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amberdreams ([personal profile] amberdreams) wrote2021-10-20 09:48 pm

SPN Eldritch - Shadow's Disguise art masterpost

It's spooky time again! My first [livejournal.com profile] spneldritchbang is for AnOddSock and a beautifully creepy story that hit lots of my buttons...
May I present Shadow's Disguise (link will be live soon)
2021 Oddsock Eldritch banner

None of the art is really spoilery.

The main pic
2021 Oddsock Eldritch Sam & Dean
Sam comes back from his morning run and talks to Dean, who's been chopping wood.

The banner without the text
2021 Oddsock Eldritch banner

The art journey! (Everything's a journey these days, after all)
The main picture is in my cold pressed Etchr sketchbook. Drawn in brown coloured pencil then inked, then coloured with watercolours in a limited palette of just six colours.
Sketching
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There's a video of part of the inking but it's normal speed, so if you want to watch but don't want to wait forever, you can speed up playback on YT. I didn't video the painting because my set up isn't great.

Early stages of the watercolours
oddsock scene progress

I used the some of the same colours for the banner - Mayan green, Mayan blue, carmine, indian yellow and iron oxide - on a watercolour paper block rather than the sketchbook, because I wanted to do a lot of wet on wet. I threw some salt at it too. The centre was masked with tape then I inked and painted the wee house. The centre pic is about 2.5" across, in case you're curious about the scale. 😁
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[personal profile] meus_venator 2021-10-21 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
WOW, you are really rocking the lovely watercolour. Beautiful work here, so much texture and you've got the boys down cold. Lovely work.

[identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com 2021-10-21 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! So happy you think I caught their likenesses.