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amberdreams ([personal profile] amberdreams) wrote2013-11-08 07:33 am

Shadows - S/D Minibang Art Masterpost

My second artings in the the 3rd annual samdean_otp minibang challenge are for the lovely roxymissrose and her fic Shadows.  Read it here.
Summary: Season one background.  Dad's somewhere unknown, Dean's bone-tired and weighed down knowing that Sam is counting down the minutes until he can leave. Dean's a hell of a big brother, so he does Sam a favor and jumps ship first. What Dean doesn't know is that he's carrying a souvenir of his last hunt; it's hiding in his dreams.
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An illustration of a more peaceful scene. Dean's reading while his new friends fish in the nearby lake.
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I did a set of dividers
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And finally:
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The boys together, leaving town.

Some throwaway bits:
Dean walking scribble!
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and the town sign on its own
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The technical bits:
Dean reading is drawn and painted in Photoshop, without a reference. I did some overlay effects in GIMP because I still haven't worked out how to do all that in PS. Dean walking was also scribbled in Photoshop, using a screen cap from Episode 1 of Season 8 as a reference. The Title page/banner is GIMP, using screenshot photo-cut-outs of Sam and Dean, various smoke brushes and I drew the grass myself in Photoshop (because the brushes in PS are lovely for tapering effects).
The final picture was again done in a mixture of GIMP and PS. The lighting effect is a texture by cloaks. I drew the town sign from a photo I found of a real sign from Alaska.
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[identity profile] tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com 2013-11-09 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
the smoke in the banner is pretty fabulous - also the grass and the fact that sam's face is lit but dean is all silhouette - and i love the pic of dean reading. he looks so relaxed and peaceful, and how often does that happen?

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2013-11-09 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you - and yes, it made a nice change to have a Dean-down-time scene to illustrate!