Fanart, Fanfiction and Fangirling

Merry Christmas DW and LJ friends! I'm spending the day with my parents eating too much (as usual).

I haven't posted the Christmas cards I made for polarforscherin and schwimmerin yet. I know the former arrived safe and sound, I hope the latter did too. Anyway, I'm putting them behind a cut, just in case schwimmerin hasn't received hers yet and doesn't want spoilers. ^_^'

( Christmas cards )

So, polarforscherin's Christmas card seems to be lost forever. :(

Luckily, I always take pictures of the cards I draw before sending them, so she can at least see what it looked like:

( Polarforscherin's Christmas card )

Hopefully it's one of those cases when letters turn up randomly months or years later. Never say never! XD

And while I'm on the topic of Christmas cards, here are the other two I sent this year:

( Schwimmerin's Christmas card )

( Funk's Christmas card )

Christmas cards sent! I had to send my special errand boy (aka my dad) to the post office because I could barely stand this morning, but I'm feeling better now. The power nap I took in the afternoon definitely helped.

I also decided to be productive and doodled something:



I hadn't drawn anything Harry-Potter-related in years, and I mean literally years, and since I've been in a Hermione mood lately, the choice was predictable.

I should also work on the Mystrade fic I started, but I don't know if I can actually write the dirty bits. I'm getting old. XD

I spent the whole afternoon yesterday working on a comic strip. It really shouldn't have taken so long, but I'm terribly rusty. It took me a while to figure out what style to use, then this happened:



I drew on paper and coloured the pictures in Photoshop. The only problem is I don't have a decent scanner at home, so I had to touch up the lineart of every single drawing, which means it took me twice as long. Oh, well, hopefully I'll be able to post the finished strip either tonight or tomorrow.

And yes, it's going to be silly.

Sorry for posting twice in a day, but I've just finished my first trope_bingo art and I wanted to post it before going to sleep. It's genderswap! I've wanted to draw something like this ever since I read "Some kind of Freaky Friday" by delicatale (because the way she described female!Steve was damn hot), but I never actually did it. Until now! I also thought of writing something to go along with it, but it would end up being too similar to the bodyswap story I'm currently writing, so I just drew the fanart.

I drew it on paper and coloured in with Photoshop, it's nothing fancy but I'm glad I finished it. Also, I suck at drawing hands and shoes, but that's nothing new.

Preview:


( I got a little carried away drawing Steve's eyelashes )

I wanted to draw some Christmas fanart but I've been terribly busy and not really inspired. I'm working on something right now, but it's not Christmas related, so I'll post it when it's done, maybe on Boxing Day.

But I do have some Christmassy fanart! The card I sent to schwimmerin, it arrived on the other side of the Atlantic safe and sound and before the 25th!

( Farin wishes everyone a very rock'n'roll Xmas! )

And here's our new Christmas decoration, an adorable owl family we got at the arts and crafts fair a couple of weeks ago (the silver snowflake was not included):

( Hoot! )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Today I was finally able to watch the latest H50 episode. I downloaded it days ago but didn't have time until this morning. Things at work are still insanely busy, I'm alone in the office doing the work of 2 people and on top of everything else today we launched the new website of the local newspaper I collaborate with. I'm exhausted. Hopefully I'll be able to fix the last ongoing problem at work next week, so I can relax for a few days over Christmas.

And while we're talking about Hawaii Five-0, I said I would buy Season 1 for my mum, right? Well, I couldn't find it anywhere. It was released in July and it's gone. Luckily I found it on Amazon.it, I should receive the parcel at work on Tuesday.

Here, have a spoiler video from next week's episode, it cheered me up immensely (unless you don't like Steve/Cath, in that case don't click):

http://bookemdanno.net/media/3-11-clip-002/

Aaand urania_chan got my Christmas card! I didn't know what to draw this year, so I used one of her LJ icons for inspiration.

( Gone with the Wind - Xmas Edition )

Aaah, I'm enjoying my day off immensely. Sure, I checked my work email this morning because there are a couple of things that are still ongoing, but I forwared the important ones to my boss and the others can wait.

I was thinking of going to the Christmas market, but I didn't feel like facing the cold and the hordes of Christmas shoppers. So I slept in, had a waffle for breakfast and caught up with some online stuff this morning, so now all I have to do is finish two Christmas cards. I still need to buy a present for my friend S, my dad and my mum, but I know what to buy, so it shouldn't be a problem. Actually, I've already bought a present for my mum, but my dad didn't know what to get her, so I suggested the Hawaii Five-0 DVDs and kindly offered to buy them for him. I am so very generous. Can you believe they released Season 1 on DVD just a couple of months ago?! I wanted to buy it for my mum last Christmas but couldn't find the DVDs anywhere and then last summer I found out it hadn't been released for the Italian market yet! Oh, well, at least they're here now.

And while we're talking about H50 and Christmas, azziria got my card! I only sent it on Monday or Tuesday, I'm very impressed.

( Steve says 'Mele Kalikimaka!' )

This is that H50 picture I was talking about. As some of you may have seen, rocsfan had pretty much the same idea a few days ago. I didn't know about her entry at first (I was walking to the office when inspiration struck) and hopefully no one will think I'm stealing other people's ideas. Since we all know how much Steve loves grenades, it was kind of inevitable that more than one person would get the same idea, right?

Preview:


( Easter eggs, McGarrett style )

Dear LJ, your timing is really awful: you worked perfectly well this morning, but when I finally have a free moment to post, you decide to throw a tantrum. I hate you.

Anyway, let's make this quick while LJ is working. Here, have some sappy Steve/Danny fanart. Drawn for h5oartvalentine's Valentine's Day fest, I used this prompt from sexycazzy: Steve/Danny - Steve plays the guitar to Danny at his small apartment.

I used this picture as inspiration. Background pattern found here.

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