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

[fatuorum.livejournal.com]

You used Valentine! Very nice choice (okay, now I want a full body shot, guns, boots and all ;)) and she looks great. Heck, the whole piece looks good. I'm hard pressed to see where changes start, but she still looks different enough to work. Was it easier to work backwards from a female's face?

[anna_luna]

I think in this case it was easier to work backwards because she looks a *lot* like Joe Flannigan. I was watching Resident Evil II and I was struck by the resemblance (or maybe not resemblance but rather "That's what female!John would look like"). Both the nose and mouth are similar enough that when you manip, Joe's don't look unnatural. Also I think that starting out with a woman, you minimize the risk of ending up with boywhore!John (as per my previous experience). The skin tone and the shape of the face were trickier, because she has these *very* high cheekbones that Joe doesn't, but I thinks it's easier to do than reshaping Joe's jawline... am I making sense?
Bottom line: I think it is easier this way if you start out with a woman that looks like your man.
We should continue to manip until we reach a definite result ;)

[anna_luna]

Also, thanks a lot for saying my weird graphic looks good, I'm glad you liked it.