Artwork for THE LONG GAME by Garonne

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Title: Artwork for THE LONG GAME by Garonne
Artist: loxleyprince
Author: garonne
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Warnings: None

Summary:Doyle seems to have betrayed CI5 and taken off to South America with his ill-gotten gains, and Jax finds himself partnered with an unhappy, grim-faced Bodie. He gradually starts to realise what Bodie and Doyle were to each other. That's when Doyle reappears, and suddenly Jax, Bodie and Doyle find themselves at the heart of a complicated plot that will test their loyalties to CI5 and to each other.

Notes: HUGE thanks to my wonderful writer, Garonne, for the opportunity to illustrate her equally-wonderful story. I've had so much fun working with you!
Huge thanks also to the BB mods for the fantastic job they've done getting us all organised for PROS BB 2015. You girls rock! :-)

Link to Art: Art Master Post
Link to Fic: Fic Master Post

Comments

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

Well done and nice work! :D

I like the way you put us in the scene. I can almost hear the conversation in the first two.

[allegra82.livejournal.com]

Love them - so athmospheric, full of tension and wonderfully done! Looking forward to the story!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not the gunshots in the last one though! :-)

I'm glad you like the artwork. When Garonne and I were discussing the styling for it, she said she really liked what I'd done for my 'Crosshairs' pic on AO3, so we agreed I'd do something similar for the artwork for her story. It was a great collaboration and I hope she posts her story soon so everyone can enjoy it!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like them! I do so love a bit of Bodie angst. Actually, a lot of Bodie angst, if I'm truthful... *g*
I'm looking forward to the story too! :-)

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Massive congrats on posting and the art work is lovely. Wonderfully put together and really atmospheric. ♥

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Thank you! There are a lot of layers in each picture but I'm very pleased with how they came out. I had a lot of fun working with Garonne! I can't wait for her to post her story so other people can enjoy it as much as I did. :-)

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

Wanted to say here as well what FANTASTIC illustrations these are. So dramatic, and their composition is flawless. :))

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

It's really sweet of you to say that! Thank you, dear. :-)

Paintshop Pro has a really powerful layers capability and I used that A LOT to make the composition of each manip just how I wanted it. i LOVE PSP! :-) Garonne has posted her story online now, so if you want to see where the pictures fit in, do please read it!

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

The art is fantastic! Very dramatic with the blue and the layers - and all those bullet holes in the last one. :-)
I am now so curious what the story is like.
Thank you so much for your hard work!

Just a question. I just wanted to integrate it into the story, but I can't open the files though they are jpg. Am I doing something wrong???

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I'm not sure what you're doing, so I'm not entirely sure I can answer your question. You shouldn't need to open the files in order to embed them in (for example) a Word document, you should just need to be able to access them. The original images are actually posted on photobucket at the following URIs:-

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k544/loxleyprince/1DoyleBodieFlatTitle2Black_zpsqhza0vli.jpg
http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k544/loxleyprince/2BodieCowleyJLight_zps9xmjabu5.jpg
http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k544/loxleyprince/3JaxBodieFlatGrainJ_zpstc6mskmk.jpg
http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k544/loxleyprince/4Aiming3J_zps21c54a8c.jpg
http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k544/loxleyprince/ConfrontationJ_zpscgiq1i9t.jpg

Perhaps you can embed the images more easily by referencing them there? Do please let me know how you get on. If all else fails, if you PM me an email address, I'll send you the actual .jpg files which you can download to your pc and play with them from there. :-)

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

I just clicked onto the picture with the right mouse button and there I did chose 'save as picture'. And I found it in my download folder as an jpg but couldn't open it.

But now it works perfectly with your links, thank you very much! :-)

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome!

Garonne has posted her story now, so if you want to know where all those bullet holes come from, do have a read! :-)

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Will do!

But I wanted it to read with your beautiful pictures! And I think I found the right places where they belong. :-)

Btw. I use PSP (X6) as well. But mostly the filters and the 'image artefact remover' tool. I still prefer the very old Picture Publisher. But from your results, PSP looks like a very usefull programme! :-)

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I love your icon!

I have PSP X5 and I use the Layers functionality a lot to blend layers in my working .pspimage file. Only when I'm happy with the end result do I actually make a .jpg file from it (and even then I always keep the .pspimage one, just in case I want to play with it again in the future :-) There are some really good vids on youtube.com for PSP and that's where I learnt how to use layers. They're such a powerful manip-ing facility and they've totally transformed how I make my manips. Love PSP layers!

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Ooooh yeah! I really wish you know, that people would read the story before looking at the artwork. (So far I have looked at lots of artwork and only read one story). My excuse is that I'm STILL editing and once I've posted will be reading like a maniac. However, I can't but resist looking at the artwork, and this is lovely, lovely layerey artwork. Well done that artiste.

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words about the piccies!

I think the thing is, it takes only a little time to look at the artwork, and a lot more time to read the stories, and it would take an AWFUL lot of self-control (which I know I certainly don't have!) to not look at the art until after the story had been read. So far, I've looked at the artwork before I've read any of the stories, so I'm as guilty as the rest :-) and completely unrepentant, because who COULD resist a new vid or piccie of Bodie and Doyle? (Not me, clearly!)

Good luck with the editing!!! You're in the home stretch now and the finish line is in sight! Just a little more effort and you'll be done and posting and collecting all the plaudits!!! Run, boothros! RUN!!!! :-)

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's actually one of the first wallpapers I've made for Pros(first post in my journal).

Good tip with the youtube vids!
I really don't know how long my old programme will work with new operating systems - so I have to work with PSP sooner or later.

[boothros.livejournal.com]

'who COULD resist a new vid or piccie of Bodie and Doyle?'
-Nah, couldn't do it. You couldnt even PAY me to do it.
'Just a little more effort and you'll be done and posting and collecting all the plaudits!!!'
-Now I REALLY don't know about that one, I was picturing more getting me coat and sloping off...
'Run, boothros! RUN!!!!'
-Believe you me after posting day, I will be, very quickly indeed...

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

The BB small print prohibits sloping off, so you're stuck here with the rest of us for the foreseeable, I'm afraid, and certainly until the end of the BB, else you'll incur the wrath of the CI5 stoats (which is a terrible thing to behold, apparently.) It's not all bad though. Margaritas will be served shortly, so just make yourself at home.

No! no! no! You're running *to* the Finish Line - not *away as fast as you can once your story has been posted.* Running away after posting is *expressly* prohibited in the BB small print and will likely result in the CI5 stoats chasing after you and hauling you back. Subtle they are not, and they do love a challenge, so don't you be thinking you can outpace them either. Well, not unless you have a racehorse stashed somewhere close... :-)

[boothros.livejournal.com]

'you'll incur the wrath of the CI5 stoats (which is a terrible thing to behold' - :(

'Margaritas will be served shortly, so just make yourself at home' - :)

'You're running *to* the Finish Line - not *away as fast as you can once your story has been posted' - Ahh, you saw through my cunning plan.

'Well, not unless you have a racehorse stashed somewhere close...' I can get a brown one, but not a white one. I can only imagine a white one capable of out running stoat wrath.

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

It's really good!

I learnt most of what I know about PSP from youtube videos. The rest came with playing with the software. You're going to love PSP when you get to know it a bit better. :-)

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it would have to be a white one to outrun the CI5 stoats. Best you commandeer a comfy chair and settle yourself in. I'll make your margarita a double. :-)

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I love the feel the blue tint gave everything. . .cool!!!!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm terrible at making my pictures have a consistent look-and-feel, so I used the monochrome tint to help unify the pieces, so they looked like they belonged together for the story.

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Absolutely stunning artwork - I knew it would be, the moment I saw your nym come up! - and a beautiful match for the story. Thank you so much for sharing these, they're just gorgeous and captivating and beautifully done - I love them! Now I just have to try and get them into the story on my kindle .... *g*

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your generous comments!!! I'm so glad you like the pictures! I had a ton of fun making them, even if I did go through about 6 different Doyles for the Doyle-Spencer-Bodie manip. Garonne was WONDERFULLY patient with me as I sent her version after version of the same manip with a different Doyle every time, and the whole collaboration thing was lovely. :-)

Good luck embedding the images into the story on your kindle. I have absolutely no idea if that is possible. *g*

[giseerouchon.livejournal.com]

Left a comment on AO3, but love these- very moody and really look like 'proper' illustrations to a period story..;-) Can see them in an annual or something.. Nice work!!

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Thank you for taking the time to comment here as well as on AO3! I'm glad you like the illustrations. They're very different to the ones I did for my other BB writer, and it was fun to play with the different styles. Taking part in the 2015 Pros BB has been WONDERFUL! :-)