Remember the Night - Reverse Bang art masterpost

[amberdreams]

My first of two spn_reversebang artings, and this was my first completed art submission too. I was lucky enough to get snaffled by morrezela, who then said she wanted to write one of my favourite tropes, amnesia fic. So double yay!
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Alternative art Links: AO3 | Tumblr
Fic Link(s): LJ | AO3

This was my original prompt

It's a total id-art, I just wanted ninja Jensen! I'm so shallow... LOL. Plus the background turned out in my fave colours...
So then morrezela wrote the story and I had to do this Jared pic - Jensen's view from his roof top perch. Nothing spoilery here.

I forgot to add this close up of Jensen (in case anyone's interested in the freckles, you know...

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Process part:
This was my usual mishmash of traditional and digital, messing with photos and my own stuff.
So the prompt pic was made by using a photo of a roofscape I found via an image search.

I fiddled with PS filters using the edges tool, then overlaid it with a nice texture I've had saved for a while, called #099 by cloaks.
This was the ref I used for Jensen's pose and costume, which I then adapted to suit me.Couldn't have Jensen's pretty face covered now, could we!

Here's Jensen in progress - all drawn and coloured digitally in PS6. Oh yes, the griffin head is from the Crysler Building! I'll always remember that from Ghost Busters.

Jared is from a charcoal sketch I did, then refined a little bit. I photographed it then coloured it and added his body in PS

I cheated on the background. I used a window pic I found on an image search (again). I cut out the middle window and created Jared's interior. Here's the full pic.

and here's the original painting by Edward Hopper, called Night Windows.

Big cheat, huh? One day I won't leave things to the last minute and I will make my own backgrounds. Oh! Did you see that flying pig?

Comments

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Oh Amber, this is so very cool! Ninja Jensen is a great idea (muscled arm for the WIN) and then you made such a good prompt out of it including Jared's businesscard. I love the background of the city a lot (and how you changed the angle between the prompt and the final version is so clever) and I'm glad you talked about your process here. I love playing with the PS filters when sketching, but never quite know what to do with them for actual art, this is such a perfect use of the edges *strokes screen* plus the colours are my favorites too;)
I really like how you combined your (re)sources into your own creation; the pov of Jared is just right and I love what you did with the window above his head.
Last but not least thanks for including the griffin head and revealing where it's from, I knew it looked familiar:)
Cool cool stuff <3

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I haven't used PS filters that much, I think this was the first time I tried the edges one, and they seem to do quite different things to the filters in GIMP. It's scary how much time I can waste spend experimenting! Thanks for such a lovely comment, I'm glad you liked all the different bits.