Big Bang Artwork for Sacrilege
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dephigravityTitle: Artwork for Sacrilege
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xdarkdesires
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Minor Fic Spoilers
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Artist Notes: For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_j2_bigbang
*For all of these pieces I choose to do them solely in Photoshop from beginning to end rather than using Sai or Corel, which is fairly new to me. Yay for finding pencil brush settings I like!
**Thanks to:
My author,xdarkdesires. She is not only one of the most delightful people I have met in fandom, but she knows the value of a good squee! It was also a blessing to have such a great fic to work with, as well as having someone so prepared for and knowing what they wanted out of this challenge, all the while remaining flexible and extremely patient when it came to timelines and my procrastination/real life happenings.
To my art betas,transfixeddream, fiercelynormal, and ldyghst for all their tremendously helpful feedback, their effort in trying their hardest to keep me motivated and not letting me fall back into my procrastinating ways-- all the while not snapping my head off when I had yet another tee shirt design that much. /o\
Toshinyslasher for being the best cheerleader to have ever cheer lead and urging me to sign up again in the first place! :P
And finally tothehighwaywoman and wendy for organizing this challenge, the work you both put into this challenge is awe inspiring.
Every human is born with a guardian angel and Jensen is Jared’s. It takes a grand total of two minutes without Jensen’s constant attention for Jared to get himself killed in the most pathetic of ways and so Jensen decides to take on a human persona and make sure Jared lives until his actual expiration date. It turns out that gay chicken between a human and an angel can actually be pretty risky when feelings are involved. Sometimes you have to figure out if it’s worth the fall.
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For this year, I had the pleasure of working withxdarkdesires, a fantastic author who shares both my love of random capslocking squee and ellipses. :D
The End is the Beginning
(click art for lineart) (also on
)
For my Jared piece, I decided to do the very first scene in the fic, namely his death-- what a way to start out. HE GETS BETTER THOUGH! Originally I had a crew of paramedics, but I wanted to avoid too much gore and trauma, so I decided to do it from this angle and leave that to the imagination. which kind of works, since it brings more of a focus to Jared and Harley. For the ghost effect, I took my cues from the Jedi school of special effects, blue transparent hues with a white glow effect. If it ain't broke...
The Real Me
(click art for step by step) (also on)
The graveside scene was the first piece that came vividly to my mind, and was my initial draft submission. I was so excited about the fic, that I started doing this one the morning after I finished reading. I'm not really sure how long it took me, but I know it was over a few days-- mostly because (astransfixeddream can attest to) I couldn't decide on a tee shirt design. I had everything from Hawkman to Superman and from Domo to Yoshi before finally settling on Cap's S.H.I.E.L.D. design. /o\ SOMEDAY I will use them! My personal head canon is that when Jared very first meets Jensen, Jensen is always dressed in slacks, a dress shirt, and a tailored pin striped vest but as he starts remembering how it is to be human, he starts to loosen up-- namely stealing Jared's clothes. :P
My favorite part was doing the reflection in the pond and the detailing the feathers (angel wings referenced from a brush, as well as how I detailed them are in the comments.) Anyway, I also made the textures for the clothing, leaves, and grass-- and purely by accident, I accidentally made a demon face in them. WHOOPS! D:
I Choose You
(also on)
For my banner I chose to use an ideatransfixeddream had given me for my very first BB art two years ago which I just never got around to doing, namely the guys holding hands (one frozen and one on fire in that case) but I found that it would also work perfectly for this fic but with the contrast of human and angel, so there ya go!
Dividers
Not much to say here, I have a new fondness for drawing feathers and for Jared I threw in an Xbox controller since he is a bit of a gamer.
Chapter and Directional Buttons
Icons
Thank you for looking at my art and be sure to check out the fic and showerxdarkdesires with all the praise!
Author:
xdarkdesiresPairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Minor Fic Spoilers
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Artist Notes: For
spn_j2_bigbang*For all of these pieces I choose to do them solely in Photoshop from beginning to end rather than using Sai or Corel, which is fairly new to me. Yay for finding pencil brush settings I like!
