SPNJ2 BB Art Master Post for Tsuki_no_bara - Quartet for a Haunting

[amberdreams]

Something about tsuki_no_bara's fic summaries must appeal to me because once again her story was top of my pick list, and I was lucky enough to snag it too!

Story link HERE!

I usually do a banner but left it too late this time, so I'll jump straight in with the main picture. I won't say too much because the images by themselves aren't spoilery but if I explain, they will be and I want everyone to enjoy reading the fic first.

Here's Jensen, sitting on his bed on the stage of the abandoned theatre.


The second piece is a sketch Jensen made of Jared, on a page from one of his music composition books.


Process:

I started from the stage scene, an image which just jumped out at me and I really wanted to try it. Initially I had some ambitions to create a diorama using a box and some transparent watercolour film I'd found, but I couldn't work out how to use the acetate, and my construction skills are next to zero, so I ended up with my usual pencil on watercolour paper and did the scene in two parts.
I drew Jensen (Ross in the story) first, using all sorts of references from mattresses to lanterns. I also forgot initially that Ross in the story has longer hair.
So first sketch with short hair:

Starting to watercolour with the longer hair

I then painted the stage separately, because the scale of the Jensen pic was too large to fit the stage around him and give the sense of depth I was after.


I melded the two pics together in Affinity (a Photoshop type software but 100x cheaper - highly recommended!). And that was it really. I did a similar melding for my Jared sketch - drawn in blue pencil on white paper, then using multiply layers I added the textured paper and the music lines.

Comments

[kazluvsbooks.livejournal.com]

gorgeous work lovely!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Cheers me dear! 💕