The Song of the Ravens - spn_j2 big bang art masterpost

[amberdreams]

My second spn_j2_bigbang art post is for a pretty epic fic by winchesterpooja - The Song of the Ravens. I don't use the word epic lightly - pooja's taken on creating an AU after episode 3.15, and an alternate of season 4, with the added twist of the boys being separated. To retell a whole season in a completely new way was no mean task, and I'm looking forward to reading the whole fic uninterrupted as we've both been working up to the wire on this one!
Click on the banner to read the story on AO3

Summary: With barely two weeks remaining for Dean to go to Hell, Sam isn't coping, and Dean is hell-bent on making it all seem like small consequence. After all this, a mysterious string of deaths, and a subsequent case in Texas was all they needed to hammer in the final nail in the coffin. Interfering with this case proves detrimental to Sam and Dean, as they're left looking for each other in ways that they never expected, against odds that they can't even begin to imagine.

Will they find each other in time, or will the circumstances of their separation become an advantage to other evil forces?

The rest of the art:

Chapter header

And two POV markers

Dean and Castiel kiss

A scene from near the end of the story

And icons (shown large here)




The processy stuff:
The banner was the first piece I worked on - it's all drawn in PS using a pencil brush I hadn't tried before.Got to say, it was hard work, much more difficult using pencil digitally than using a real pencil!
The photo refs are promos from Season 6, you'll probably recognise them.
Here's the stages I went through to get from this:

to this (which for some reason I really, really like):

to starting to colour (in Sai and PS):

The chapter header was drawn in biro on paper, photographed then painted in PS and Sai. Here's the drawing.

Then the scene in the car (NB not the Impala!) was done in PS and painted in Sai
Concept sketch

Starting to draw it in detail in the same style as the banner

then I decided it would look better if you could see more of the car - like a camera shot

So then I erased all the excess parts, and coloured it. The texture is card6 from a pack by lost&taken.
The ravens in the banner are from a piece of sculpure by Aric Jorn.

Phew...that was a long one!! Hope y'all like the art and have fun reading the story!

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I try and remember to save a few of the steps along the way now, because i love seeing other people's so much! :D
Glad you like these, thanks for stopping by! :D