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

[ctrl-issue.livejournal.com]

This is just simply GORGEOUS! I'm not an artist, but I like how it appears soft in form but the action going on is hard and rough and you just made it beautiful. Also, I love the flowery curtains. You did an amazing job right there. And Arthur. Another amazing job. And that their totems appear behind and to the side of them, easily reachable, and almost as if they'd been used recently. And the map of the oceans above Australia. And that Arthur is sitting in Eames's lap.

So, in conclusion, everything here is really amazing and you did a great job and I'm totally showing other folks. Thank you for all your effort!!!!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Yay, someone noticed the map! I thought the house interior didn't really make where they were supposed to be that clear, so I thought: a map! A map is pretty unsubtle! :D I am so glad you like the soft feel - I set out intending to make it a bit grittier (because, well, Arthur's in need of medical attention), but somewhere along the way I tripped and landed face-first into something almost resembling fluff. Whoops.

Thank you so much for your lovely comment, I truly appreciated it. :)