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

[indiachick.livejournal.com]

Ooh I love the one where Dean is reading away. That's really beautiful in its soft palette of colors. And the texture for the Azaleas one is very nice too! Grass and hair are two of my absolute least favorite things to try on Photoshop but your grass looks so perfect and the color gradience is lovely! Great job :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I enjoyed doing the grass, sometimes I enjoy doing hair too, so maybe we are diametrical opposites there... LOL