Blood will Flow

It's me and amypond45 again, folks! The dynamic duo... LOL  Read the story here on AO3.

Actually I was not very dynamic this time and only managed a single piece of art, but for once it's one I really like quite a lot.

It's a bit spoilery for a scene in the story so you might want to read the fic first.

Hopefully you will all recognise this setting from the show! I was delighted to have the chance to draw one of my all time favourite scenes - I think that whole sequence in Lazarus Rising is so beautifully shot.( Read more... )

This JIB was number 13 and actually puts us back into the right order, and happened at the right time! I decided before the convention that I'd go to the small town of Lucca for a few days, with the intention of doing some plein air sketching/painting.

I'd visited Lucca on a day trip from Pisa back in 2018, and loved it. The town centre is completely surrounded by massive walls and bastions, dating from the 16-17th century, which give it a unique flavour. It has the usual medieval narrow streets, but because of the walls, traffic is even more constrained than usual, and some areas are pedestrianised. The apartment I was staying in could hardly have been more central, literally two minutes walk from the ex and current cathedrals, five minutes to anywhere else. The other great thing about the town is that the walls - ramparts really - are so wide at the top they've been planted with great avenues of trees and there's a road that runs right the way round the town. The only traffic allowed up there is the occasional police car/maintainance vehicles, and bicycles. So it's a lovely place to to to just wander along and soak in the atmosphere.

For once, my plans to art while out and about were fulfilled, so I'm sticking this post into the latest Drawesome challenge of 'draw what you see'. I do have photos too, but this post is all about the sketching.

First day, first sketch. This is in a teeny slim sketchbook, ordinary paper, using a waterproof gel pen. I went for a walk around the walls and stopped here. The church is San Frediano, and the singing I was listening to was from the Palazzo Pfanner. I wasn't actually anywhere near the botanical gardens, in spite of my caption!( Read more... )

I am a bit late doing my own TAE22 entry, which meant I forgot to post a promotion for the event here - but there's still time to register (for free!), and complete and send your own arty postcard! The event is a global one, held every year, and all the art is posted online as well as going into a physical exhibition. This year's is in York in the UK, and the charity the money raised will benefit is The Encephalitis Society. You can find out all about the event HERE.

I wasn't sure what to do this year - for my first one I sent in a fanart watercolour of Sam Winchester, last year I inked and watercoloured a phoenix. So I wanted to do something different. Then I was trawling through Instagram and saw a wire sculpture of Poseidon and felt inspired.

I'm thinking this is more Fangorn than underwater sea god, but it's open to interpretation!
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Another day, another reversebang! My second spn_reversebang is with my old friend yohkobennington who is always an absolute pleasure to work with.

Story link HERE or click on the banner!


I went for something quite different for this one. Here's the prompt( Read more... )

Hiatus over and it's time for a new episode. Link HERE!
In the meantime, here's the art. Hopefully it will intrigue...
Beneath, Beyond, Between


Spoilery art for a scene later in the episode.( Spoiler art )Notes:

Mermay continues with more carbon ink doodles and random stuff.

My original claimant had life happen, so had to pull out, but awesome pinch hitter Yohkobennington stepped in at the eleventh hour. She waved her magic wand and gave me hurt Jensen and heroic Jared, which speaks directly to my id. Thanks me dear!
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The prompt.( Read more... )

This was to draw something using a single line, not lifting pen from paper. I admit, this is my third attempt! It actually needed some forethought and planning about where to start and even then there were still some areas I had to go back over the same place. I'm sure it could be done in a much more clever way but... yeah. I was happy enough with it!

Sam and Dean in one line

Title: Crane
Artist: amberdreams 
Fandom: None
Rating & Category: G, Gen
Medium: Pentel brush pen and watercolour.
Notes: Just a crane (I did think about doing the other kind of crane but I could this chap and he was too appealing.)