comica_obscura fanart

[ratcreature]

The authors of this year's comica_obscura have been revealed, and I'm going to use that opportunity to post the fanart I drew here and on my website.

Fandom: DC Comics (Batverse)
Characters/Pairings: Jim Gordon
Rating: G
Media used: Pencil drawing, inked and colored in GIMP
Warnings: None
Notes: This is an illustration for petronelle's story Squandered my resistance. The recipient was voleuse. It's kind of for the final scene. That scene didn't describe a setting, but I imagined the introspection happening when Jim Gordon is back in his office after meeting yet another Robin for the first time. You can also look at the initial pencils (ca. 83k).
Preview:





As for other fanart related things, I swear I haven't forgotten about doing the requests from my previous post. I am working on those, not least to procrastinate the search for 2-on-2 basketball game references, since that motif won the Kick the Sloth!RatCreature poll on which elaborate fanart I ought to draw next. (OMG, drawing sports! what was I thinking?! *gulp*) It's just that the extent of my laziness isn't fully covered by "procrastination" at the moment (which kind of implies doing something else) and is truly in the sloth territory of spending considerable time with playing Websudoku and such. On that note, perhaps I really ought to make a sloth icon...

I also didn't have the best couple of days, not any major misfortunes or anything like that, but I refrained from posting three separate entries whining about various stuff during the last couple of days. Topics were things like "ways pet rats can cause significant annoyances and destruction", "how security updates broke my computer and I spent hours fixing it", "why getting dizzy and fainting sucks, especially when you bang your knee falling down" (and please don't feed my inner hypochondriac by telling me all the possible awful reasons that could cause fainting like that; I've already decided to be on the safe side and better get checked out next week despite my general aversion to doctor visits just to make sure that there are no serious problems with my circulation, blood pressure or whatever else might cause this kind of thing, not least because I really don't fancy falling on my face again).

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

The Jim Gordon is wonderful, but...rat destruction? Computer crises? Fainting???? Man, you're right about your last few days. ::pets you::

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you like the picture. :)

And well, to be fair, none of the stuff was all that major. Like for example, my rat Ben squeezed/chewed himself behind some shelves which I had thought sufficiently blocked and decided it'd be nice to sleep in that small dark space behind those comics, so when wanted to lock my rats up around midnight that day I couldn't find him (I had last seen him in his regular favorite outside sleeping spot and had assumed he was dozing there), and he didn't come when I called either, so I had to search all off-limits and (normally) rat-proofed places for him. I mean, most of those are either dangerous for the rat or for my stuff if a rat gets hold of it (like them chewing on signed first editions of comics that have sketches by the artist in them, which thankfully he didn't this time), so waiting for him to come out on his own overnight wasn't an option. And since a rat isn't that large it means there are several such places, and I had to drag boxes and furniture around after midnight, and had to try to do that quietly too, though I suspect that as it was my neighbors might not have been too thrilled.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love it!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! =)

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

This art is just gorgeous. I love that his face is partially obscured, and the slump of his shoulder, and how tired his eyes are. It twists the knife in the same glorious way the story did, for me.

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I'm happy to hear that his expression and posture jibe with the story for you.