221b_recs | Entries tagged with artwork

Title: Newspapers...Fairytales
Artist: merilwenart on tumblr
Pairing: John Watson, gen portrait
Rating: none given, I would say G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: none given

Reccer's comments: I thought this was a lovely portrait of John. To me it seems similar to the Impressionist style, with broad brush strokes, blurred patterns, and beautiful light. It brightened my day to see it!

rachelindeed

Title: A Sketch of Young Mycroft
Artist: the-painter-and-the-poet (on tumblr)
Pairing: none
Rating: not rated, I would say G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A sketch of young Mycroft Holmes- pencil with digital tint.

Reccer's comments: This lovely sketch was just posted today, and wow, it's gorgeous. It presents us with an unusually rumpled Mycroft, perhaps at the end of a late night in his first year at university? I love the wrinkles of his cardigan, the tails of his untucked shirt, the delightfully narrow and angular tilt of his shoulders, his lowered eyes, and a haircut reminiscent of James Dean. Quietly attractive, self-contained, and full of character -- this is a beautiful portrait of the young man Mycroft might have been.

vulgarweed

Title: untitled
Artist:: amysherrierart on Tumblr
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: T? SFW but steamy
Verse: Granada

Author's summary: I’ve been re-watching “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (aka the Granada Series) and I just have to draw these beautiful boys. <3

Reccer's comments: A kiss is just a kiss? This one is not. This one is absolutely searing. Just a wild kiss up against a wall, with beautiful position and coloring. There is a beautiful sense of desire unleashed and restraint breaking.

untitled lovely kiss by amy sherrier

And that's the last of my recs for June! Thanks to everyone for your patience. This spring has been a very trying time for me, but I did manage to rally at the end. I hope you enjoy all these artists' beautiful works, and make sure to let them know too.

vulgarweed

Title: Rosie is Playing with Mrs Hudson Now (or is that the summary?)
Artist: sh2jw on Tumblr
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: E/NC-17/Explicit
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: Neither Mrs Hudson nor Rosie are in this picture, we're only reassured that the baby is with a competent sitter. :) Surrounded by toys and diapers and the trappings of parenthood that have transformed 221B, Sherlock and John take a probably rare - and therefore extra urgent - bout of personal quality time with each other: still mostly clothed, on the chair, desperate. It’s super hot and intense, and given so much warmth and depth by the detailed surroundings.

Rosie is Playing With Mrs Hudson Now (and Sherlock and John playing with each other)

vulgarweed

Title: The East Wind
Artist: anekoartsins on Tumblr
Pairing: Gen, Eurus Holmes
Rating: G
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: Stunning fairy-tale-style image of Eurus Holmes - with violin, blackbird, stormy sky and sea and wild hair. She’s posed with grace and beauty and yet distorted, full of infinite sorrow, removed from the world and lost in herself. I get the sense when she touches her bow to the strings, something magical and terrible will happen.

The East Wind by Aneko

vulgarweed

Title: Moriar Tea
Artist: kimberly80 at DeviantArt
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Rating: T (SFW image but strong language)
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: Gloriously clever and oh-so-pretty play on a coffee-shop or tea-house's chalk sign: beautiful fluidity of lines, incorporation of text, gorgeous rendition of manipulation and longing. Make sure to look at it large. You won't be able to take your eyes off it for quite a while, i'll bet.

Moriar Tea by kimberly80

vulgarweed

Title: The Pathologist
Artist: bubug on DeviantArt
Pairing: Gen, Molly Hooper
Rating: G
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: "Sherlock" + Tim Burton. “I’ve seen much worse, but then I do post-mortems!”

Reccer's comments: Exactly what it says on the tin - adorable creepy morbid Molly in a Tim Burton pop-gothic cartoon style, with her brain friend Helen-Louise in a pan in her hands, and lots of adorably sinister tools in her lab coat pocket. I love Molly, I love her corny gallows humor, and this portrait really does her justice. Please do be sure to look at this as large as you can get it, the attention to detail is incredible. The artist also has portraits of Irene Adler and Jim Moriarty in this style.

The Pathologist

vulgarweed

Title: Well that’s certainly not cocaine
Artist: coeykuhn on Tumblr
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (or possibly Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, shippiness ambiguous)
Rating: M (drug use, hallucinations, slight horror)
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: Oh my.
Well that’s certainly not cocaine, then wtf did you take sherlock.

