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Title: Death Gliders
By: Leyna
For: Mific
Media Used: Digital Painting
Rating: G
Fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis
Warnings: None
Summary: Steampunk!AU. The Pegasus Expedition journeys to a distant archipelago where they find the beautiful deserted City of the Ancients, awaken the deadly Wraith fleets, and become entangled in the politics of the God-Kings and their City-States. Here, John and Rodney escape from the city of the Serpent-God in stolen Death Gliders.
Notes: Thank you Mific, for the SGA inspiration. Your request for "Any setting. Any type of wings" got me speculating - in a Steampunk!AU are the Puddlejumpers and Death Gliders individual winged antigravity transports instead of small spacecraft? I chose to paint Death Gliders because the Goa'uld designs were gorgeous, and I wanted to play around with some of those elements – plus the thought of a SGA team vs Apophis confrontation was fun.

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Oh this is GORGEOUS! Their winged outfits and the details of the Goa'uld tech are stunning. And Rodney's face, so delighted and wondering, and John's complicated expression looking down on him. I just love every part of it - the SKY! Amazing use of colour, and John and Rodney flying together, just as I asked for. Thank you so, so much!

I'm glad you like it. Thank you for the inspiration!

As soon as I saw your prompt I had all kinds of ideas. What would puddlejumper wings look like? What would Rodney be doing (craning his head trying to see the mechanical aspects, looking wide-eyed and unsettled? geeking out?). Is John more distracted by the joy of flying or Rodney's reactions? Then I saw a gorgous photo of a stormy sky over wheat fields, which inspired the colours of this and for using the bronze goa'uld designs instead.

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leyna - 2012-12-19 07:49 (UTC) - Expand

Oh wow, amazing! I love the colors and composition and the design of the gliders.

Thank you! I loved the prompt, and I've always loved the goa'uld tech designs, so this was a great chance to play around with that.

I opened this in another tab without looking at the details, then went "HOLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING...must be drawn by Leyna" And sure enough... :) i really like the composition and worldbuilding too, like a cross between Gu'ald design and a Michaelangelo fresco.

:D I laughed and I'm very flattered, too!

Renaissance angels were very definitely a design inspiration once I'd decided on the colour scheme, and I had fun thinking about this AU while I was painting.

What an intriguing scenario this painting suggests! Very cool!

Thank you :) I think my favourite paintings to work on are the ones with intriguing scenarios or stories attached.

This is incredible!

Their expressions are amazing, the composition makes me feel like I'm flying, and I love that Rodney's wearing a dress shirt under his breastplate. An original idea with great design.

Thank you! I like the way the composition of this turned out (design not being my strong point!)

Rodney's dress shirt is one of the few elements remaining to show it is a steampunk AU concept. I like to imagine he was annoyed because his suit jacket wouldn't fit under the armour, and he had to leave it behind in the escape :)

Breathtaking! I love the concept, and the breastplate/wings are gorgeous and so interesting. And their so expressive faces, just gorgeous.

Thank you! I had a burst of inspiration on this one (concept, colour palette, and design) - which is always a great way to start a painting :)

That is just lovely, the colour and composition and the faces. Just gorgeous.

I don't think that the Phryne Fisher mysteries have made it over the ditch yet - but I adore the books and want to see what's what with the tv show. (And oops, that refers to the comment you made in your personal LJ rather than here. Too much Xmas?)

Edited 2012-12-19 07:32 (UTC)

Thank you!

:D The Phryne books are a lot of fun, and I really loved the series, too. It is also fun, and gorgeous looking, and all the cast are great. It has a few differences from the books - mostly some extra plots introduced and extra backstory for Phryne.

The actress playing Phryne is wonderful, but she is older than book Phryne, which gives an slightly different (but interesting) spin to it. They also cast a charming actor as Inspector Jack Robinson, who is a similar age to Phryne, so he is no longer the avuncular book character (who admittedly wasn't one of my favourites). TV!Jack has awesome chemistry with Phryne, too, which the show is very well aware of and is playing up.

Omg the lighting and the colors and the composition are mind blowing. SO AMAZING.

