Happy Birthday Quickreaver! Arty stuff

[amberdreams]

Many happies to the lovely and mega talented quickreaver. Your presence is a boon and a blessing in our lives!
Here's a birthday Sammy/Saint Sebastian for you - hurt purely for your pleasure.
chomaisky recommended I fiddle with it and helped me gain this final, contrasted version, but I've included the earlier versions for giggles, and because it looks like a sequence.





For those with an interest in such things, I started with this painting of Saint Sebastian for the posture reference. I had in mind something much more Beardsley-eque but when I drew the tree (in biro on paper) and started playing around with it in PS, it turned into something much less decorative. I should probably have used a reference for Sam's face.

Comments

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

the tree looks like antlers which makes me think of the creepy man-stag from hannibal. this is not a bad thing! i love sam's face, and the way he's kind of hunched over, and i think chomaisky's high-contrast suggestion was a good one. it makes for a very dramatic pic.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The tree/antler thing is very likely because I just mainlined seasons 1 & 2 of Hannibal, thanks to chomaisky's powers of persuasion... :D