Can you taste the summer?

[aroihkin]

"Secret Santa: Border-Hopping" for EccentricSage on BSN!
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1000 x 1000, 24 hours in MS Paint.

Warning: Involves slash. And Alistair. If you don't like that, I don't care... just don't bother to look. :D

Call it NSFW just to be sure, but it's no worse than the art in my icon.

Comments

[scarylady]

Oh! My favourite pairing in the whole world ever. I may have to pretend it's my pressie, instead.

Edit: and you captured Alistair brilliantly. His face and hair is spot on.

[aroihkin]

*g* Thanks! I'll draw you D/s Zev/Al someday, I'm just completely hammered for time/creativity right now. Also, I gotta think of something to make you write in exchange or something. ;)

Depending on what I end up getting in this secret santa exchange, since I threw a good idea out there. If it doesn't get done, I'm throwing it at you instead. *g* If it does I'll think of something else. Mwahaha.

Re edit: I use screencaps and the default morphs themselves as references, so I have good stuff to help me with that. :D

[kismet76]

You should really post it on swooping is bad, lol!

I'd love to read the comments! XD

[aroihkin]

Nah, I'm not a member. They already chased me off with torches and pitchforks back in april. :P

[scarylady]

All the slash lovers came here. I offered myself up on the altar of Secret Swooper and, when I said I can write slash if anyone wants it, they looked around and went 'er, where did all the slash people go?'

[prisoner_24601]

Eh, I don't think it would particularly shock the swoopers, if that's what you're getting at. There are people who post slash there on occasion. It's a damned large community, and it would surprise me if there weren't some who would enjoy the pic. And if they didn't, their most likely reaction would be to ignore it politely. I doubt that slash would get their knickers in a twist.

To the OP - nice work. I totally buy that Alistair is about 3 beers from attempting something exactly like this in the game (despite the fact that you can't romance him as a dude - which makes no sense to me). If anyone could convince him to hop borders, it would be Zevran.

[klarabella]

Uuuh, one of my favourite pairings. *melts*

I love your art.

[aroihkin]

Thanks! :D

[elysium_fic]

Oooh, that's lovely.

I'm SO INTO this pairing right now. Blame scarylady and darkrose.

[scarylady]

*soaks up the blame happily*

[aroihkin]

Hahahaha...

I'm currently being talked into illustrating a scene from "Power Games". Zevran/Alistair/Tannusen.

So between that and other things there'll be more along these lines, I'm sure. :3

[darkrose]

*does the "It's My Fault" dance*

[lemontwisted]

Your work never ceases to amaze me. This is absolutely gorgeous.

(And hooooot...)

[aroihkin]

:D!

Glad to hear it~

(Hot is what I was aiming for! :D)

[valiasedai]

*happy sigh* I love your stuff. This is wonderful!

[aroihkin]

*glees* Thank you! :D

[andorin]

That is one amazingly hot piece of art! I can't decide if I want to join in or just keep my distance and watch them at it.

[aroihkin]

Woo! Thanks! :D

And I know the feeling. Someone on BSN asked me where Tannusen is and I couldn't decide if he would be below the frame or if he would be holding the camera and nosebleeding quietly. XD

[taisin.livejournal.com]

Oh, perfect!!! *hurries to fav*
My favorite pairing! (and I'm not even a slash lover, like - at all. DAO seems to be an exception to my "don't like slash" rule...)

[andorin]

So it's not only me? At least I wasn't at all into slash until I started to lurk in DA communities. Now I can't get enough of M/M.

I totally blame aroihkin and scarylady.

[aroihkin]

:D!

[darkrose]

So not only do you draw my current OTP, but the title gives me a happy. :)

[aroihkin]

Duran Duran? They're so awesome. :D

[darkrose]

Can I just say, also, too, that the fact that you do this in MS Paint with a mouse is like, wow.

I can barely do stick figures in Paint. Or anything else, including crayon.

[elysium_fic]

There's a decent chance any effort on my part to create something visually artistic would wind up with a body count attached.

Best not to risk it.

[sephiaz]

Holy Mother of...

Iloveyou.

Since I saw this late in the day, this has all been said already (multiple times, no less) but dammit I'm re-saying it anyway.

1. I can't even wrap my brain around how you manage to create such incredibly detailed, gorgeous art in Paint.

2. Power Games illustration? Please add me to the list of "very much wants". Tannu = possibly my favorite OC ever.

3. I am another formerly het-only reader, happily convinced of the hotness of m/m by you, Scarylady, and the twin powerhouses of S&S and Secret Service (that is a LOT of S's). Look at you two, expanding the smut-reading horizons of DAO fans far and wide!

[aroihkin]

<33333

It's always nice to hear it agaaaaain. <3

I started to reply to each point individually but each one makes me go d'aww harder. So have an incoherent flail and a d'awwww. :D