Once upon a time...

Title: Wedding Bell Blues.
Artist: fenderlove
Rating/Warnings: G/Worksafe. I guess a warning for Spike in a corset, if that's not your sort of thing. XD
Notes: For blondebitz's request at the nekid_spike fic/art exchange- "I want: Artwork Digital painting. Either a cute Spike/Angel or Spike alone wearing his duster." I chose to do a little illustration of Spike and Angel getting married (yes, I know Angel's ring is on the wrong hand, but I liked the juxtaposition, and I figure that the boys would as well ^_~). Also, I think I could add this one to the "Reasons Why Fender Should Not be Allowed to Design Clothes" collection. :D

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x-posted on nekid_spike.

Title: All Dolled Up.
Artist: fenderlove
Rating/Warnings: Totally NOT WORKSAFE. This illustration contains Spike wearing a corset and other naughty things (I'm not going to say that he's "in drag" 'cause he's not trying to be a lady; he's just trying to be the sexiest sexy Spike he can sexily be), abuse of stuffed animals, and so much cute that I think I broke my squee. There's no nudity, but Spike in silk underthings leaves nothing to the imagination, and you wouldn't want your boss catching you looking at it... or maybe you would? Pervert. :D
Notes: Looks like Angel tried to make it up to Spike for forgetting Valentine's Day by bringing him a lot of presents. I think Spike's gonna make him work very hard for forgiveness.

Special thank to lilithbint for suggesting the kinky boots! :D

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Title: Automated Utopia.
Artist: fenderlove
Rating: Completely worksafe.
Notes: This is for sockmonkeyhere's birthday for she is my partner in Frilliam/Frilly/Spred and all things Spike & Fred. I never really liked my old banner for Automated Utopia, and since I am going to do one of those fun archive posts of all my fics to go on my journal frontpage, I thought it might be nice to let my inspiration run towards making some banners for my long!fics.

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Happy Birthday, Socky! Also, I'm not giving any specific dates about posting, but Automated Utopia II is finished being written. :D

Title: Memento Mori.
Artist: fenderlove
Rating: G
Summary: This was done for whichclothes's beautiful fanfiction Memento Mori: Hominem Te Memento. It really inspired me after a long dry-spell. I used a new technique in trying to recreate a watercolour feel in Photoshop. I wish I could draw Xander better. XD

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Title: Kingyo-Sukui.
Artist: fenderlove
Rating: G
Summary: Since Jeanty sorta got an art piece from me, I thought I whip up something for Brian Lynch. Kingyo-sukui is Japanese for goldfish scooping, which is an activity at many fairs and festivals where children can catch goldfish to keep as pets. I got the idea in my head of Spike, Beck, and Betta George go to visit Tok in Japan, and they all get dressed up in fancy kimonos to go to a summer festival. I imagined that Tok's little sister Kaori might try her hand at kingyo-sukui, but that would probably make George a little sad, so they decide to let the little fish free in a pond... and then it turns out that what they thought was a plain old goldfish was actually a sparkly teeny baby Splendeen demon! I'm calling him Betta Kin.
I'm totally writing fic to go with this... and just to note, this is the first time I've drawn Spike in a men's kimono. Normally I draw him in a furisode. XD

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Title: A Spangel Christmas
Artist: fenderlove
Medium: Drawing and colouring in Photoshop CS3.
Rating: Worksafe.
Summary: This is my submission for noel_of_spike this year.

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Title: Spike Pratt: Tomb Raider!
Artist: fenderlove
Medium: Drawing and colouring in Photoshop CS3.
Rating: PG-13 for bare chestage. For my Nekid Numbers for August, I got Spike, Drusilla, Egypt, and Bondage, so here's my submission! Spike Pratt was off raiding an Egyptian tomb when a crazy priestess capture him as a sacrifice to her long-since-mummified master!
I want to eventually finish the background, but work has been killing me.

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x-posted at nekid_spike and darker_spike.

Title: Arabain Coffee.
Artist: fenderlove
Medium: Drawing and colouring in Photoshop CS3.
Rating: PG-13 for bare chestage and slightly covered boy-bits.
Summary: This is a piece from the same series as my Spike/Fred Pas de Deux: Adagio (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy). It is also named after one of the dances from The Nutcracker. Eventually, I'd like to do all the dances. :D

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x-posted at darker_spike and nekid_spike.

This is my entry for the fic/art exchange on nekid_spike. darklingdawn asked for a worksafe banner for her fanfic Sitting Shiva.



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Title: Christos Anesti!/Alithos Anesti!
Artist: fenderlove
Medium: Drawing and colouring in Photoshop CS3.
Rating: Totally Worksafe.
Summary: In my comic London Calling, my OC Ursula is Eastern Orthodox, so with Pascha (Easter in the Greek Church) being tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to do a piece with some Paschal themes. Spike (who is very brunette and sheeple-headed) is holding a tsoureki (Easter bread) with a kokina avga (red egg) on top. Ursula is also holding some kokina avga. They are wearing my own version of Greek wedding stefana (floral wreaths) with Easter lilies.
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x-posted on nekid_spike.