DCBB art master post - Crazy Diamonds
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amberdreamsArt for this year's Dean Cas Big Bang, for pantheonofdiscord's story Crazy Diamonds.
Teaser (click to read the story on AO3)
The Art post is also on AO3.
I'll post the art in the order I drew them - so first up is old and young Dean. I had thought about this being a banner, but then changed my mind, and now it's just a symbol of the story's key element - the time swap of the two Deans.
And then I drew Castiel and decided to make a gif.
Here's the Castiel art, with past and present Cas split down the middle.
And here's Present Cas on his own
I was actually really pleased how this half of him turned out!
The process part.
I drew the three characters in HB pencil first, then after scanning and starting the digital painting, I decided a) the likenesses weren't really good enough, and b) the drawings in solely HB pencil were a bit wishy washy. So I got the drawing pad out again and added some shading/detail using a Faber Castel polychromos pencil in Indian Red. I hoped it would make them look more like they should - it didn't really work but heck. It'll have to do.
The scanning leaches most of the colour out so I popped these in PS, duplicated the layer and multiplied to get this result, which is more like the actual paper version.
What else? I coloured them in PS, I created the diamond shape cut out, downloaded some wallpaper that looked like Bobby's to create the impression of one Dean being in Bobby's study while the other Dean is in the grey corridors of the bunker. The references I used for the faces were these ones. It was interesting trying to exaggerate Jensen's aging process as the bugger really hasn't changed much at all!
Cas screencap thanks to Home of the Nutty
Promos from Seasons 1 and 12
Teaser (click to read the story on AO3)
The Art post is also on AO3.
I'll post the art in the order I drew them - so first up is old and young Dean. I had thought about this being a banner, but then changed my mind, and now it's just a symbol of the story's key element - the time swap of the two Deans.
And then I drew Castiel and decided to make a gif.
Here's the Castiel art, with past and present Cas split down the middle.
And here's Present Cas on his own
I was actually really pleased how this half of him turned out!
The process part.
I drew the three characters in HB pencil first, then after scanning and starting the digital painting, I decided a) the likenesses weren't really good enough, and b) the drawings in solely HB pencil were a bit wishy washy. So I got the drawing pad out again and added some shading/detail using a Faber Castel polychromos pencil in Indian Red. I hoped it would make them look more like they should - it didn't really work but heck. It'll have to do.
The scanning leaches most of the colour out so I popped these in PS, duplicated the layer and multiplied to get this result, which is more like the actual paper version.
What else? I coloured them in PS, I created the diamond shape cut out, downloaded some wallpaper that looked like Bobby's to create the impression of one Dean being in Bobby's study while the other Dean is in the grey corridors of the bunker. The references I used for the faces were these ones. It was interesting trying to exaggerate Jensen's aging process as the bugger really hasn't changed much at all!
Cas screencap thanks to Home of the Nutty
Promos from Seasons 1 and 12