Inktober Day 5 - Sad

[amberdreams]

I should have called today's theme frustration because drawing just got me SO angry today. I was supposed to be sketching this one out in a rough sketch book before trying a proper version in my little Inktober book, but I was just getting crosser and crosser and so thought I'd better stop before I ended up with one huge scribble full of holes. Does that happen to anyone else, dear Arty friends?

Sigh

Anywhere, here's Dean looking sad but not very Deanish. Acutally now I look at it, it's more like he's got a headache. Oh well.

Comments

[chomaisky.livejournal.com]

That's very Dean. I can imagine a beer or whiskey in his left hand...
Frustration happens a lot during drafting. However, it means you care about drawing so that's a good thing.

Mourning

[fairyniamh]

Dean wasn't sure if he was sad, angry, or had a headache. Scratch that, it was all of them; with a smidgen of happy to throw in the chaos soup that was his brain.

See, since the loss of his mother, he had set aside one day of the year to all out bawl over her loss. Later the day would include his father, Bobby, Mikey, Gabriel... and too many lives to fucking list! Sure, he had cried a lot when his mom had died. The last night he had sought comfort from his dad had been the last time he let himself really cry in front of the man.

John was not a good man when he was drunk. The bruise Sammy's bottle left on his shoulder was enough to discourage him from approaching his father. Sure, once he had sobered up he felt bad about it. Still, lesson learned.

See, as the eldest of the brothers, he had been expected to buck up and look after Sam. That meant that he didn't have time to be sad. Thus leading to his annual day of mourning.

You would think that the day would be set in stone, but it wasn't. It was always the day when it all got to be too much and he would break down crying. Which inevitably lead to a massive headache. Fuck, he preferred a hangover to the headache crying left behind.

He got up, cleaned up his face, slapped on his smile, and headed out to Sammy. What his little brother didn’t know, wouldn’t hurt him. At least when it came to Dean's emotions.

~Fin~

(I did it again. I feel Dean's pain though. Yes, it's messy, but it's touching too.)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

thanks me dear, this ended up beint the final as well as the draft. I just lost all patience with it all LOL

RE: Mourning

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Well it's awesome that it's Dean-like enough to get such a great creative reaction! Thank you!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I think you've got some good emotion into this - he looks thoroughly fed up!
:D

[hugemind.livejournal.com]

HA, I don't care what you say, because I still like it. ;)

[big-heart-june.livejournal.com]

I love him too and I esp LOVE his perfectly done hair, freckles, ear !, fingers and man-jewellry! ♥

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw thanks, maybe I got the emotion instead of the likeness! LOL

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Good good! Thank you!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Hee thanks babe, you should have seen me drawing him though. I was a mad woman.

[sillie]

I think it looks great. I wouldn't be able to do it with a pen. *clings to pencils*

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

I can see his sadness clearly here, it's a very Dean pose, I think. Beautiful!!!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I think the pose and the facial expression of frustration and upset is very Dean!

And yes, that DOES happen to me, constantly! I have a snowstorm full of balled up bits of paper when I art!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Hee! It's nice to know other people get art-rage! LOL

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

That's inktober for ya - pushing us out of our comfort zones.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

heh. Dean pose will have to be good enough! :D

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Nope, he looks more sad than head-achy to me, well done!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Art-Rage is a common thing in this house, lol! Steve has learned to ignore the grunts and shouts coming from the office ;)