Happy Birthday Indiachick! Gift art.

[amberdreams]

Well it's already tomorrow in Kerala, so I reckon it is not too early to call this 26th April!
A little birthday gift to one of my favourite, most imaginative ficwriters and lovely girl indiachick - inspired by the beautiful poem Tell it Like it is.
Hope you have a totally spectaculacular birthday!
Preview (the drawing with contrast adjusted and a few minor fiddles in photoshop)





In the poem, Dean is Charon, ferrying souls of the dead to Hades.
I coloured the drawing in PaintTool Sai and then achieved the overall effect with a texture by musymas on Flickr.

Comments

[indiachick.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD. This is wonderful. YOU are wonderful! I only saw the preview at first and was squeeing then, but the colour version! It's just beautiful (the freckles! the stubble! <3) Dean should keep the hood, it becomes him.

Thank you for this lovely gift, Amber! <333

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Well your writing is a gift so this is just a little thank you for that! *smoochy hugs you*