Third Post - Manip of Chris McGrath artwork.

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Title: None
Rating: G. Completely worksafe.
Medium: Fan art; manip
Base: From artwork by Chris McGrath. I love his (her?) book covers!
Other pairings: None
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Ah! I didn't recognize the name Chris McGrath, but I love the Dresden Files! Neat!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I love the Dresden covers and was happy to find a site with a lot of the artist's work where I recognized cover art I've admired on several other books as well. A very talented person.

Glad you like this one! :-)

[kalishaka.livejournal.com]

*swoons* The Dresden cover art...and I might have a secret James as Harry fetish. Love this!!!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I might have a secret James as Harry fetish

:-) Don't we all? *sigh*

So glad you like, and thank you!

[athenamuze.livejournal.com]

"I might have a secret James as Harry fetish"

Amen to that! Nice work :)

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big Dresden File fan, but this art work is just great! Very dark and mysterious. Thanks for sharing

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big Dresden File fan

Then it can just be Buffy and Spike. With, you know, a hat and a stick! :-)

Glad you like this one, too - thank you!

[writero.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice manip. And that is a cover from the Dresden Files isn't it? The hat and the staff are distinctive. :)

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yes, it's from the Dresden Files. The artist has done some wonderful work, and it was fun to try to manip it.

[penname-me.livejournal.com]

The artwork is good, but that phallic looking staff is what drew my eye:P

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Glad it caught your eye - thanks!

[jerusha]

Oh, very cool!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Glad you like - thank you!

[manoah.livejournal.com]

Very dark, mysterious and other-worldly. Spike looks determined, Buffy somewhat tragic. Too bad I can't write...this would make a great jumping off point for a fic! (hinthint to all you writers!)

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

The Spike base is a cover for one of the Dresden Files books and I agree, the artist did a great job of suggesting a story with his (her?) art.

I'm glad you like what I did with it - thank you!

[dark-amia.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Very unusual and sublime.

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[kathyh]

I love the mysterious look of this one. Wonderfully atmospheric.

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I'm giving all credit for the wonderful atmosphere to the original artist, who I think did a great job at suggesting a story with his work. I'm glad you like it!

[framedinlove.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is just - wow! I can't even begin to tell you how much I love it when you manip fantasy art. I'm a big fan of both your manips and fantasy art, so color me utterly delighted once again. :)

I love the Dresden Files, but I've never seen that cover before. The manip is really beautiful not to mention mind-tingling. You've done fantastic job with the blending - it's simply flawless and so is the rest of the manip, too. Fantabulous work!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I love fantasy art, too, and spend a lot of time looking at and collecting it. It's such a challenge to manip it and so satisfying when it works.

The main pic - Spike and the background - are from a Dresden cover. The girl is from another one of the artist's book covers. She's holding a cross bow - which would have been perfect to leave in, but I liked the fog too much, so I sacrified it.

I was happier with an earlier version I had done. But after letting it sit for a couple of days, I decided Buffy's head looked a tad too big and I redid. Unfortunately, I didn't feel like I got quite the match to the body skin that I had in the first one. I was kind of bummed, but didn't have more time to mess with it.

This was, by far, the most complicated of the things I posted today and I'm glad you think it works. Thank you!

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Swirls and mystery.

Terrific work.

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I did add a bit of fog, but the base artist did a wonderful job conveying mystery, fantasy and an intriguing story. All I did was add a girl and manip the faces... :-)

Glad you like!

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Oooooo! Moody!

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

I love swirly mist and fog. It always seems to mysterious and romantic to me. I really like this cover artist's work, so it was fun to manip.

[oracleholly.livejournal.com]

Spike as Dresden! (as we all feel James should have been Harry to begin with anyway...perhaps he could be Thomas!)

[mary5958.livejournal.com]

His reading of some of the titles did put it into our heads, didn't it? :-)