☼ The background is Inara's shuttle model by 'biotech'
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=6&t=2398#342023

☼ The crew was made from nine colored drawings by Megan Brophy. the "wiccawitch." Her black and white line art is at http://wiccawitch.deviantart.com/art/Firefly-Crew-Lineart-29850585

Megan Brophy wrote:
“THIS.HAS.TAKEN.FOREVER I've been working on this since about 20th feb...“ [2006]

“I think when this is eventually finished being coloured (I haven't started yet), I'm going to make it a wallpaper, in which case there will definitely be a background...”

“I'm sorry if the image takes ages to load, i know it's quite big, but tough.... :D”

“I drew each person, scanned them in, redrew the lineart and fixed errors. I put them together as I finished each one and scaled them to be approximate height matches for the actors, and then fixed any errors I could see that made them look out of context. Then I added the parasol, cause that had to wait until I knew exactly where Simon would be standing in relation to Kaylee.”

“These are, of course, the main characters in Joss Whedon's Firefly series, and film Serenity. TOTALLY awesome show - Fox are idiots to have cancelled it. It was one of the most original sci-fi programs i've ever seen. It was about as original as Farscape for goodness' sake. Sci-Fi/Western!!! 'Nuff said.”