Giftart for Zephre!

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Title: Ekaterin's Proposal
Gift for: zephre
Artist: beccastareyes
Rating: G
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga
Characters: Front Row: Vassily Vorsoisson, Hugo Vorvayne, Ekaterin Vorkosigan, Nikki Vorsoisson, Professora Vorthys. Middle Row: Various random Barrayarans, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Aral Vorkosigan.
Warnings: Spoilers for A Civil Campaign. Miles/Ekaterin in context.
Artist notes: Medium is watercolor and colored pencil. I was going to throw in Ivan next to Professora Vorthys, but I ran out of room. Also, this is the last time I pick an illustration that involves a crowd scene. (At least I wasn't trying to illustrate Miles's dinner party.)
Summary:

Ekaterin leaned forward, gripping the railing with her knuckles going pale. "Let's finish this. Lord Vorkosigan?"

Miles jerked in his seat, taken by surprise. "Madame?" He made a little half-bow gesture. "Yours to command..."

"Good. Will you marry me?" (From A Civil Campaign Chapter Nineteen, as reprinted in Miles in Love omnibus, page 762)

Comments

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

You certainly chose an ambitious subject! I'm having a good time looking at all the different faces and expressions and outfits. Great job!

[beccastareyes]

Thank you. That was a lot of the difficulty -- making a crowd that looked like an actual crowd, including reacting in different ways, but keeping the focus on the series characters, rather than the extras.

[zephre.livejournal.com]

oh, my goodness look at all those characters! this is great! and the facial expressions are so wonderful.
thank you!

[beccastareyes]

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

This is so cute! I've only read one of the books, but I love this piece. Very nice expressions and a good sense of the scene. :)

[beccastareyes]

Thanks you.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I love it when Nikki is all YAY! Crows scenes? Dinner party, how about the royal wedding? ;)

[beccastareyes]

Oh, heavens, don't tempt me.

Nikki is my favorite, too.

[leyna55.livejournal.com]

I love that scene in the book - great choice! Very cute picture - Nikki's gleeful hands, and the happy shocked expressions on the Professora and Cordelia. I'm very taken with Aral's nonchalant pose *g*

[beccastareyes]

Nikki is my favorite in the picture.

I think I must have reread that scene six times to try to get all the expressions right.

[unithien-rerith.livejournal.com]

You, mystery artist, are a very ambitious person---so many faces with so many different expressions! Great job :)

[beccastareyes]

Thanks

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Yays! I love Ekaterin's bolero jacket, and everyone's reaction shots, especially little Nikki in his "go, mama!" pose and Aral stifling a laugh... And her relatives look about ready to have a conniption for the sixth time that day. Great job, all around!

[beccastareyes]

Thanks. I spent a lot of time working on the expressions.

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

Ehehe I like everyone's different expressions!

[beccastareyes]

Thank you.

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

So many characters and I love how they're all individual in their actions and expressions!! It's fantastic!

[beccastareyes]

Thank you.

[somniloquacious.livejournal.com]

I love that you got so many people in the drawing! Excellent work!

[beccastareyes]

Thanks