Something for Auburn and Mona's "Ardhanarishvara"

[anna_luna]

For those of you who haven't read "Ardhanarishvara", it is a wonderful fanfic by auburnnothenna and monanotlisa, where an advanced alien civilization, in order to further enlighten their new business partners, had several members of Sheppard's team genderswitched.

Now this inspired a whole lot of fanart by me and other assorted people.

And now, since Mona's in the hospital and I'd like to make her feel a tiny bit better (if you want to make something for her, there is a community called ficformona), I made these:

Preview:



ETA: I have added a second version of the manip and the graphic after I followed some of icarusancalion's suggestions.



Original version:



New version:



Just the Manip.

I figured, maybe I was going about this business of genderswitching the wrong way: Instead of trying to make John into a woman, maybe I should be trying to make a woman into John. So I used a picture from 'Resident Evil II' and proceeded to give her some of John's features. I felt like a bit of a Frankenstein, adding the nose and the eyes, the shape of the face, the ear and of course, the hair.







This is from the bar scene in Part Eleven.

Comments

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

the manip is very sophisticated and cool-looking. i like the dna strands and the "ghost" image of John's male self. very nice. I also like your drawing very much. Girl!Shep still looks like Shep, and a girl. I adore Girl!Ronon, she looks both very cute & also deadly. :-)

wags, sw

[anna_luna]

:) Thanks a lot! I'm both the manipping and the graphicking afterward turned out ok. I started out with male and female John and then started adding stuff and masks.

I'm glad you think my drawing of girl!Shep makes her justice, she's so much fun to draw and so was Ronon, who still has like 20 blades in her hair.