**Thanks to:
My author,
xdarkdesires. She is not only one of the most delightful people I have met in fandom, but she knows the value of a good squee! It was also a blessing to have such a great fic to work with, as well as having someone so prepared for and knowing what they wanted out of this challenge, all the while remaining flexible and extremely patient when it came to timelines and my procrastination/real life happenings.To my art betas,
transfixeddream, fiercelynormal, and ldyghst for all their tremendously helpful feedback, their effort in trying their hardest to keep me motivated and not letting me fall back into my procrastinating ways-- all the while not snapping my head off when I had yet another tee shirt design To
shinyslasher for being the best cheerleader to have ever cheer lead and urging me to sign up again in the first place! :PAnd finally to
thehighwaywoman and wendy for organizing this challenge, the work you both put into this challenge is awe inspiring.Every human is born with a guardian angel and Jensen is Jared’s. It takes a grand total of two minutes without Jensen’s constant attention for Jared to get himself killed in the most pathetic of ways and so Jensen decides to take on a human persona and make sure Jared lives until his actual expiration date. It turns out that gay chicken between a human and an angel can actually be pretty risky when feelings are involved. Sometimes you have to figure out if it’s worth the fall.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
For this year, I had the pleasure of working with
xdarkdesires, a fantastic author who shares both my love of random capslocking squee and ellipses. :DThe End is the Beginning
(click art for lineart) (also on
)For my Jared piece, I decided to do the very first scene in the fic, namely his death-- what a way to start out. HE GETS BETTER THOUGH! Originally I had a crew of paramedics, but I wanted to avoid too much gore and trauma, so I decided to do it from this angle and leave that to the imagination. which kind of works, since it brings more of a focus to Jared and Harley. For the ghost effect, I took my cues from the Jedi school of special effects, blue transparent hues with a white glow effect. If it ain't broke...
The Real Me
(click art for step by step) (also on
)The graveside scene was the first piece that came vividly to my mind, and was my initial draft submission. I was so excited about the fic, that I started doing this one the morning after I finished reading. I'm not really sure how long it took me, but I know it was over a few days-- mostly because (as
transfixeddream can attest to) I couldn't decide on a tee shirt design. I had everything from Hawkman to Superman and from Domo to Yoshi before finally settling on Cap's S.H.I.E.L.D. design. /o\ SOMEDAY I will use them! My personal head canon is that when Jared very first meets Jensen, Jensen is always dressed in slacks, a dress shirt, and a tailored pin striped vest but as he starts remembering how it is to be human, he starts to loosen up-- namely stealing Jared's clothes. :PMy favorite part was doing the reflection in the pond and the detailing the feathers (angel wings referenced from a brush, as well as how I detailed them are in the comments.) Anyway, I also made the textures for the clothing, leaves, and grass-- and purely by accident, I accidentally made a demon face in them. WHOOPS! D:
I Choose You
(also on
)For my banner I chose to use an idea
transfixeddream had given me for my very first BB art two years ago which I just never got around to doing, namely the guys holding hands (one frozen and one on fire in that case) but I found that it would also work perfectly for this fic but with the contrast of human and angel, so there ya go!Dividers
Not much to say here, I have a new fondness for drawing feathers and for Jared I threw in an Xbox controller since he is a bit of a gamer.
Chapter and Directional Buttons
Icons
Thank you for looking at my art and be sure to check out the fic and shower
xdarkdesires with all the praise! 
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Date: 2013-07-12 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-13 05:13 am (UTC)You should, it's a quick and light-hearted (for the most part) read! I enjoyed it.
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Date: 2013-07-12 04:17 pm (UTC)Great job, bb! <33
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Date: 2013-07-13 05:18 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2013-07-13 05:21 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-07-12 04:19 pm (UTC)I don't know if it's just me but the demon kind of looks like a pissed off puppy... were you so excited for yours that you couldn't help add it into the art? ;)
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Date: 2013-07-13 05:24 am (UTC)THAT THING WAS UNINTENTIONAL! LMAO And I was too lazy to fix it after I noticed it. DAT'S A LOT OF LEAVES, YO! :P
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! &hearts
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Date: 2013-07-12 04:51 pm (UTC)Not like I didn't already know how talented you were, it's just confirmed over and over again. Your talents are so strong! I adore the shading and angle of Jared's profile in the first shot and then the detail in Jensen's wings is OUTRAGEOUS. So beautiful!
