amberdreams | Summergen reveal

Title: You want a better story. Who wouldn’t?
Creator: Amberdreams
Recipient: Tigerlilynoh
Rating: PG13
Word Count or Media: Traditional and digital art
Warnings: Could be seen as MCD, angst
Author's Notes: Words by Richard Siken, voicing thoughts in Castiel’s head, perhaps.

Summary: Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.
I turned my back on the story. A sense of superiority.
Everything casts a shadow.
Your body told me in a dream it's never been afraid of anything.

This was a large acrylic painting that didn't work terribly well on its own, so after photographing it and looking at it for a while, I made some adjustments in Photoshop, assisted be some really helpful feedback from quickreaver.

So some of the scratchy texturing is digital, and there's some digital painting in the lines.

Before I tried painting, I did a drawing using water soluable graphite. I'm including it here because it kind of reflects the prompt better than the painting does - in that tigerlilynoh mentioned Castiel protecting Sam with his wings. The feathers got a little lost in the painted version.