SPN Eldritch Art Masterpost - Make Angels of Us All.

[amberdreams]

After a long, long time, I finally got to work with the talented monicawoe! Woot!
So in honour of the debut of a lovely new challenge, spneldritchbang, here's my art for Moni's haunting story.
Go and read it right away HERE or click on the banner






Yep, two animations - and one day I'll work out how the heck to do these in PS instead of using online gifmakers of variable quality and with varying levels of success!

Here's the unanimated art

First the Archangel Michael's stained glass - which is watercolour and ink on watercolour paper.



Progress - not mega interesting but I penciled him in first, then inked the outlines with a black waterproof liner, painted him, then added the extra black lines with a thicker liner pen to represent the stained glass.
Thusly:

The shading of the halo into red and the lighting effects in the animation were added in Photoshop.

Young Sam was different. I started him on paper in my sketchbook then thought I really ought to try using the translucent Yupo paper I bought ages ago and haven't touched since.
The original drawing on normal paper

Then the drawing replicated on Yupo paper - obverse

quickreaver's right, Yupo is really nice to draw on in pencil...plus you can then draw on the reverse and add shadows in a way you can't with normal paper. So here's the reverse side. Drawn and blended with a paper stump.


And this is the final drawing with the reverse shading adding emphasis.


I then coloured the scanned picture in PS with gradated steps saved in order to create the animation.


I used pics of young Jared and young Colin Ford as my references for Sam's face - he's supposed to be around fifteen here. And I modeled Michael on Christian Keyes (just 'cause).

Comments

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've just read the fic and I simply had to stop by and tell you are beautiful your art set is! You really captured Sam's youthful features so very well, and the animations work so perfectly. I adore the stained glass images of Michael too; the colours are so punchy and bright.

Thank you for sharing :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! I had to overlay to get the colours brighter after scanning but those are pretty close to the actual painting. Glad you liked it all!

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

I loved it, and what a collab!! The art and fic really painted such a wonderful story. Well done to both of you!

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i love those animations! the pencil drawings of wee!sam are also really good, and the watercolor is perfect for a painting of stained glass.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much - and sorry for the delayed reply!

[equally-dour.livejournal.com]

wonderful work!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you1