Drawesome - week 2 - Villainous

[amberdreams]

Last week I did Dean, so this week it's Sam's turn. The prompt was a word - villainous. So I had to try Samifer, and then I had to gif it. I'm still not very slick at this animation business but it's fun.
Teaser

Gif!

Here's the final frame as a still picture

And here's some of the process:
I did it all in Photoshop, in spite of having lots of new lovely paper and pretty pens to try out. *sigh*
I used a cardboard texture as my virtual paper, and used a fuzzy brush for some shading, layered it, multiplied it, added a dash of colour burn and a few lines on top.



Then I futzed with this background from a Season 4 BTS shot of Sam because I liked the colours and the red sign. I used Sam's face in this pic as a rough reference for my Samifer's face too, though obviously the expression is different.

And that's about it. I layed up a bit more to add the red eyes and a bit of highlighting, then saved 4 different versions of the final pic to create the gif.

Comments

[big-heart-june.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! and i think your gif turned out awesome! ♥

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kalliel]

This is so cool! I really love the shot in the gif just before his eyes go full red, and it'st just the smallest glint of light presaging the transition. And I love how vivid and detailed the eyes are in general, coupled with the subtle red highlights at his nose and lips. Amazing. <333

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The eyes turned out well, I thought, so thank you! You are eagle-eyed noticing the nose and lips, I toned that right down :D

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

Awesome work so cool

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

GORGEOUS!!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

Scarily nice!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Glad you think so! :D

[somer.livejournal.com]

YES!!! This is perfect and gorgeous! LOVE IT!!!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is fabulously creepy!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Excellent, that was what I was hoping for!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I love it - he looks very sinister there!!
It's really interesting to see the process as well :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I can only post a little bit of the process, it would be too boring to see all the layers and steps :D

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

Cool, as always!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you, as always :D

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

And yet MORE smexxy! The animation is super cool. Aren't they, at once, frustrating and fun to make??

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Evil smexiness... :D I'm sure with practice I could get better at this animation malarkey... if I had the patience!

[goss]

I can see it! Nice. \o/

The eyes are so pretty! I love the glowy effect. Animated gifs are such a fun component to add to drawings. ^___^

P.S. I love the process pics, especially the first one, which reminds me of that cool scene in The Mummy where the sand forms into a face.

[amberdreams]

Ooh I hadn't thought of that for that first one, but now you say it... Thanks!

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, this is wonderful! I especially love that animation, it works so well *shivers*

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

*grin* thank you! A shiver is the reaction I was hoping for. :D

[fireheart13.livejournal.com]

Love it!! Those eyes!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad you like the eyes!

[hugemind.livejournal.com]

Oooo, this is awesome!! <3

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

the animation is suuuuper creepy, and his eyes are really fab.

also, thank you for giving me an excuse to use this icon. :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ha ha thank you and love the icon!

[sexycazzy.livejournal.com]

Nice!!! :) I loved the still picture more than the gif (it was really good but the eyes *shudders*)

:-D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ha ha well that is also a compliment of sorts, glad you found it creepy!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Looks pretty damned slick to me, hun! I'm in love!

[tarlanx]

Love this GIF so much! Love how you created it :)

(I thought I had left a comment when I saw it weeks ago!)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh well thanks so much for coming back to add one now! Much appreciated.