Fanart Recs

Fandom: The Professionals
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ray Doyle
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: Pastels?
Artist on DW/LJ: not that I'm aware
Artist Website/Gallery: enednoviel at DA
Why this piece is awesome: Just squeaking in before January closes with this last one, as I especially like Doyle, and the artist draws very fluently with great likenesses. This isn't actually my favorite one from enednoviel's gallery (I prefer the "Sad Doyle" one that she's unsatisfied with for some reason) but I had to use this one (because, Hair!) to show that artists complaining about drawing John Sheppard's hair don't know how goddam lucky they are. Seventies hair - the fanartist's nightmare! 
Link: Smiling Doyle

Fandom: The Professionals
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ray Doyle/William Bodie
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: blended digital art
Artist on DW/LJ:  gvenanne at LJ
Artist Website/Gallery: as above
Why this piece is awesome: You'll see - this art is just brilliantly done, putting Bodie and Doyle into an "Age of Sail" AU setting. She's used digital blending and painterly effects and the end result is really amazing - it looks almost like a series of real oil or gouache paintings. There are several illustrations here done for The Professionals Big Bang 2011, illustrating the fic The True Confessions of Raymond Doyle by tears_of_nienna. I'm linking to them all as one post, as they're clearly a set.
Link: art is here

Fandom: The Professionals
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: William Bodie/Ray Doyle
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: monochromatic oil painting on canvas board
Artist on DW/LJ: no
Artist Website/Gallery: Lorraine Brevig's main site is here
Why this piece is awesome: I'm reccing The Professionals art this month, and it's mostly going to be the Bodie/Doyle slash pairing. So this portrait of Bodie and Doyle is to introduce the boys, as I'm not sure if people will remember them. It's a late seventies TV cop buddies show, hence the wonderfully retro hair and clothes. They work for C15 ("a fictional British law enforcement department, instructed by the home secretary to use any means to deal with crimes of a serious nature that go beyond the capacity of the police"). One nice thing about this fandom is that so much of the art's original. This is a very intense painting and I like its noir feel, being monochrome.
Link: Interrupted