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amberdreams ([personal profile] amberdreams) wrote2016-08-11 03:06 pm

The Sulphur on Your Sleeve - art masterpost

My second wipbigbang art is for loracine's awesome Dark Angel/SPN crossover (my fave type of crossover, why aren't there more of them?) The Sulphur on Your Sleeve.
Click on the banner to go read the fic!
loracine banner-1.2
If it isn't live yet, it will be very soon
I did an alternative version of the banner, to look more like a tv screen and hopefully those of you who are DA fans will recognise the Eyes Only shout out.
loracine banner-1.2 blue
Moving on, this is kind of spoilery for the story except you have to read the fic to understand what is going on here, so ti doesn't really give anything away.
This is the first idea I had when reading the draft; it was such a cool description and a cool image that I just had to try to portray it.
Loracine-1.3
I know this is a common whinge lately, but yep, you guessed it, I ran out of time, so this was the main picture. What follows is just some detail.
Here's a close up of Dean's face from the main pic
Loracine-1.3 teaser
I wasn't that happy with how it turned out as far as a likeness, but I liked the colouring.
And here are close ups of Dean's and Sam's eyes from the banner.
I hope you can tell whose is whose!
loracine jared eye icon
loracine Dean eye icon

Process:
I used various references and the art is all digital this time. For Dean's eyes I used a Michael Muller Jensen photoshoot, and for Sam's a red carpet photo from a while ago. Dean's floating reference was from a series of photos by the remarkable dancer/photographer Mickael Jou. Look him up, the images he gets are amazing. This is the one I used for the idea for Dean's picture.
*Mickael Jou chained
I only remembered to save a couple of in progress shots from the main pic. Laying down some basic colour...
Loracine-1-1 prog
Adding more layers and more detail...
Loracine-1-2 prog
You'll see I changed the position on Dean's body as well as his head from the ref pic because in this particular part of the story, Dean was floating, and there was no real tension. Hopefully it worked.
Anyhow, that's it. Next - quicky_bang!


[identity profile] twisted-slinky.livejournal.com 2016-08-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow, I just love that main piece! It's gorgeous. (And that photo reference was really cool, too.) I really need to move "watch Dark Angel" closer to the top of my to-do list so I can read some of these awesome crossovers.

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2016-08-12 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
I confess, I've only watched Episode 17 Pollo Loco from Season 1 (because of a certain Mr Ackles) and all of Season 2 for the same reason. Jensen's two characters are the best thing about the series! Alec (Season 2) really reminds me of Dean in many ways -that whole putting on a cocky front, trying to let bravado mask the pain underneath. I totally love Alec. You should try it!

[identity profile] jj1564.livejournal.com 2016-08-12 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You should watch, even S1 as it gives the background to the story, and S2 DEFINITELY! Jensen is so good as Alec, and the episodes he features in most happen to be the best ones!