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Back to Sherlock Holmes art!

Oh, I am proud of this one. I drew it yesterday and this morning entirely by mouse in openCanvas.

The scene is, of course, Holmes and Moriarty beside the (here mysteriously invisible as per stylistic choice) Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, while Holmes writes a quick goodbye to Watson.

This was inspired by the fantastic radio version of "The Final Problem" with Sir John Gielgud as Holmes, and Orson Welles as what has to be the best Moriarty in the history of ever. He's absolutely perfect, to the degree that I may just stop criticizing actors playing Moriarty, because no one is ever going to manage it that well again. Gielgud is an excellent Holmes, and the interchanges between them are as wonderful as I always hoped somebody would do someday.

(If this interests you at all, I recommend you head over to Archive.org forthwith. I haven't checked the copyright status of this program myself, and so cannot vouch for it being public domain, although its presence on that website brings me to assume so. It is under "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : OTR Era Episodes" which is a large selection of old Sherlock Holmes radio programs, many of which are also quite good and worth a listen. This particular file is called "-SH_1954-12-21 The Final Probl")

Oh, and quite a bit of the style of this owes to me suddenly remembering how much I like Aubrey Beardsley. Didn't know I could draw without scribbling, didja? (I must say, I was surprised.)

[Edit: I am only sporadically a perfectionist, but the hand was bothering me at this resolution in ways that it hadn't been full size.]

Description
Back to Sherlock Holmes art!

Oh, I am proud of this one. I drew it yesterday and this morning entirely by mouse in openCanvas.

The scene is, of course, Holmes and Moriarty beside the (here mysteriously invisible as per stylistic choice) Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, while Holmes writes a quick goodbye to Watson.

This was inspired by the fantastic radio version of "The Final Problem" with Sir John Gielgud as Holmes, and Orson Welles as what has to be the best Moriarty in the history of ever. He's absolutely perfect, to the degree that I may just stop criticizing actors playing Moriarty, because no one is ever going to manage it that well again. Gielgud is an excellent Holmes, and the interchanges between them are as wonderful as I always hoped somebody would do someday.

(If this interests you at all, I recommend you head over to Archive.org forthwith. I haven't checked the copyright status of this program myself, and so cannot vouch for it being public domain, although its presence on that website brings me to assume so. It is under "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : OTR Era Episodes" which is a large selection of old Sherlock Holmes radio programs, many of which are also quite good and worth a listen. This particular file is called "-SH_1954-12-21 The Final Probl")

Oh, and quite a bit of the style of this owes to me suddenly remembering how much I like Aubrey Beardsley. Didn't know I could draw without scribbling, didja? (I must say, I was surprised.)

[Edit: I am only sporadically a perfectionist, but the hand was bothering me at this resolution in ways that it hadn't been full size.]