Immortal by Gloria-san (SFW)

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: John Sheppard
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital painting
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Gloria-san on DA
Why this piece is awesome: I'm squeezing in two final last minute "John Sheppard portrait" recs for November October, as it's still November October in most places. This is dark!John, depicted as a vampire, so I really should have posted it for Halloween if I'd been organised. It's a powerful work, with Sheppard looking grim and dangerous, as is fitting, featuring dark, dried-blood colours.
Link: Immortal

John Sheppard by Gloria-san (SFW)

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: John Sheppard
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital painting
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: Gloria-san on DA
Why this piece is awesome: And the last of my "John Sheppard portrait" recs for November, also by Gloria-san. I don't often rec two works by the same artist in a set, but this is very different from the last one, and it's just so gorgeous. It's an almost photo-realistic painting of John Sheppard in a black leather jacket, showing himself off in a gorgeously bratty way. Maybe it's the pose, and the slightly youthful, idealised depiction, but in my head this is a young Sheppard, just before the airforce, at a time when he could still act out, off to a gay bar to get himself picked up. Um, yes...that is to say, I really like this one a lot! (Oh, and definitely enlarge it for a close-up view, as the detail is amazing).
Link: John Sheppard