Thank you! I am very happy with the colour and the composition of this one.

Oh, my gosh, this is just amazing. The colors are scrumptious!

Thank you! I found a gorgeous photo of wheatfields under a stormy sky, which ended up being my colour palette and sky inspiration, and that in turn inspired the concept.

Oh, my Gods, that is so gorgeous! The sky, their faces, their hands, the amazingly cool wings... You win everything with this, as far as I'm concerned.

And now, as usual, I'm hoping someone decides to write the story that goes with this. If I could write my way out of wet tissues paper, I'd do it myself, but I can't hold a plot together to save my life.

Anyway, thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent! I always love your work, even when I'm not in the fandom, but it's even better when I am. *g*

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Edited 2012-12-19 07:44 (UTC)

Thank you! I had a very strong inspiration of colour, design and concept, and everything else just worked out easily (I love those sorts of paintings!).

I enjoyed thinking up ideas for this AU as I was working on it, but it would be great if someone was inspired to write the story :) (I can come up with plots, but can't write my way out of wet tissues, either :D )

This is so incredibly gorgeous! It really does remind me of Renaissance art, like there should be symbolic meaning in the gestures of their hands and the directions of their gazes. And the clouds behind are wonderful: John's got a halo of sorts!

Thank you, I'm very happy with the way it turned out! The Renaissance angels influence wasn't intentional to start with but the more I blocked in the colours and poses, the more obvious it was just what my concept was influenced by :)

Wow, this is amazing! So beautiful: the details, their expressions, the colours...

Thank you! The goa'uld tech design's in SG-1 are gorgeous, and I wanted a chance to play around them, hence all the tech details :)

Oh, my, that's lovely! The details are just gorgeous and the story intrigues me. Oh, the colors!

Thank you! I couldn't just paint John and Rodney flying - they had to be goa'uld steampunk angels (my brain is indeed an odd place)and then I had to think up SOME explanation for it! :D

Oh . . . my. The sky. Their poses. The Goa'uld collar and hand device. Rodney's utterly rapt expression. John's hair. ;) The guys are quite reminiscent of Michelangelo angels, wings, "halos," and all. And such beautiful colors . . .

As usual, you did GOOD, bb!

Thank you! I've missed painting John's hair :D

I sometimes have really strong inspirations (in this case colour, composition, poses etc) and then I'm half way through the painting before I realise Oh, Renaissance angels, of course! That's the inspiration! :)

This is fantastic!

Thank you!

That is simply gorgeous.

Thank you!

Had to come back so I could save this pic on my main laptop. So, so gorgeous! It's very difficult to break away from gazing at this.

I have to ask: what is the red crystal floating between their hands?

Truthfully, I have no idea what that red crystal is. When I was mocking up the design and colours, it needed something red in that location to balance, and then I had to build it into the image.

I figure, though, that during their escape, they took with them a few goa'uld things (like the staff weapon and the ribbon device) and have just discovered that the ribbon device activates it. Cue distracted Rodney and John thinking maybe now is not the best time to investigate. And Apophis' sending an army after them to get it back :D

Beautiful artwork! I love the idea of John and Rodney involved with Goa'uld stuff. And the steampunk twist is just awesome.

Thank you! It would be a fun AU :)

Oooh, that's amazing.

Love the textures on the wings and wow, just everything.

Hey there! Good to see you around.

Thank you/ The goa'uld tech had really gorgeous textures and designs. I just needed an excuse to paint them. :)

So incredible! Just love this art, steampunk angels!

If you wander back to see this - thank you for commenting :)

Absolutely stunning! Both the colors and composition as well as the world building.

Thank you! I must be a frustrated author, because sometimes I love the world building aspects best :)

Oh wow, this is absolutely gorgeous. The composition and lighting are fantastic, and I love the massive amounts of worldbuilding you've implied here. And their facial expressions! This is just lovely.

Thank you! I had such a strong inspiration of the colours and concept - and then I wanted to come up with an explanation of WHY they were dressed as Goa'uld steampunk angels :D