221B Recs

Title: Boop
Artist: artisticendeavors on tumblr
Pairing: Gen
Rating: not rated, but certainly SFW
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: none given

Reccer's comments: I have so much art to rec this month! I'd like to start with this beautiful piece. It's a sketch of BBC Sherlock's shooting-the-wall moment from "The Great Game," done in a style that is so reminiscent of Sidney Paget that it takes my breath away. I don't even know if that stylistic homage was intentional -- the artist doesn't mention it -- but the shading, the shadows, the sketchwork and color all combine to make this seem like it would be perfectly at home in the pages of The Strand.

The detail work is simply fantastic -- the collection of creases on Sherlock's pajamas and the marvelous contours of his leather chair are just delightful. The elegant, indolent drape of his hand...the sharply defined bones of his foot...wow.

Enjoy :)