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Art: Waiting for the Eastern Glow
Mar. 18th, 2014 10:54 pmFic title: Waiting for the Eastern Glow by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nympha_alba On AO3
Art bymatchboximpala
Characters/Pairings: Merlin/Arthur
Rating: R
Word Count: ~11k
Warnings: Angst, (canon) death, reincarnation
Summary:
Camelot, then:
If Merlin was born to serve Arthur, what will become of him now that Arthur is dead? He is nothing without his king, only a sorcerer with no use for his magic…
London, now:
When Merlin sits on a park bench reading, trying to ignore the group of young men playing football on the lawn, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever – or that he has reason to know better than anyone what the word "forever" really means.
Art notes:
It wasn't long before![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
merlinreversebb claiming that I read and really enjoyed The View From the Mountain by nympha_alba, so I was pretty thrilled to have an art submission claimed by her. I am not disappointed -- Waiting for the Eastern Glow is a lovely story and it inspired me to create a gif that I am pretty happy with. A big thanks to chosenfire28 for organizing this.
Cover:
Photo of London is from Flickr Commons.
Photo of Camelot is a screenshot.
Font is Harrington.
Blending photo technique from this tutorial: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/photo-blend/
A big thank you toamphigoury who beta'd this for me. I didn't incorporate the changes suggested because I had difficulty executing them, but I greatly appreciate the time and effort!
Banner:
For the gif I used a screenshot from the last episode. I made a selection of Merlin and copied it onto a transparent layer. I then removed Merlin from the original image using the content-aware fill tool and duplicated the altered layer multiple times. On each successive layer I gradually reduced the saturation, lightened the image, and added noise. I duplicated the Merlin layer and then merged his figure onto each of the other layers so it appeared that the world was changing around him. Then I created the animation. A larger version of it can be found on my tumblr.
nympha_alba On AO3Art by
matchboximpalaCharacters/Pairings: Merlin/Arthur
Rating: R
Word Count: ~11k
Warnings: Angst, (canon) death, reincarnation
Summary:
Camelot, then:
If Merlin was born to serve Arthur, what will become of him now that Arthur is dead? He is nothing without his king, only a sorcerer with no use for his magic…
London, now:
When Merlin sits on a park bench reading, trying to ignore the group of young men playing football on the lawn, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever – or that he has reason to know better than anyone what the word "forever" really means.
Art notes:
It wasn't long before
merlinreversebb claiming that I read and really enjoyed The View From the Mountain by nympha_alba, so I was pretty thrilled to have an art submission claimed by her. I am not disappointed -- Waiting for the Eastern Glow is a lovely story and it inspired me to create a gif that I am pretty happy with. A big thanks to chosenfire28 for organizing this.Cover:
Photo of London is from Flickr Commons.
Photo of Camelot is a screenshot.
Font is Harrington.
Blending photo technique from this tutorial: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/photo-blend/
A big thank you to
amphigoury who beta'd this for me. I didn't incorporate the changes suggested because I had difficulty executing them, but I greatly appreciate the time and effort!Banner:
For the gif I used a screenshot from the last episode. I made a selection of Merlin and copied it onto a transparent layer. I then removed Merlin from the original image using the content-aware fill tool and duplicated the altered layer multiple times. On each successive layer I gradually reduced the saturation, lightened the image, and added noise. I duplicated the Merlin layer and then merged his figure onto each of the other layers so it appeared that the world was changing around him. Then I created the animation. A larger version of it can be found on my tumblr.
