J2 Reversebang - Art Masterpost no:1

[amberdreams]

Title: The misadventures of Yngvi and Torold
Artist: amberdreams
Author: milly_gal
Other Pairing(if applicable): J2
Rating: For art PG, for fic Nc-17
Warnings/Spoilers: For art none, for fic - voyeurism
Fic Summary: Jared and Jensen start work on a joint project; a Viking Epic, being filmed in the freezing cold snow covered mountains of Russia. An amorous director, a jealous Jensen, and a sneaky Jared make filming an experience none of them will ever forget.

For the j2_reversebang I got to work with Writer!Milly - holy moly, she's speedy! I think she had the fic written before she'd even claimed the art. No pressure, huh? LOL Anyhow, we had fun working on this one, hopefully it shows!

Plain Banner (clicky to go to the story!)


The original prompt art


The divider

The alternative romance version of the banner!

The woffle about stuff:
I didn't have anything in particular in mind when I did the prompt, I just wanted to try drawing the boys with long hair and Viking gear, so when Milly told me her filming idea I was all for it. But then I kind of ignored the modern angle for the extra art and drew more Viking J2 and some weapons that feature in the story.
The prompt was done on Ingres coloured paper with sanguine and white koh-i-nor pencil, and this is what it looks like before I enhanced the contrast a bit in PS and put a border round it.

Yep, not much different, really. The other two pieces were graphite pencil on white paper (because I'm too worried about messing up my expensive coloured paper, even though I've had some pads of it for more than twenty years and it's high time I used it!)
The banner drawing

The sword and hammer - done with Aquarelle soluable graphite pencils and wash.

I'm afraid in both the drawings of the Js I got Jensen's face wrong, but I didn't have time to draw them again!
There wasn't much process - just drawing from suitable references with varying amounts of success! Oh apart from the banner, which has shading and highlights and colouring done in PS.

Comments

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I loooooove the drawing, with the toned bg, so so much.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

The original?

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

YEP!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yay thankee! It's kind of more like the stuff I used to do many years ago. I think because I wanted to be Sulamith Wülfing. That was when I wasn't wishing I could draw like Charles Keeping, Michelangelo, Alan Lee or Victor Ambrus :D