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had a kind o' poetry to it ([personal profile] altocello) wrote2012-03-29 09:00 pm

{fanart} Looking for Solutions to the Impossible for merlin_games

Title: Looking for Solutions to the Impossible
Rating: G
Characters/relationships: Gaius, Merlin
Content notes: Pencil on paper. Drawn for the merlin_games Tournament of Champions, and originally submitted anonymously there. Now that the challenge is done I am allowed to de-anon!
Summary: In which Gaius and Merlin do what they always do when presented with an impossible problem; they research it.



(If you're interested, the original post at merlin_games is here.)

I am really proud of this one. It came out so well, and I really have to thank my betas, [profile] reni_m, [personal profile] amphigoury, [profile] gwyntastic, my cheerleader [personal profile] fuzzytomato02, and all the other fabulous folks at gsdmerlin who gave me encouragement even if they had no idea what exactly I was working on. You all rock.

[identity profile] altocello.livejournal.com 2012-03-30 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, tomato! I like Gaius, he's fun to draw. All the wrinkles are so interesting! I fell in love with Merlin's pose when I saw it in one of Gwyn's icons, lol; I asked her if it was a manip (it wasn't) and she pointed me to the episode where she found the screencap. After that it was a matter of beating the composition with a stick made of 3 awesome betas to make it work, lol.