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

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, Anna Luna, how are you so awesome??

*SQUEE*

Seriously, that's just fantastic -- the first one does look amazingly natural; I read your explanations to Fatuorum and kept nodding: Very good idea, and a very cool result!

And aww, the second one, the drawing! Rodney coming to help a bewildered Sheppard, who by the way looks really lovely -- female and pretty and curvy in the right places despite the fact all the bits that would show gender are obscured. Then, RONON DISTRACTING THE GUY! I love how you gave Ronon the kind of forward grace that makes it clear she is just telling him she'll kill him if he does as much as move. *g*

Thank you so very much. I feel myself healing much faster already! (Seriously, I'm much better already, and will hopefully continue to get real well real soon.)

[anna_luna]

I'm so glad you liked them! And I'm glad you think girl!John looks natural, I'm sort of disproportionally proud of it.

I also love drawing in this universe, actually my first ever drawn Ronon was a female!Ronon for you (which unfortunately I lost) closely followed by my second Ronon (male and lost with the first Ronon), so this is Ronon Nr. 3. The weird mark on his hip is *supposed* to be a tattoo, but it is so small it looks like a blotch. I figured that Ronon would look casual while delivering death threats and *leaning* on the guy, I'm glad you think it fits with the scene.

John and Rodney are always a joy to draw, and female!John especially, I'm kind of in love with her athletic female curves.

I'm also very glad you're feeling better! I don't know you, but your fic gave me many hours of happy reading and subsequent drawing, so it's the least I could do. If time permits, I'll draw you something for the next chapter as part of the "Get Well Soon"-package.