Art: Safe House [Inception]

[motetus]

A while ago I volunteered to create art as a prize for an inceptiversary scavenger hunt winner, and luckily I ended up with an absolutely lovely person whose request was Eames patching Arthur up after a job gone wrong, and who didn't mind when my response was "sure, shirtless Arthur, I can do that, but more importantly, how do you feel about a billion insignificant background details that will take me months and months, YEAH, BACKGROUND DETAILS"

At first I was going to go along with the obvious setting of a hotel room, but then I came across these family holiday photos from about twenty years ago which had this charming old Malay kampung house with blue painted wood panels and gorgeous shuttered windows with intricate green grilles, and suddenly I thought a shabby little safe house in south-east Asia would be a much more interesting location. So sorry I'm using your photography to help me draw slash, dad.

Many thanks to Ms Soot for being so patient and such a pleasure to create art for, and also for being so open to all my ideas. Thanks also to the ever-patient bauble, whose critical eye saved this from being an anatomical clusterfuck!

Comments

[arvok.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna repeat what other people already said - Arthur's face really is the best. And the whole scene has something soft to it, like it really is safe and even kinda cosy, now that they are out of the danger's way.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Haha, I guess my many hours of leering at diligently studying JGL's adorable little face have paid off! And ooh, I am glad you got a little bit of a safe and cosy feeling out of it - I turned into a right sap halfway through drawing this and decided it needed less blood and more fluff. Thank you for your comment!