Happy Birthday quickreaver!

[amberdreams]

I kind of feel I should apologise - I keep gifting you with not very good art because I fail at planning ahead and so end up doing your birthday pressies at the last minute. Oh well. It's green, and it's Sam so I hope you forgive the scrappiness my dear quickreaver! LOL
Have a wonderful birthday with lots of cake and indulgences.

Full green man Sam (and try saying that quickly when you've had a glass of wine or two!)

Kind of inspired by your love of emerald and your recent mer!Sam/Jared. No references used and it shows.

Comments

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

this is very cool I love it

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks Em!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

HEY NOW. Reference isn't any sort of mandatory demand, especially when it's such a lovely, spontaneous, fluid, organic, HANDSOME drawing as this! And yes, this is only the perfect color for me. :D I loooove the swoop of his nose and hair, and how he glows from the shadows. I am honored to set eyes on him. You're nothing short of awesome, lady. It's been such a treat to share a fandom with you as long as I have, and I know if we didn't live on separate continents, we'd be having coffee and tea on the regular!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw, now I'm all sad we can't mooch around - damn this ocean and huge landmass between us! You'd probably also get on famously with my other real artist friend, Lois. :D

Ahyhoo, glad you liked GreenSam I Am. *smishes you*

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

This is a perfect gift for the birthday girl! I adore the highlights and lowlights, that beautiful shade of emerald green, those luscious locks and the way you've captured his profile. Stunning work, as always! :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw thanks!

[sillie]

Oooh, this is lovely. <3 :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Eee thank you, glad you think so!

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

*randomly drops into LJland*

That's lovely -- the forward sweep of the hair, especially. It has a sort of seaweedy quality that works with the underwater green effect.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for an underwater-ish effect so YAY!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

omgthehair. that is really fantastic hair. and the nose. and the mouth. and all the green, the green is fabulous.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad you approve!

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous gift for your friend!!! I love it!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! She liked it too, so that's great.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I don't know why you think this isn't very good, I think it's beautiful, and am especially loving the emerald and his very gorgeous cheek and chin bones :D Also, epic hair is epic!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ah I just would have liked to get a better likeness, and I just noticed his ear is too high. Heh.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Ever the perfectionist ;)

[kalliel]

I love this! "No reference" reads to me as wonderfully stylized, because you can definitely tell who it is--not in that "I recognize this face" sense but in that "I know, at some deep and indelibly Sam/JP level, who this is." The play of light is especially gorgeous, and I love the weightlessness of his hair underwater. Excellent work!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I love Sam level... I think I'll have to tell myself any distortion I'm seeing is because of the water. Right? LOL

[sandy79.livejournal.com]

gorgeous! I can see Merman!Sam down in the depths of the ocean (where the color goes towards an emerald green), resting from a day full of adventures. And Happy Birthday, quickreaver!!