amberdreams | Quicky_bang art for Carousel of Broken Dreams

Artpost: Carousel of Broken Dreams
Artwork by: me!
Warning/Enticement: Half nekkid Dean, 17 year-old floppy haired Sam
Made for:

quicky_bang and

yohkobennington's Carousel of Broken Dreams.
Summary: They say revenge is a plate best served cold. Sam and Dean can't wait to have their feast.

I made a thing and it goes like this:

Here it is large

Here it is without the text

Here's a close up of Dean's face

And Sam's

Thanks to

beelikej for setting up the

quicky_bang, it's a fun idea! And to

yohkobennington for writing psycho knife throwing Sam!

Process:
Ironically, even though the idea of the quicky_bang is to hey, guess what, get things done quick, I thought when I read yohko's story that this was the ideal opportunity to stop fudging and try to work through a photoshop tutorial. There are so many great tutorials on Youtube, and coincidentally, I'd just seen this one by Blue Lightning TV about making a circus poster. So yay! Perfect timing.

Following the instructions he shows how to create those radiating stripes in the background, how to curve text, how to use the stroke tool to do the fancy outlines... so many tricks and treats that I've had to start a little notebook for all the shortcuts and stuff because there's no way I can remember them all! Pity Marty didn't also teach me to double check I typed the title right - in my first version I called it Carnival instead of Carousel! LOL

I saved a few screenshots of my Dean drawing. I didn't save the main poster steps because if you are interested you can just let Marty from Blue Lightning walk you through it!