Derek Custer - Thank goodness you've come!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone!

I've been working on some illustrations for roadstergal's Stroke Me A Zipper. If you haven't read it, go do so - it's hillarious and smoking hot all at the same time! Anyway, while I love playing around with image editing programs (mostly Photoshop, but now I'm trying The Gimp on for size), I'm quite lazy, and terribly impatient. This leads to a tendency to go "naaaaah's goodenough" when the end result clearly isn't.

I am trying to do this right though, and I'll keep working on them for a bit. But being impatient, I thought I'd post this sample image, to give you an idea of what Derek might look like.





And can I just say that right now I hate the Ace-wig with a vengeance? *tries to hammer it onto Chris's head for current WIP* Thank you. :p

Comments

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

With - with shiny red Ace-suit!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

It's wrong that I googled "vermillion" to try to get the exact shade, right? *not obsessive*

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Nope. Derek Custer deserves perfection. ;)

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

You are the Photomanipmeister.

*runs back to work on talk*

[eviltigerlily.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, icons. I love the last two.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks - but it's Kat who does the manips so well! I can't to save my life.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

And yet, they won't let me edit pictures at work! Maybe they've seen these. :p

Oohh... Icons! :D
I was just thinking last night how it would be so much fun to have icons of these. You know, we work well together. We should, like, collaborate on stuff, or something. ;)

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and snagging #3 - it's like an origin-story in a sentence!

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh, origin-story!

[eviltigerlily.livejournal.com]

Whee! Great one.

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

It's Sebastian Doyle! That would be the look for Derek, I thought Craig looked great with that wig, better than Chris with the Ace wig - though I have to agree the first (missing) Ace wig was quite good. The one in SMAC was awful.
I think this looks great as a sample image - keep working!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I will. I can't seem to stop. ;)

Yeah, roadstergal imagined him with Sebastian's hair, and I agree with you - I've always liked it on him. Plus, I have a thing for guys with long hair. I think one of my strongest reactions to this episode when I saw it the first time was "OMG LONG HAIRED LISTER!"

I don't mind the wig in SMAC so much, but the one in Emohawk looks like something Lister knitted.

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

Now what about using The Kiss with long hair? Or you already thought of that?

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Derek/Ace lipsuck smooch!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

You know, I wasn't going to do that... But now I can't not. Guuuuuuuhhhh...