by the gold light of your halo

[reflectedeve]

I LOVE ALL MY CHEMICAL ROMANCES. ♥_♥ Just in case there was still any question about that.



Something else that I love? bexless' Unholyverse series. I Have Been All Things Unholy was basically my dream fic. (Since I was sixteen, I've occasionally been working on a foolishly epic comic concept about Catholicism and agnosticism that features the devil masquerading as a priest. I am kind of a theology nerd. There is nothing I love more than these sorts of themes.) I really wanted to do fanart for it - heck, I'd been wanting to do priest!Gerard fanart since my second week in bandom, when I first saw the photoshoot - but weirdly, I just didn't have any ideas. Last year was not a good year for art.

I did doodle this little panel the other day . . . of course, I forgot that Ray's actually supposed to be laughing when he says that line, but that bit cracks me up every time regardless.

But hey, it's a new year, I'm a whole new fanartist, and Staring Through The Demons proved . . . very inspiring. *g*

Three images below the cut, rated no higher than PG-13. About as spoilery as it gets, in case you're saving the series up to read when it's done.

I wasn't going to put captions in the inked versions of these, but then the second one wound up incorporating the words, so I just made it consistent. Quotes are from the fic, of course, and thus bexless.



The kiss! Kisses are fucking hard to draw . . . only took me three tries. *g* Background has issues and I went and put Frank's lipring on the wrong side (one of my reference images was flipped and I'm a little dumb when I'm into it), but ah well. Mikey, oddly, is my favorite part (I loved that the fic was from his perspective).



I cannot resist a big dramatic sacrificial moment. And . . . yes. ;_; (There is a big version of this one here.)



Group shot! Dear gods, I can't draw Ray. /o\ Actually, most of them look a little off, but I don't know . . . yay team! Band! Whichever. ♥

Whew. I have been working on those for awhile now. :)

Comments

[guinsky.livejournal.com]

Short version? I want to be Bex. @_@

So as I just told you in a way-too-interrupted-by-work way, I love them. I am SO excited to finally see them all. The kissing is totally right, and also Frank in the last one--his body language is so spot on.

SO PRETTY. ILU. <3 I still love the occasional outlining thing you've been doing too. And your Bob is hawt. And also, they all look like them! They look like them, you-style. Which is a good way to be. Also, something I didn't mention when I saw the 2nd one the first time (...) is how awesome the background is. I love the expressiveness of even the slumped-over figures. And little evil hooded dude!

You are totally going to make noises about this, but whatever, I am SO JEALOUS OF YOUR SKILLS.

<3

[reflectedeve.livejournal.com]

I did not mind that you were at work! This, however, is incredibly sweet to read. ♥ Thank you, honey.

I guess that having them look like themselves, me-style, is really the ultimate goal . . . to turn them into my own characters rather than half-attempts at portraiture, which really isn't my strength. So that's good to hear!

And seriously, what the fuck ever. :p I can say the same back, and I'm sure I will again when you post what you've been working on.

♥