A Cure Parts 1 and 2

[pennswoods]

All this Cumbercrushing has sort of gotten in the way of drawing, but it does mean I've been able to scour the web looking for excellent reference photos for a piece that's been nibbling at the edges of my conscience ever since I first started reading emmagrant01's A Cure for Boredom. Here's my progress so far along with a few dilemma's that I'm facing.



Part I This is from a scene in Chapter 1 that kicks off the whole story. Sherlock is sitting on the sofa in the dark with his feet tucked under him using John's laptop for nefarious purposes. Because there is a small pile of something on the floor (which I haven't drawn yet), I decided to eliminate the coffee table that is normally in front of the sofa.


Part II - Sherlock is described as sitting with his legs folded under him and the laptop balanced on one knee, so I've moved the laptop to the knee closest to John. However, I'm stuck for a good reference to depict someone sitting cross legged at this angle (which is driven by an awesome reference I found of John sitting on the sofa). So I'm torn about what to do here. Does anyone have a good reference of someone sitting cross-legged on a sofa at a similar angle? Or can I assume Sherlock repositioned himself once John sat next to him so that one or both legs is on the floor? Based on what comes later, it's possible that he did in fact move his legs at some point even though it's not explicitly stated. Moving the laptop also means I should probably move Sherlock's head since it's no longer looking in the right direction, but I'm planning to have Sherlock looking out of the corner of his eyes at John since he's not really watching the laptop anyway.

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Why don't you photograph your husband in whatever position you need as a reference? I've done that before now.

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

You are a genius. And he also happens to be awake right now. Normally when I draw, it's at night and he's either enjoying his down time in front of the tv or asleep. I'll see what I can get him to do.

[drinkingcocoa.livejournal.com]

I love what you've got so far already. I knew exactly what you were trying to convey and it looks just the way I've imagined it. Sherlock's furrowed brow! <3

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

:D

I've been preoccupied with finding good refs for this image in my head. I just want to SEE this moment. I'm thinking both legs on the sofa is better because that's what I have in my head.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me; I'll just be over here flailing. :-D

This is gorgeous already!

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

:D

How is it to see what images your words provoked in a reader's head and how these images do or don't map on to what you envisioned while writing?

I'm kind of curious to know whether you could see what color shirt John wearing and exactly which side of the sofa Sherlock was sitting on and whether the pile of something on the floor was to Sherlock's right or left? You don't need to say what you saw, but I'm dreadfully curious about what details were and were not already in your head.

[dragonsinger954.livejournal.com]

Absolutely love it!

and have a couple of possible skull sources at a flea market we went to here, have to get back to them in 2 wks.

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Oh you are so brilliant!

[dragonsinger954.livejournal.com]

If all works out, I'll be meeting a woman from Howe at the convenience store in town here to pick up first skull *smiles*

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Seriously? This is awesome!!!!

[dragonsinger954.livejournal.com]

Seriously! Meeting her around 2:15, photos later :)

And still searching so that more of us can have one too!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Actually, what you've got here (and in the next version posted) is remarkably close to what was in my head. The pose is precisely what I'd pictured, even down to the way Sherlock is glancing sideways and John is leaning in a bit. Someone else did fanart of the two of them wanking to porn and she had them on opposite sides of the sofa, which really surprised me. And then someone else commented, "I'd imagined their positions on the sofa reversed" and I though, yes, exactly. I don't know if I said that explicitly in the fic, but this is basically exactly what was in my head.

I'm not sure about colors, to be honest. :-P

[dixiebell12.livejournal.com]

*drools* That's going to be so awesome when you finish it!

I got the black paper for the Sherlock suite today *squees*

I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for, for a reference photo, but at least it's comic relief :)

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

♥

Dix, I love you for all the gifs that you shower me with. Look at the two of them giggling. Awe!

[irielle.livejournal.com]

Wow, you've really caught his hair and this shape of his face!

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Awe, thank you bb. Now I just need to see if I can keep this up on the body.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, you can draw, too?

o_O

AWESOME.

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Drawing is my first fannish activity. It's usually my first outlet when I get fannish (other than squee a lot).

[rotaryphones.livejournal.com]

Looks great so far! Whenever I need reference, I usually do one of two things. I either scour Getty Images (which has a really great specific search, so you could look for "one man sitting front view crossed legs") or I take a picture of myself with my laptop. My computer is full of photos of me doing weird things for reference, heh.

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

Ah, brilliant. I need to take advantage of Getty then. I just hang out on google images.