Fanart: Coffee Stains Upon Your Heart
Coffee Stains Upon Your Heart is a wonderful little fic by Claire that I stumbled upon while going through [insert random AO3 user's name here]'s bookmarks and am forever grateful I did. It manages to be a very emotional fic without many words, it flows beautifully and it just feels so Charles and Erik. I don't know, I'm bad at explaining myself and analyzing/commenting art, which is why I generally refrain from doing it.
The point is, I loved the fic and I did some art for it. And more importantly, you should read the fic, because you'll love it.
Okay, so, for those who haven't read the fic [DO IT NOW], ahem, I mean, here's what it's about - [highlight to see, there are spoilers] Charles and Erik meet every month for coffee in a small coffee shop, they talk and ask about the health of the others from the original group and generally just pretend that they're not enemies now and that their respective first priorities shouldn't be killing the other. There's also an adorable mutant waitress Mary who wants to fly but somehow ended up with the shitty power of talking to plants.
So, I know that Charles is supposed to have a really futuristic high-tech chair, but I couldn't be bothered with it so he's gonna have to be satisfied with the commoners' option. I also know that it wasn't in the fic but I made them look a bit older and more tired than they are in First Class (and even gave Charles a stubble and longer hair), so I hope that works. I purposefully made the background sort of just more blurry, without really clear lines so that it wouldn't be the focus of attention. And I managed to squeeze in Mary's name, which I am well proud of. And they're both wearing Chucks because of reasons. So yeah. It might not really be exactly what the author had in mind with this fic, but well. And the fic really deserves much better art than my clumsy fumbling with a pencil (I will forever curse the fact that the only image-processing program I have/know how to work with is Paint), but I did my best, and while it may not be spectacular, it's the most I can do. Hopefully it's decent enough.
In related news, Fassy's face is forever my enemy number one when drawing.
Right, so enough ranting, here's the drawing (click on it for the large version).
Well, that's um. That, I guess (Idk, I've never posted art before) xD Feedback is always appreciated ^^
The point is, I loved the fic and I did some art for it. And more importantly, you should read the fic, because you'll love it.
Okay, so, for those who haven't read the fic [DO IT NOW], ahem, I mean, here's what it's about - [highlight to see, there are spoilers] Charles and Erik meet every month for coffee in a small coffee shop, they talk and ask about the health of the others from the original group and generally just pretend that they're not enemies now and that their respective first priorities shouldn't be killing the other. There's also an adorable mutant waitress Mary who wants to fly but somehow ended up with the shitty power of talking to plants.
So, I know that Charles is supposed to have a really futuristic high-tech chair, but I couldn't be bothered with it so he's gonna have to be satisfied with the commoners' option. I also know that it wasn't in the fic but I made them look a bit older and more tired than they are in First Class (and even gave Charles a stubble and longer hair), so I hope that works. I purposefully made the background sort of just more blurry, without really clear lines so that it wouldn't be the focus of attention. And I managed to squeeze in Mary's name, which I am well proud of. And they're both wearing Chucks because of reasons. So yeah. It might not really be exactly what the author had in mind with this fic, but well. And the fic really deserves much better art than my clumsy fumbling with a pencil (I will forever curse the fact that the only image-processing program I have/know how to work with is Paint), but I did my best, and while it may not be spectacular, it's the most I can do. Hopefully it's decent enough.
In related news, Fassy's face is forever my enemy number one when drawing.
Right, so enough ranting, here's the drawing (click on it for the large version).
Well, that's um. That, I guess (Idk, I've never posted art before) xD Feedback is always appreciated ^^