Art for omelton: The Only Selfish Action

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Title: The Only Selfish Action
Recipient: omelton
Artist: vernets
Rating: PG
Medium: Ink & digital
Characters: H&W

Comments

[omelton.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful!
A beautiful style and such a cinematic feel to the whole presentation. Their facial expressions are so vivid, they really draw me in and make me ache for the characters (oh, let them make up again!). I also love the way you drew the smoke swirling. My favorite panels are 10 and 12, I think they're beautifully balanced.

I like the detailed focus on Watson smoking (as opposed to the more usual(?) other way around) and I also love the fact that Holmes, in gesture and expression, is very much an emotional creature here.

And I do wonder what the poison was that Holmes drank!

Thank you very much for your lovely work!

[vernets.livejournal.com]

It was quite exciting to get you as recipient! Hopefully that wasn't too angsty (obviously they make up afterwards) and maybe there's a bit of romance if you squint? So glad you liked it, it was challenging to try to do something different — in both style and story — than my usual.

Let's go with one not too deadly, I don't think he'd go around licking poisonous darts or ivory boxes.

(I would have loved doing something about gender & such, because it's a fascinating topic, but alas I'm better at reading about it than creating something out of it.)

[omelton.livejournal.com]

Wasn't too angsty at all, and plenty of potential for either romantic or platonic interpretation! You handled the longer format beautifully, I think.
I agree that topics of gender aren't always easy to pull off - I always plan to draw more in that direction than I actually do. That said, I fortuitously found a recent canon fanfiction that deals with genderqueerness and other permutations as much as I could wish for, so I want for nothing. :)

Also, I hope you don't mind (the image wouldn't go away):

[vernets.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOSH.