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Eldest of the Gods

Cover art for [personal profile] la_petite_singe's awesome Erik/Charles Summer Fic Exchange story, The Eldest of the Gods. It's a 1920s Eton College AU; the guys are 18-ish (and Erik is ginger!) I showed the sketch to my girlfriend who doesn't know XMFC and she said, "It looks like Brideshead Revisted." I was like, "EXACTLY." I hope that comes across for you, too! India ink on bristol.

ETA: If my webhost is being wonky, you can view this at my tumblr.

[xpost: Erik/Charles]
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Inspired by Yolsaffbridge's comment that I should keep practicing drawing Professor X until he is Patrick Stewart.

More fun with mini-portraits )
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I'm still drawing XMFC art because my goal is to burn myself out BEFORE I get my summer fic illustration assignments. And because my other option is packing my apartment. Last time I had to pack my apartment, this happened.

Yesterday was fun-filled and whimsical; today is dark and creepy. NSFW, but not much more so than is obvious from the thumbnail.

Everybody wants to fuck Charles

The toughest part about this was trying to get the body positions anywhere near plausible, since I don't exactly have relevant references. I even tried taking pictures of myself doing the positions (NOT SHOWN), but as I look nothing like the guys and it's more about the interaction than the individual poses, it didn't really help. I need a couple of semi-slender, semi-muscular guys who are willing to pose together in any homoerotic position I wish. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK.
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Prompt from [personal profile] helens78: "Erik surprised by something Charles is thinking at him! :D? :D?"

Somehow that turned into this.

Mental Exercise

Lessons learned: I need to learn how to do backgrounds. Also, for best results, if a project appears to be 80% done, and I'm tired and need to go to bed, I should wash my brushes and go to bed, instead of powering through the last 20%.

Good night everybody!
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Practice drawing the XMFC guys. Partly because I'm gearing up to do illustrations for the summer fic challenge, partly because I could not bring myself to do anything from my list of things to do today.

little drawings )

POLL! Because I (I think?) have never done one before.
Poll #7683 What next?
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What next?

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Keep practicing
0 (0.0%)

Color these bad boys
2 (100.0%)

Draw them in a compromising position which I will describe in comments
1 (50.0%)

Go back to drawing characters from the fandom *I* am interested in
0 (0.0%)

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I drew an illustration for my own fic -- further experimentation with colored ink. And new faces!

Erik and Charles picnic [click for story/fullsize]
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From the stunned silence of my flist I have to conclude I'm the only person I know who's into XMFC right now, but as much for my reference as yours, there's an Erik/Charles summer fic exchange starting soon and art is "if we have enough interest," so if you want to draw McAvoy's silly face as I do, express interest!
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I may or may not shut up about XMFC after this, but:

Look at loobeeinthesky's awesome art!! Charles and adorable Charles/Erik. This is exactly the cartoony-but-realistic, comic-book-y, whimsical-but-still-sexy style and skill I most enjoy (and wish I had). Her coloring is out of this world, too. Just all around badass.
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Courtesy Kuwdora via Seperis, it turns out the Erik/Charles recs are here. :D

There's also the Erik_Charles LJ community to which I have now crossposted.

And astolat has started writing Thor.

All is well in the world.

In other news, I have never regretted not knowing how to ride a bike more.
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Aaaaand here it is. Not a crossover; I just named it after an unrelated fandom because I am a jerk like that.

Title: Inception
Fandom, Pairing: X-Men: First Class, Charles/Erik
Word Count, Rating: ~2200, R-ish?
Notes: Thanks to Crouton Shield and Sasha Feather for beta! The former should also be thanked for going with me to see the movie.
Summary:

“You’re trying to plant happy memories on me.”

Charles shakes his head. “I told you, I’m not doing anything to your head.”

“No, you’re doing it the old-fashioned way.”

Charles lowers his eyes to his Chardonnay. Has he been that obvious?


read it at ao3!
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Nobody gave me any Charles/Erik recs so I wrote one real quick. Can anyone beta? It's about 2,000 words, about as light and happy as you can get!

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