surprised at how hard and how easy it was, simultaneously.
The concept was that on the night Max and her Unit broke out in 2009, instead of Max being picked up by Hannah the nurse (from the episode 'Heat') she was instead found by Agent Phil Coulson of SHIELD, and adopted as his daughter. Subsequently Coulson and Nick Fury found out about Manticore, and Took Steps.
The resulting story by peaceful_sands can be found here: Max Coulson, Agent of SHIELD, by peaceful_sands
I'd had a semi-formed idea for a resulting story (which I'm sure I'll never actually write, to be honest) of my own for the concept. But the author took the idea and ran with it, in ways I'd never really thought of (ie Clint being with Coulson, and him being the one to spot Max as she ran from the Manticore guards - my first reaction being 'that's brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?', not to mention how she worked in the events of a certain S2 ep to provide the climax of the plot) It really was an interesting experience, and all praise to peaceful_sands for taking my fuzzy concept and turning out a well-written story from it.
The hardest parts of making the banner were a) finding a screenshot of young Max (I spent about two hours scouring the internet for a really good pic; still didn't find the one I really wanted, of young Max framed in a part-open car door - as I said above, a lot of the Dark Angel fandom was wiped out with geocities) and in getting the SHIELD logo onto Max's jacket. I took a shot of Natasha from Avengers, when she was standing at a similar angle to the shot I'd selected of Max, then cropped the pic to just the SHIELD logo. I used paintbox to scribble some black around the edges, so it was (mostly) even, then pasted it onto the sleeve of pic-Max and saved it as a new file. I'm sure there are any amount of artists out there who could have done something much better, but this is probably the most complicated thing I've tried yet, and I'm quite proud of myself, and how well the finished banner turned out.