Reccer's comments: This has haunted me since the first time I saw it years ago - Sherlock, pushed past his limits, reverting to old bad habits while horrible hallucinations of bugs and demons - and half-demonic Moriarty - hover around him, surrounded by tokens of self-doubt and failure. Can he even see or feel John, who is kneeling in front of him caring for him with a look of heartbreaking grief and concern? Note the symbolic chess pieces!

wtf did you take, sherlock

vulgarweed

Title: The Adventure of the Empty House
Artist: pollyguo on Tumblr
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: T? SFW
Verse: ACD Books

Reccer's comments: Gorgeous b & w line drawing with such a sense of presence and intensity - the kind of moment that freezes in the mind forever - framed beautifully. Holmes has returned and doesn’t even finish taking off his disguise before Watson, with more presence of mind than he has in canon, reacts somewhat more appropriately (passionate kiss). It’s Holmes who seems more on the edge of fainting.

The Adventure of the Empty House by pollyguo

vulgarweed

Title: Untitled. Violin

Author/Artist: camillo1978fanart
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: G
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: (A clip from the alternate-first-meeting ficlet): The weather becomes muggy and uncomfortably warm. John shoves paint-sealed windows up and steals a desktop fan from the shared institutional kitchen. At 1.54 am he lies on his three foot bed, toes spread to catch the fan’s feeble artificial breeze. Someone in a nearby flat is playing a tango on the violin. They are good at it. By turns arrogant and seductive. For the first time in days, John shuts his eyes and lets his senses concentrate on a single stimulus.

Reccer's comments: Absolutely gorgeous use of motion and light in this romantic dreamscape scene of Sherlock and John dancing together in a sunlit room that is the inside of a violin (inspired by those beautiful photographs of the interiors of stringed instruments and how they resemble mysterious rooms). The sense of peace and intimacy, the expression on Sherlock’s face is breathtaking.

Art and Short Story (must be logged in to Tumblr, I think)

vulgarweed

Title: From Arsonist's Lullaby
Artist: fivepipsandart at Tumblr
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Rating: T, maybe, for mild body horror imagery?
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: All you have is your fire / and the place you need to reach (from the Hozier song)

Reccer's comments: Utterly haunting stark black and white lineart, with a horror/dark magic-realist quality: the clench and kiss of Sherlock and Jim is urgent, passionate - and ultimately fatal. Such a visceral rendering of two people who cannot survive in the world together, nor survive without each other.

From Arsonist's Lullaby

vulgarweed

Title: Untitled
Artist: nodadraws on Tumblr
Pairing: Gen, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: BBC

Reccer's comments: Beautiful use of light and visual angles and subtle muted color in this stunning image of Mycroft from ASiB, having just received Moriarty’s taunting text and realizing all the implications. Perfect encapsulation of a moment of shock and sorrow.

Mycroft, shocked

sanguinity

Title: Untitled Roxburgh "The Hound of the Baskerville" sketches
Author:

wandarer3
Pairing: Gen, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart
Artist's summary: sketch from film "The Hound of the Baskervilles" 2002

Reccer's comments: Lovely, evocative sketches of scenes from the 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. I'm particularly taken with this joint portrait (sketch 29) and its subtle tension between the two men: Holmes' assured confidence front-and-center, while Watson, measured in his discontent, is partially clipped by the frame. There are also two nice individual portraits: Richard Roxburgh's Holmes with his cat-has-the-canary smile, and Hart's windblown Watson on the Tor (sketch 28).

The Roxburgh sketches are collected within the artist's multi-adaptation Sherlock Holmes gallery (which includes BBC, ACD, Granada, and a very nice but easy-to-miss Study in Emerald). I particularly recommend the Roxburgh sketches, of course, but there are other things to enjoy in the collection, as well.

rachelindeed

Title: The Reichenbach Fall
Artist: nao333
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: last night, I couldn’t sleep after watched Sherlock2x3, so I decided to paint a picture of SH. I used ArtStudio Lite (art app) to paint this pic, now I have a pain in my finger haha.

Reccer's comments: Oh, this is a gorgeous, ghostly piece. It's a close-up portrait of Sherlock's face, angled down, lashes lowered. The textures are overlapping, feathered, as if all the angles of his features make up their own collage. His skin is bone white, with deep grey and blue shadows defining his nose and his hair. There is somehow something skeletal in the fold of his collar. This is Sherlock in the moments before he walked up to the roof; he is both haunted and haunting.

rachelindeed

Artist: amandatollesonart on tumblr
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: I recently ran across this artist's awe-inspiring catalogue of BBC Sherlock portraits, varying in style from pencil sketches to digital paintings. The striking realism of the drawings and the way the artist has experimented with different ways of expressing character and mood are amazing. Their pencil sketches offer beautiful close-ups full of nuanced expression, such as these series 1 era portraits of John Watson and Sherlock.

The digital paintings experiment more with light and mood. Check out the drizzly greys of Bored; see how Sherlock's surroundings and his own body blur around the edges while the lurid, cartoonish smiley face on the wall is matched by a squiggly, comic-strip black cloud over Sherlock's own head. And look how the artist plays with stark shadows against an abstract background in this beautiful silhouette of Sherlock.

