Ladies Big Bang (art complement): Still Life, read by sophinisba (BSG)

[yue_ix]

Title: Still Life (BSG, Dee & Starbuck)
Length: 31 minutes
Reader: sophinisba
Author: having_written/fallingtowers (the name changed since we did these, ahah ^^; )
Cover Design: yue_ix
Story summary: If she’d been more like Starbuck, she could have been loud and angry and looking for a fight; but she was a follower of Hestia and Hebe, a quiet onlooker trying to keep the home-fires burning.

Art Content Notes: spoiler for the ending of the fic, strong contrasts, might look really bright on some screens. Unofficially done for ladiesbigbang.




Artist Notes: This is an unofficial Big Bang complement for Sophinisba's ladiesbigbang Still Life podfic, because she rocks. Battlestar Galactica (2003) isn't my fandom - I've never even seen the show - but Sophinisba was kind enough to provide references pictures and vids as a quick overview. I hope you'll forgive any remaining liberties I took with the characters.

This was entirely done on Photoshop 7, in about 30 layers and 6 default brushes. It was very strange to paint so many elements on the same layer, but felt necessary to have the right feel of a 2D canva for the cabin wall.

Cover:


Full view:


Close ups and WIP:




A WIP shot:


A quick look of what's underneath the characters' layer, to see the house and Dee's pomegranates tree:




Download as MP3 or M4B: link to podfic post

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I followed Sophinisba's link here. This is extremely lovely art!

[yue_ix]

Thank you! I'm glad to have been able to make something for Sophinisba in the end. ^^

[fallingtowers]

Thank you ever so much for this wonderful artwork! I've never had fanart for one of my stories before, and this is absolutely gorgeous and breath-taking! ♥

[yue_ix]

Hi! Thank you for those very kind words. This was mostly created after discussions with Sophinisba about the characters' art expressions in your story, and imagery that stood out most to her. You had very vivid colour and scenes descriptions that were lovely to work with, for my part as an artist. I'm really happy you like it!

[fallingtowers]

I'm really happy you like it!

Oh, I really, really do. ♥

Also, your amazing artwork tells me that I must have got the underlying art theme of my story right somehow, so double yay! ;) (Sorry - that sounds horribly self-centred. It's just that this is a story that I was very emotionally invested in and I'm still rather proud of, so I'm just tickled that an artist who didn't even know the fandom could work with the imagery.)

[sophinisba]

What happened here was that I did not get my first draft done by the deadline so I was not officially eligible for a complement, but Yue wrote to me anyway to ask if I was planning to finish and I sort of pounced on her and said "LOOK THIS STORY IS ABOUT ARTISTS and also look how hot these characters are WOULD YOU PLEASE PLEEEEEEASE MAKE ART FOR IT" and then she did!

:D :D

[fallingtowers]

Heh. The hotness of Anastasia Dualla and Kara Thrace would certainly be a good selling point!

[yue_ix]

It really was! The references pictures and vids were certainly full of pretties. =)