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For the Paintedspires Stargate:Atlantis art challenge.My Prompt was: Noir AU - The Team as a noir detective story: Teyla in Burberry and fedora, John as homme fatale, Rodney as Detective Teyla's sidekick, Ronon as the innocent suspect. Teyla, John, Rodney, Ronon. Add others as needed: (I added Defence Attorney Elizabeth to the roster)
Since the prompt subverted the traditional Detective Noir sexual roles, I decided to continue the theme into the realm of Noir style book covers. Yes, there are deliberate hints of gay subtext in several of these. What is the point of subverting the genre if you can't play around with it some?
I will post the banner next - it is just the character portraits (and therefore entirely subtext free
)The original images are larger, and I did indeed do the other 2 combinations, but I wanted to keep the size of this combined image manageable.
Some of the book titles and taglines are from old pulp detective novels, and some have been made up to match the style. I love the language. Thanks to ~talietha for the suggestions.
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Comments: 41
I think I've found a new fav corner of da... your sga art is stunning!
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Thank you
(and thanks for the Watch, too!)
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Awesome!! The art is fantastic but the titles and subtitles are hilarious!! Love it!
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I really enjoyed choosing the Titles and subtitles for these
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So awesome! Love the titles and subtitles and of course the fantastic. These stories need writing, seriously
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These. ALL of these.
one million times.
I seriously snorted so hard I couldn't breathe for a second when I read "Sultry Warrior" and "Homme Fatale" sublines.
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Glad you like them. I had lots of fun looking at pulp detective book covers and then making these up
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Lol at the titles. Nicely done.
Art looks great and I believe I'd be needing a bigger bookshelf if these books existed.
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Thanks! I had so much fun with the titles
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Awesome!!
All those little details and this great colo!!!
Words are missing to me...
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Thanks! I got a bit carried away with this project, but I was having too much fun thinking up titles for the books
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My fav whould have to be knave of hearts because well Elizabeth and John yeah, Ronan and Teylah secound and well Keller and rodney third
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Thank you - It was fun playing around with the various combinations and pairings
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I would so buy those books great artistry
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Really cool...but why can't I add it to my collection?
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(but thank you for liking it, anyway)
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I love how you had multi-ships. The titles are awesome.
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Hey, thanks! I was having too much fun making up the titles, and the covers that I just kept going
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Thank you for the 
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Amazing! The posters have such a lovely coloring and I really like that idea, keep that ^^
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I got a bit carried away, but I was having too much fun finding the titles
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That's just...wow! That's fricken amazing! I mean if you were allowed to sell this- I'd SO buy a print! Awesome!
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Ooops - that little wink was meant to be a smile! (my fingers fumbled)
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lol It's all good. I'm royalty in the world of fumbles and typos- welcome to the kingdon lol. 
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Thank you! I'm flattered
And thanks so much for the faves and the Watch!
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No prob! You're amazing!
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Amazing as always ... you just blow my socks off LOL
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Thanks! I own a few pulp detective novels so I immediately thought of cover art when I saw the prompt. Of course I thought I'd just do 2 covers ...
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Brilliant 
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The prompt was inspiring
Thank you for the watch - I appreciate it!
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I still think you need Police Officer Carson, from Scotland Yard or something, ahahahahaha. Still, it's such a clever idea and so well executed. I bet so much that someone is going to write fanfic with these titles/prompts.
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Don't think I didn't consider adding Carson - but it was already completely OTT as it was!
Thank you, I thought of book covers when I saw the prompt - though originally I was intending only do 2 or 3
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Poor, poor Carson. Ahahahahaha.
And it's very clever use of the prompt. I wish Blake's 7 fandom was currently so creative. Sigh.
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God! I just LOVE your art! I wish I could actually make a realistic original painting with these characters (or any other for that matter) These are always so amazing, and you always capture their personalities perfectly! An absolutely AMAZING job!
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Thank you! I love Realism (though sometime I'd like to try some other styles, just to see). I'm lucky to be able to capture expressions as well as likenesses, but even so I had to scrap several versions of John for this project, which were crappy likenesses or completely without expression - or both
*blows raspberries back at Daniel* (fun icon!)
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You're very welcome! I love realism, too, but have a very hard time even getting something vaguely real 
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