Fanart Recs

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Michael Burnham
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: sleepymccoy
Why this piece is awesome: I love the concept and the colours in this portrait. Michael‘s face is made of varying shapes/planes which have been coloured, but there are no gradual shaded areas. The effect is very different and colours have been chosen well to represent highlights and shadows. The negative space is also used to great effect. All in all it has a very cool futuristic look about it.

Link: here on Tumblr

So here’s another awesome female character from Discovery: Admiral Katrina Cornwell, played by Jayne Brook. The fandom is creating more and more awesome art and I really have to keep myself in check to rec a work for every character first before branching out to all the other cool stuff I found.

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Character: Admiral Katrina Cornwell
Content Notes/Warnings: None
Medium: Digital art
Artist Website/Gallery: caressyouintodarkness
Why this piece is awesome: I really like the composition of the poster, the colourful warp signatures (?) connecting the three portraits of Cornwell. Also of course the awesome slogan “the future is feminist”. Putting her face into the Federation symbol in the middle is great too. Also now you can finally see the Discovery!
Link: here this was originallymade as a banner for a Katrina Cornwell/Jayne Brook fantumblr but the artist changed a couple of things and made a poster of it.

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Character: Captain Philippa Georgiou
Content Notes/Warnings: Artists’s comment underneath the art contains a major spoiler for episode 2
Medium: Digital art
Artist on Tumblr: aethira’s art tag
Artist Website/Gallery: SongAndStars has been deleted
Why this piece is awesome: This is another piece in a cartoon/animation style, with very soft colours and a lovely lighting effect (which again gives the impression of the character being beamed somewhere like in the Saru piece). Philippa is very well done here (though she looks a little bit too young) and this piece really gives the newly designed uniforms their place to shine.
Link: see it here Updated Tumblr Link [Jan 2019]

The next character from Discovery I'd like to introduce via art is a very cool alien: Saru.

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Character: Saru
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: -
Artist Website/Gallery: TheArtofGARD
Why this piece is awesome: I really love the colouring in this with strong vertical lines of colours going through the whole piece. It gives the impression of being beamed IMO - a cool sci-fi look. Saru is so well done here, with very nice lineart, and his expression is classic Saru, a little pensive, almost melancholy.
Link: Lt. Saru

Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Character: Michael Burnham
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: Digital Art
Artist on DW/LJ: -
Artist Website/Gallery: lornaka and lorna-ka. She also has a few speed paintings on Youtube: here.
Why this piece is awesome: This is an early Michael (recognizable by the Vulcanesque straight hairdo) drawn in a cartoon style. I love that we see her smiling here. The colours and lighting make this a beautiful piece. I'm imagining that this is set during episode one or even pre-series. (Just as an aside, go check out Lorna's Star Wars art too! She has a pin-up calendar. Just saying.)
Link: Michael sketch


There is so much cool art, but I'll try to first make a rec for each of the characters before I'm doubling up.