amberdreams | Spn_bigpretzel - A Home for Scared Rabbits

spn_bigpretzel have a fic'n'art exchange going on, and I had the pleasure of arting for

thursdaysisters's wacky cracky tale of sumptuous weirdness - A Home for Scared Rabbits. Read it HERE!

Teaser

Main pic

Closer look at Dean and Frankie

Process/progress shots
I started off with the idea of trying to reproduce some of the feel of the original editions of Alice in Wonderland with those pen and ink drawings. From there I found a nice blank book photo and that became my base. The Dean picture is from a scene in the fic where he submits to having make up applied, and when you read the story you'll find our why he's dressed as the Brave Tin Soldier...

I used a mixture of photo refs for the positions and both Sam and Dean's costumes.
I sketched with grey lines in one layer, then tried to do the nice crisp black in another, then I used a variety of photoshop brushes to shade the pic. For the book plate page, I used a border from an old book and rejigged it to fit on my page, cutting out the roundel so I could insert the Bunny. Then because there was a dearth of Sam, I added a wee Sam floating away on a dandelion seed and a significant toadstool.

As usual, it didn't end up quite how I imagined, but I kind of like it anyway. It was certainly a lot of fun coming up with something visual for a crack!fic instead of something angsty!