The Astonishing Persistence of Memory

[renisanz]

I'm sure some of y'all have heard about sgabigbang. It was a huge thing with lots of novel length fic centered around our favorite SGA characters. My favorite writer, tielan, wrote an amazing John/Teyla story for it. It's meant to have three parts when complete (insane).

Anyway, I read the story, loved it. She asked me to create a banner for the "bonus features" event going on. It was quite last minute, and she's like 15 hrs ahead of me as far as time zones. However, I like her fic a whole heck of a lot, so I told her I'd see if I could come up with something.

At work that day, it was pitifully slow, so I decided to see if I could sketch something out. I decided to use a simplified version of the idea I had for an illustration I planned on doing for the story. I drew it on relatively large Post-It note, took it home, scanned it, and then added text and texture (from jeyla4ever ) in Photoshop CS2. Typestyles are Houston Pen (script) and Adobe Garamond Pro.

The point is that y'all should go check out this story. The Q&A is rather interesting, too. I like reading and writing about the writing process.

Comments

[azure-horizon.livejournal.com]

I saw this at the top of her Q&A - I love it :D I love the profile of John in the 'native' get up - it's exactly as I imagined. Well done love.

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I just went off what we'd seen of Sheppard in Epiphany. He is rather dashing with the beard, no?