{fanart} After Party

[altocello]

Title: After Party
Recipient: aarins_rou
Artist: altocello
Rating: G
Pairings: Bradley/Colin
Medium: Graphite on paper
Warnings: None
Artist's Notes: The bits of the prompt that I picked up on were: Bradley/Colin, happily drunk, falling asleep on one another, possessiveness/protectiveness, National Television Awards 2012. Which made me think of the two of them in the taxi after the after party... Many many thanks are due, as always, to my betas reni_m and amphigoury, and to fuzzytomato02 for talking me into it in the first place.
Disclaimer: The characters depicted herein belong to Shine and BBC. I make no profit from this endeavor.



References used included photos taken by major media at the NTA's, BBC official Merlin promos found at Merlinskeep, and random pictures of the insides of London taxi cabs.

Comments

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Whoo! After party!!

[altocello.livejournal.com]

\o/

[fuzzytomato02.livejournal.com]

You already know how much I love this art! I love Colin's undone bow tie and Bradley's arm draped over his shoulders and his tie as well. :D thank you so much for participating in the fest \o/ I'm glad I coerced you into it.

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you tomato! I had fun with it (drawing the boys dressed up and disheveled is becoming a favorite thing of mine), so I am also glad you coerced me into it. :D

[mightypretty.livejournal.com]

lovely! Adore their rumpled clothes <3

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The rumples in the clothes are the most fun. :D

[kathyh]

That's gorgeous. Undone ties like that are a major kink of mine and this hits all my buttons. Really lovely work.

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I loved rumpling them up a bit in those gorgeous clothes. :D

[katie-andrew.livejournal.com]

They look all rumpled and mischievous. :D

[altocello.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes they do. And your icon is perfect. :D

[waltzing-mice.livejournal.com]

Lovely details and Merlin's expression! :D

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you mice! LOL, his expression. I stumbled on a couple of behind the scenes promos where he was directing that really amused look at Bradley, and it was just too good. :D

[chaosmaka.livejournal.com]

This is just beautiful! Great work, thank you :) ♥

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I had fun drawing them all dressed up but rumpled and adorable. :D

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[aarins-rou.livejournal.com]

omg, omg omgoooooooooooooooood
i was all over the moon when someone claimed my prompt and now im sitting here in front of your pic and ... ASADSHFJSFHGHFKASFKJSKFJA - i cant.

its beautiful, its amazing, its perfect.

i love their rumpled clothes, especially colins undone bow tie and his mischievous grin. i love how you put them into the dim privacy of a cab!!
you have know idea how close to home/my headcanon about that night you've hit with this!!

thank you so, so, so much for this!!!

♥

Re: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[altocello.livejournal.com]

\o/

You are very very welcome! It makes me so happy to know you are so pleased with it! I had fun with everything in this, and I'm so glad the details really speak to you! <3

[isisanubis.livejournal.com]

I love Bradley's I'm-not-checking-you-out-but-I-totally-am look, and Colin side eyeing him (that smirk!).

I like that I can't tell if they look like they're on their way to or from the after party.

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have this idea that Bradley would get rather fond and invasive of personal space after a few drinks. And that Colin would still be more reserved, but amused by his antics. :D

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Looks great. I think you really captured their looks. Loved the undone bow tie.

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I've solidified my love of loosened/undone ties while drawing this one. :D

[sheswatching.livejournal.com]

omg I love this, cello! i remember when this was just a bare outline! turned out really great. loooooooove Colin's face so much xD

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you, cheese! I am so glad Colin's expression came through so clearly; his amusement at Bradley's antics was important to me! :D

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Love it! The totally rumpled look both of them are sporting, Colin's little smirk, Bradley's usual besotted look, awesome!

Keeps making me think of that interview where Bradley really looked like he wanted to take that interviewer gushing all over Colin apart piece by little piece!

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Rumpling them up was fun, and the looks on their faces are taken from a couple of actual behind the scenes promo photos of them looking at each other.

LOL, that interview was hilarious. "Give it a tug!" :D

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

"Give it a tug!" and when the guy did, suddenly, Bradley had nothing nice to say to the man after that! Hee!

Not surprised that you based those expressions on actual photos cuz I recognize those looks, esp Bradley's. He looks at Colin that way so often! And non-slashers wonder where we get this stuff from? *shakes head*

Again though, wonderful drawing. It's fantastic!

[altocello.livejournal.com]

Thank you again, I had fun doing it!

(And I love your icon, even though I'm not supposed to, since it's a formerly private picture, but look at the love, man.)

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

(Is it? I totally got it from a public site. Guess it wasn't so private at that point. But yeah, lotsa love!)