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Date: 2013-07-13 05:28 am (UTC)You are too good to me, SERIOUSLY! And I have your BB on my Kindle ready to go! :D
It's Jensen, HE MUST BE BEAUTIFUL ALL TIMES! There's like a rule or something!
THANK YOU!!!
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Date: 2013-07-12 07:49 pm (UTC). . . and ghost!Jared is just stunning. His expression is kinda breaking my heart, though. :)
I'm also loving on your font. What's the name of that one?
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Date: 2013-07-13 05:41 am (UTC)To be quite honest I was DREADING doing the feathers when I started, but I started experimenting on how I do hair when I posted chibis last month, and realized that the same thing would work for the feather detailing. Namely, I used a 3 pixel brush for the outline and then switched to 1 pixel and used three overlapping colors (black, gray, and white.) /artist to artist geek moment
The font I used is called Angelic War I was kind of iffy on whether it was clean enough to read or if people would complain about it, so I am delighted that you mentioned it. You should check out that site, I can spend HOURS downloading fonts-- and FREE! :D /cheap
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Date: 2013-07-12 10:42 pm (UTC)I hope you don't mind but I'm going to set that one as my desktop - shit it's gorgeous. Something about the line of his shoulders and the hands in pockets. IDEK.
You rule <3
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Date: 2013-07-13 05:45 am (UTC)Thank you so much! And feel free, just so long as you don't post it anywhere, by all means. I'm thrilled you like it enough to want to! :D
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Date: 2013-07-13 01:49 am (UTC)P.S. *shakes pimpin' pompoms*
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Date: 2013-07-13 02:06 am (UTC)Great work!
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Date: 2013-07-13 06:14 am (UTC)Photoshop is definitely not easy to learn, heck, I've had it for three years and am just NOW getting comfortable using it! What I realized was that it really helps to have a tablet with decent sensitivity (and make sure it's turned on /o\) and to play with your brush setting. All it took for me, was to slightly tweak a default brush and I get pretty damn close to lead pencil like lines. So don't give up and keep on practicing!
I'm no pro by any means, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask. And thank you for the lovely comment, it made my night!
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Date: 2013-07-13 06:26 am (UTC)Thank you for all your help with this, you are a gem!
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Date: 2013-07-13 03:06 pm (UTC)I have a soft spot for angel!Jensen. I'm in love with the shape of his shoulders and his t-shirt ^^
Great work :D
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Date: 2013-07-13 09:10 pm (UTC)I'm ecstatic that you enjoy my angel!Jensen so much
♥
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Date: 2013-07-13 09:37 pm (UTC)Transparent ghost Jared is perfect and I love the textures of the road and sidewalk.
Angel Jensen's wings are glorious and -oh- the beautiful different greens and textures of the trees and bushes (yay for demon face!)
The banner is indeed a wonderfully cut composition; love the wings in that.
(I'm a little confused on how you used 'brushes' for the feathers in Jensen's big drawing and the awesome wip-gif doesn't really clarify, but no matter how you created them, they are amazing!)
Beautiful art, well done!
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Date: 2013-07-13 10:45 pm (UTC)As for your question about the wings, I have a set of wing brushes on photoshop, but they are more so used for tattoos (eraser rub shading and ink smeared lines etc.) They kind of look like stamps, anyway I liked the design of one of them, but the tattoo aspect of them didn't work with the style of my pic, so I used the one as a reference and redrew it as normal cleaned up line art and then c/p'd flipped it to get the pair. So I guess more referenced than modified... my bad.
From there I colored and detailed like I mentioned to
Wing Brush Ref:
(sorry for the HUGE ASS GIF, but I wanted to be able to show the detailing, since it is hard to see smaller.) Hope that helps clarify, and thanks again for commenting!
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