The artist's tumblr posts are not tagged by fandom so there is a mixture of art on any given page of their blog, but you can find the rest of their Sherlock art on these two pages: here and here. It's all beautiful!

sanguinity

Title: Cranial Diameters
Artist:

ichthyosaurus
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Mortimer (gen)
Rating: G
Verse: ACD Books
Author's summary: From Hound of the Baskervilles where Dr. Mortimer is fanboying over Sherlock's singular skull proportions.

Reccer's comments:

"You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

— The Hound of the Baskervilles

A little skull-coveting silliness. :-)

rachelindeed

Title: Sherlock BBC Skull Bandana
Artist: annaobscurial
Pairing: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: Happy Halloween, everyone! Here's a piece of art both beautiful and creepy, as Sherlock embraces elegant simplicity in his costuming choice. Memento mori.

rachelindeed

Title: Inktober 2017 ASIP Sherlock portrait
Artist: lunadax
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Inktober 2017, Fandom Edition! ASIP Sherlock :)

Reccer's comments: This month there are so many amazing pieces of art coming out of the annual Inktober challenge. This particular portrait by lunadax is one of my favorites so far. A stunningly beautiful rendering of Sherlock's face with delicate crosshatching and a careful balance of light and shadow. I particularly love the abstracted look in his eyes.

venusinthenight

Title: (untitled single line-art drawing of Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson)
Artist:

ainosgarden
Pairing: Sherlock & Joan
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Verse: Elementary
Artist's summary: I know this is a bit late, but…

Happy Valentine’s Day to platonic life partners as well!

A single-line drawing of Joan and Sherlock from Elementary.

Reccer's comments: It's a very simple single-line art drawing. I like how Sherlock is sitting more "properly" with a single leg crossed in the loveseat, contrasting with Joan sitting with both legs crossed on the loveseat.

swissmarg

Title: Antidote (link goes to tumblr)
Artist: anotherwellkeptsecret
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 1 mini-comic
Rating: Unrated, SFW
Warnings: None
Verse: ACD
Author's summary: None given. First line: In the dim light of a foggy November day, I chanced upon a package addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Reccer's comments: Based on the Adventure of the Dying Detective, this is the comic equivalent of a one-shot missing scene that packs the punch of a full-blown story, and as such is an absolute delight. The facial expressions in this little comic are everything. I just love the tenderness and sweet emotion, paired with a modicum of angst and a hint of eroticism.

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rachelindeed - Art Rec: Newspapers...Fairytales (John in TRF)
rachelindeed - Art Rec: A Sketch of Young Mycroft
vulgarweed - Art Rec: Untitled (Kiss) by amysherrierart
vulgarweed - Art Rec: Rosie Is Playing With Mrs Hudson Now by sh2jw
vulgarweed - Art Rec: The East Wind by aneko
vulgarweed - Art Rec: Moriar Tea by kimberly80
vulgarweed - Art Rec: The Pathologist by bubug
vulgarweed - Art Rec: Oh my well that’s certainly not cocaine... by coeykuhn
vulgarweed - Art Rec: The Adventure of the Empty House by pollyguo
vulgarweed - Art/Fic Rec: Untitled Art and Ficlet by camillo1978
vulgarweed - Art Rec: From Arsonist's Lullaby by fivepipsandart
vulgarweed - Art Rec: Mycroft (H for Home) by nodadraws
sanguinity - Art Rec: Roxburgh "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (2002)
rachelindeed - Art Rec: The Reichenbach Fall
rachelindeed - Art Rec: Amandatollesonart's BBC Sherlock portraits
sanguinity - Art Rec: Cranial Diameters
rachelindeed - Art Rec: Skull Bandana
rachelindeed - Art Rec: Inktober 2017 ASIP Sherlock portrait
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Art Rec: Newspapers...Fairytales (John in TRF)

Art Rec: A Sketch of Young Mycroft

Art Rec: Untitled (Kiss) by amysherrierart

Art Rec: Rosie Is Playing With Mrs Hudson Now by sh2jw

Art Rec: The East Wind by aneko

Art Rec: Moriar Tea by kimberly80

Art Rec: The Pathologist by bubug

Art Rec: Oh my well that’s certainly not cocaine... by coeykuhn

Art Rec: The Adventure of the Empty House by pollyguo

Art/Fic Rec: Untitled Art and Ficlet by camillo1978

Art Rec: From Arsonist's Lullaby by fivepipsandart

Art Rec: Mycroft (H for Home) by nodadraws

Art Rec: Roxburgh "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (2002)

Art Rec: The Reichenbach Fall

Art Rec: Amandatollesonart's BBC Sherlock portraits

Art Rec: Cranial Diameters

Art Rec: Skull Bandana

Art Rec: Inktober 2017 ASIP Sherlock portrait

Art Rec: Single-Line Art Drawing of Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson

Art Rec: Antidote

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