Fanart: Rodney's Life

[anna_luna]

I finally finished my Valentine's Day Trade for fleurrochard. She traded me a wonderful song and I wanted to make something a bit different for her... And then this idea took over my brain and I've been working on it for weeks.

fleurrochard said she wanted "something about Rodney and music"... so I present to you: Rodney's Life:



Medium: Cut paper (inspired by Robert Ryan and my 6th grade art teacher who we used to do stuff like this with)











The text reads:

"When I was young, I fell in love with music,
but then I was told that music did not love me back,
so I looked for something prettier than music, and found the stars,
and in their orbits and colors and equations, I found music again."

This was a difficult project, but I love the result, the papercuts look awesome on many different backgrounds, but I finally decided to scan them over the stripped paper... I might experiment with them some more later.

Also, I'm sorry for the yellow stripe on the left.,.. my scanner is broken and just puts it there...

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kiden/]

Oh my. Not only is this beautiful, but kind of incredibly moving. You win the day. ♥

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

beautiful!

[rhianne.livejournal.com]

That's lovely! What a wonderfully original idea! It's not often you see something different made for fandom, and you realised it really well :-) Thank you for sharing!!

[aurora]

WOW.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

I just continue to be astounded by your creativity, skill, and the huge HEART in this. Oh, RODNEY!

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[beeej.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie, this is frakking amazing! Bravo!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is just beautiful.

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

Those are just awesome papercuts! Great words to go with too.

[nel-ani.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL!

*has no better feedback, because it's SO COOL*

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

Oh! Those are astonishingly gorgeous. I *love* the way you're using the papercut technique and your designs are really fantastic. I particularly love the telescope one, and the way Rodney's hair changes to show the passage of time. ♥

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that is so, so cool. i love the text and the cutouts and i think the words fit rodney really well.

[pentapus.livejournal.com]

LOVE this. It's works so well with your style, and a great simple story to tell in just four panels. Love the visual parallels between your portrayal astrophysics and music. And I love the striped background. Such a neat idea!

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

this is so. completely. awesome. *gapes and gapes*
gorgeous! amazing! wow!

[zillah975]

This is really, really beautiful.

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Wow! This is freaking amazing. I love the swoops & swirls (especially the halos around the stars in the last panel), and the contrast with the flat horizontal lines of the "music did not love me back" panel.

Aside from being visually stunning, your choice of text is wonderfully evocative.

[wagacca.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love this! Very nice.

[barely-bean.livejournal.com]

oh that's lovely

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's just amazingly cool!!

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Very very nice, I love the idea and the execution. What did you use for cutting the paper? Just an exacto knife? It's wonderfully done.

[sheepishlynew.livejournal.com]

stunning!

[denynothing1.livejournal.com]

Oh! This is a wonderful piece. The story and art work together beautifully, and I love the swooping stars and orbits that refer back to the musical notation. Wonderful!

[delurker.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, this is amazing!

[deaka.livejournal.com]

Aw, lovely! Beautiful work. :D

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's so beautiful!