Art: G, Never Do That Again

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Title Never do that again
Artist Ani_Bester
Rating G
Characters Tony Stark and James Barnes
Media Watercolor and India Ink on sketch book paper

Notes This is an illustration from pandanoai's and kijikun's fic "Storybook." It's based on a scene from the end of chapter 3, and I just *adored* it. It made me laugh out loud, and I had to draw it. I've actually been sitting on the sketch for a long while and finally got a chance to finish painting it.



Tony barely smirked. "I won't say I told you so since you saved my life."
"Gee willikers, thanks Mr. Stark," James said brightly.
Tony turned his head and gave James a horrified look. "That was creepy. Never do that again."

Comments

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

YAY! I love Tony's horrified expression. It's okay Tony even Bucky can't stand to talk like that for long.

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

^__^ I'm glad you like it! (esp since you saw the original sketch and can compare!) I'm lovig the fic so much I don't even have words.

It's just so awesome and officially fic I most anticipate.

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

Oh squee!!

This is fabulous :D :D This really made my day! I love James and Tony's outfits and the hand gesture of James, and Tony's irked expression XD priceless.

And the watercolors just add to the surreal fairytale feel!! It's wonderful!

Thank you so much! *glomps you*

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

You are so so welcome! Thank you (and Kiji) so much for the amazing fic. Currently it is the fic I am most impatient for next chapters *L*

TOny's expression was pretty easy *L* He does horrified and distrubed well. James's was harder because it was hard to convey they cute + teasing thing, and really it needed to be animated.

But that is a bit beyond me.
. . . I would so animate this fic though if I could *.*

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

I love your gestural style with the ink. And their expressions are priceless!

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Hee thank you so so much.
It's my fun style. I enjoy being loose and gestural with watercolors, rather than more rpecise, but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Luckily for a fairy tale type story I think it worked well ^__^

And thanks for the comment on the expressions. James's was pretty hard for me to get =P

[dorcas-gustine.livejournal.com]

Love the colors! And Bucky's face! LOL This is great.

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Ee thank you Croyola watercolors are awesome and cheap *L*
And yay! OMG Bucky's expression was so hard to get because it was just this split moment that I had to hang between innocent kid and snarky adult. It was hard. Thank god for lightboxes, because the original sketch is erased so much in the area the color would have looked funky on his face *L*

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Oh, pretty! Great colorwork, very vibrant.

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Ee! thank you so much!
Heh, the color work is all crayoloa watercolors actually. I find for something the super vibrant/unreal colors work really well. And they mix interestingly on sketch paper, in a different way from my professional set.

[runenklinge.livejournal.com]

you captured the horrified-part perrrrrfectly^^
the whole pic has a nice fairytale-ish feeling to it, very dream-like

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Hee thanks! Tony did that so well. his expression just snapped into place. James was a pain =P

I'm glad I got the fairy-tale look going with the style. It is my favorite style, but doesn't work for everything (crayola watercolors btw = made of awesome for things like this because the colors are just overly vibrant and unreal *L*)

[northstar-rocks.livejournal.com]

Oi! thats mighty fine work there! Water colours are a tricky medium in my opinion you've done very well! I adore the expression on Bucky's face, its perfect, his pose is great too <3

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Eee thank you ^__^
I adore watercolors so much, they've got such wonderful spontaneity.
And also gleee I'm so glad Bucky's expression works! I can't tell you how i fretted over that!

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

Oh god, this is exactly what happened in my head at that part!

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks! I just loved the scene. I love Bucky when he is snarky ^__^

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

And terrifying as all get out!

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Yes! That too. He's great. I jsut wish there could be him and Steve again :(