SPN_J2 BB Hidden in the Right Place - Art Masterpost

[amberdreams]

For the spn_j2_bigbang
Title: Hidden in the Right Place
Author: smalltrolven
Artist: Me!
Pairing: Sam/Dean

Summary: A demon escapes

from Hell to kidnap Dean and makes him forget everything, even himself. Will he

break and give in before Sam can save him? How far will Sam go to

rescue his brother?

Thanks to smalltrolven for her patience with me - I was so slow and everything was very last minute!

Art warnings: Dean in chains, topless - I wouldn't count that as NSWF but some might. ;)

Click on the banner to read the story.

Nobody who knows me will be surprised that the first piece I did was hurt Dean... LOL!

This is the final version, a pencil sketch, coloured and played with in Photoshop. The first version was too dark and gloomy, and the composition and anatomy was awry (cheers quickreaver for the feedback on that). The statue of Bast is from a museum photo.

As I had my paints out for the car bonnet, and I had a lovely Sam image in my head, I thought I'd have a try at a traditional piece for the next illustration. (It's only spoilery if you know the context).

The painting came out ok but I knew I wasn't going to have time to refine it how I wanted, so I photographed it and finished it off in PS.

The process stuff:

There's the Dean sketch before anything else was done to it

For a laugh, here's a gif of me starting on the Sam painting when I should have been doing my car bonnet.

That heap of drawing pads etc on my left that looks quite precarious? Well it was. The whole lot slid less than gracefully to the floor later on, which meant (horror of horrors) I had to do some sorting and tidying up before I could carry on. I'm glad to say that the laptop was ok. That stonehenge painting on the chest of drawers in the background was a dreadful attempt at using acrylics that I did when I was about 16. And yes, that is an Action Girl sitting up there, looking very slumped because her limbs are all a bit wobbly now. But she, too, is very old.

Here's the naked painting before PS - as you can see, it still needs a fair bit of work! The photos don't show it very well, but I've used iridescent paint on parts of the picture, so it does look quite cool when the light hits it right.

Comments

[herminekurotowa.livejournal.com]

Jesus, woman, how do you do it, blowing my mind AGAIN? This is amazing!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Your mind was blown indeed - you wrote words instead of giffing! Thanks petal!

[herminekurotowa.livejournal.com]

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

ha ha that's my girl.

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Wow! I'm speechless... you're incredible, sweetie. Wow, just wow!!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw and you are too kind. Mwhah!

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Honour to whom honour is due as my dad always said :-))

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Wow - I love Dean's pose and the emotion that you get from the body language alone! The Sam painting is absolutely gorgeous, and I love how you used colour in that piece (especially the touches in his hair!) You make me tied just seeing all of the work you're doing at the moment (I hope your summergen is coming along nicely. I'm sprucing mine up ready for submission) take care :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Don't talk about summergen! Argh. I need to knuckle down on it tomorrow or I'll be begging for an extension!

[smalltrolven.livejournal.com]

That is so much fun to see you actually painting in-process to the awesome Sam art you ended up with. Thank you thank you so much for all the art for my story, I love it to pieces.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm really pleased there was a fic left to claim and that I was lucky enough to get you!

[red-b-rackham.livejournal.com]

YOU HAND PAINTED THIS?



This is mind-blowingly gorgeous. I don't even know what to say - this is so coooool!!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I did indeed, thank you! I'm trying to do more actual painting, so hopefully will get better with practice!

[marciaelena.livejournal.com]

Oh, bb, these are fantastic. Gorgeous and so atmospheric. I love your use of color in these, how you managed to paint both shadow and light. I think these might be my favorites among your art.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Gosh, thank you so much!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Cool dynamic banner with how you placed the title and have it reflected in the wet road!
Oh no, hurt Dean:( Pretty colouring and sparkles in the Sam piece (before and after your digital fiddling:)

Also: I love your timelaps WIPs <3

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I may be getting addicted to time lapsing things LOL! Glad you like the banner - being an expert in such things!

[phoenix1966]

I especially love the one of Sam, but I am a hopeless sucker for him casting spells. And the gif of you hard at work was a lovely treat!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Ha ha I think I'm getting addicted to making daft timelapse gifs...

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

DOOOOOD, this is all awesome. I love Dean's body posture; it's SO expressive. And the colors of the painting... *wolf whistle*

You rocked it, woman!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, I can do colour! LOL!! Still haven't tried my Yupo paper - I need to have a go with that next, methinks.
How's your draft going...?

[stargazingchola.livejournal.com]

OMG!! I LOVE ALL THE PIECES, especially the painted one!! 😍😍😍 i love the gif!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Painting is hard...

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

the light in the first pic is amazing! it's like he's spotlit so we don't miss any of his arm and shoulder muscles. and i can kind of see some of the iridescent paint on the painting. it looks gooooood.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

That was the aim with the lighting so thanks for that!

[sillie]

Oh, these are so lovely. I especially love your Dean piece. Awesome work. ♡♡

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Cheers me dear!

[dollarformyname.livejournal.com]

As usual, your work is ah-mazing--that first image is super intriguing (mmm, hurt!Dean *licks him*)--but that Sam painting is really something else! THE COLORS. THE GLOW. Wonderful job, you! <333

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks so much! It's always extra nice to get a comment from a proper artist :D

[dollarformyname.livejournal.com]

*looks around for a proper artist* Lol, no way. What you can do with a paintbrush is, like, magical to me. *waves hands everywhere* *snoops around for the source of your sorcery while you're distracted*

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

when you find that magic, let me know! LOL

[mific]

Ooh, great colours!

[mekare]

I LOVE the colours in both Sam pieces, the digital and traditional version. Also that gif is somehow funny :-)

YUm hurtDean is always a plus.

[meus_venator]

I am always shocked at how little reference there is out there for kneeling men. It's like there is a google moratorium on letting images like that be scene. So kudos to you for adding to the kneeling men library : )))
Great job. I really like the sparkles in Sam's casting bowl and I love the slick road with the Impala zooming down it. Great job BB.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I've been collecting pose references for ages but yes, finding good kneeling ones is hard! I found this app for my iPad called magicposer which is really useful.

And thank you!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Do you take ANY time off, any? At all?! LOL! I love that the car bonnet is RIGHT THERE and you're all, NOPE - SAM! Speaking of, lovely set, I really really love both hand done pieces, they're so different from each other but really work well together ♥

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

You might argue (and Paul does) that all i've got is time off... LOL
Glad you like 'em!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

LOL! No, see, we SEE all the shizz you do with that time off, so you're the hardest worker out of the lot of us, lol!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

GORGEOUS! I especially love the kneeling fig. The posture is SO emotive!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Two comments? *grin*

[whiskygalore.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous art!!! I especially adore the one of Sam, such beautiful colours! And I love your gif, lol!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The gif was a by product of the car bonnet painting but hey, why look a gift camera in the mouth, hey? LOL

[deezy-y.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beautiful artwork. Kudos!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you so much, and apologies for being so slow to reply to you!

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