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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] red-b-rackham.livejournal.com 2016-08-16 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
You are amazing!! :D I LOVE the floating pic of Dean!

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2016-08-16 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
Aw thank you! Glad you like it.