Cravings: Satisfied.

[fishpatrol]

For some unknown reason, I'd been desperately craving for a J2 tennis!AU for a month before my trip, back in June. I'd wanted to read a tennis!AU so much that I'd even started writing one out myself. But the fic-granting gods smiled upon me, and as I was randomly clicking around one evening at my aunt's place in Shanghai, I came across this lovely gem. I think there may have been a happy squeak upon seeing the words "Wimbledon", "rivalry", "Jensen", and "Jared" in the summary.

I highly recommend lazy_daze's Topspin (since it's an AU, I think even the non-SPN Tenipuri fans on my flist may enjoy this :)). It's well-paced, full of tension, and scorching hot.

I miss drawing tennis!boys, so I did a bit of a sketch based on the fic:


Reference for poses: a couple of pictures of Ryoma I had lying around (on these Tenipuri tarot cards actually -- but, uh, I don't want to talk about that ;;;;).
Notes: I don't know where half of the tones in my Photoshop went, so pencil shading it was. :| I drew from memory and didn't reference the fic, so my apologies for any inaccuracies there may be.

Comments

[legoline.livejournal.com]

This is really cool :)

[fishpatrol]

Thanks! :D

[lazy-daze.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD!!!!!! *flails a little*

;sdgjs;ldgjsd SURPRISE ART IS THE BEST THING EVER. This is gorgeous, thank you so much! I love love how they're both in motion; there's such a gorgeous energy to this and it feels like they're reacting to each other, you can see the connection and intensity. AGH. THANK YOU. !!!

[fishpatrol]

Thank you for writing the fic that inspired this! :):) I'm really happy you like this!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

This is just fantastic. I think it fits lazy_daze's fic perfectly.

[fishpatrol]

Thanks, I'm so glad you think so! :D

[lucy-08.livejournal.com]

Aw! I really like this! I don't know if you did it on purpose, but it KIND OF LOOKS like they're INTO the game but SOMETHING (ie. each other) is stopping them from putting their full attention into the GAME itself. OR I might be too influenced by having read the fic. :P

Anyway, lovely art! Thanks for sharing. :D

[fishpatrol]

Nope, not intentional, but I certainly do like your interpretation! ;) Thank you so much for the lovely comment!

[tanpopo03.livejournal.com]

Awesome work! OMG the freckles &hearts!

[fishpatrol]

Thanks so much! :D

[stellamira]

This is a really great picture. :)

[fishpatrol]

Thank you! :D