Shadows - S/D Minibang Art Masterpost

[amberdreams]

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.


An illustration of a more peaceful scene. Dean's reading while his new friends fish in the nearby lake.


I did a set of dividers






And finally:

The boys together, leaving town.

Some throwaway bits:
Dean walking scribble!

and the town sign on its own

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.

Comments

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

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?

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you - and yes, it made a nice change to have a Dean-down-time scene to illustrate!