I'd been itching to draw Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) and Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black), of Stargate SG-1, for a while now (was going to do it a week ago, actually, but my crafting muse, Hern, took charge and distracted me for a bit). Then after watching the episode "Counterstrike", my writing muse, Maer, was inspired to write a fic well, so she and my art muse, La, decided to collaborate -- this is a scene from my fic, "Solace" (which I'll upload a while later).

I have to confess that I had only a passing interest in the series before, though Daniel's been my fave character since the movie, and I found I enjoyed Shanks' portrayal even more than Spader's. While I've barely seen any of Farscape, I *immediately* liked Black's Vala (although I missed her first appearance, not encountering her until "Avalon, Part 1"); I adore her all on her own from a redemptionistra standpoint. And the chemistry between Daniel and Vala is spectacular, earning them an honored place in my shipper heart.

Drawn with an assortment of pencils, both graphite and coloured, on crappy construction paper. I also utilised the handy skew, scale, cut & paste, colour variations, cloning, and cropping tools in Photoshop elements when I decided that the angles and proportions of certain aspects didn't look quite right, and the scanning messed with the colour. (The original also shows more of their heads and necks -- there was only so much "fixing" could manage, alas). I Photoshop!!! A number of photoreferences were used from the "Vala-Dictorians Unite!" website: [link]

Daniel Jackson, Vala Mal Doran, and Stargate SG-1 © Stargate (II) Productions, Kawoosh Productions, The SCI FI Channel, Showtime/Viacom, Sony/MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions.