Glittering Prizes - spn_j2 Big Bang art masterpost

[amberdreams]

Woo hoo! My first spnj2 art masterpost has arrived! This was my pinch hit for the lovely rockstarpeach. It's a J2 romance with hooker Jensen and adorably dorky Jared, and who could resist that premise? Not me...
So you can read the story here or on the teaser, and see the art in situ. There are no spoilers for the story in this set, unless you count a bedroom scene which you know is inevitable, right?
Teaser

Herewith the banner

Followed by a couple of text/chapter dividers
and

And the bedroom scene - fairly SFW as they aren't doing the dirty and have their undies on

The whole black and white thing was actually an accident. As you may know, I am a sucker for colour, but I was playing with the alleyway background photo reference for the main pic, and one of the fiddles resulted in what looked to me quite a stunning noire backdrop for my idea of Jensen's silhouette. Thus I ended up running with the whole set in monochrome for a change. The story itself has some dark moments but is generally much lighter in mood than you might expect from the art, so don't be put off!

And for the eagle-eyed amongst you - yes, that is a real TV Guide cover from 1998 with Jensen in DOLs. I found is doing a google search for 1990s TV guides - there's a guy on Flickr who has a virtual catalogue of covers!
Sources for other things - a google image search for male prostitutes gave me the jeans stuffed with money (which was so good I had to use it)

Here's the alleyway photo (again, a google search)

And the photo ref I used for the boys in bed (no ref for their faces hence the usual problem with prettification etc! LOL)

Comments

[soserendipity.livejournal.com]

Lovely, lovely art set! The banner is just stunning. Love all your choices: black and white, contrast setting, silhouette, font - perfect in every way!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! Happy accidents are for the win, it would seem!