Blood will Flow

Realised I'd forgotten to cross post here! So this is a bit of a catch up.

So fun to take part in a new event aimed at bringing all sides of fandom together, the SPN ProShip Big Bang. Hopefully it will become a fixture in the SPN calendar. Many thinks to the mods for setting it up and making it such a welcoming place.
My author wrote an interesting AU spin on the Winchesters and their destiny, make sure to check it out HERE on AO3!


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I started off thinking I'd do something in watercolour, but I kept working on my initial sketch of Cas and Dean trying out some new coloured pencils and ended up liking the effects I was getting, so ran with the coloured pencils for the Crowley side too.

The timing of the bang wasn't the best for me, as this time of year is when loads of design deadlines fall for the sculpture trails, so I only did the two drawings in the end, mashing them together to form a single image.

Descended_from_Hufflepuffs was a pleasure to work with, and I enjoyed their take on the Winchester brother's unbreakable bond!

Drawesome is a friendly, multifandom art community, and sets a monthly challenge. I haven't actually managed to do a fill for an age, but am just scraping in at the end of this one. 😂

Here's a charcoal drawing of an African dryad.



For those who like to know - it's on a roughish 100% cotton rag paper which I wouldn't use again for this media, it didn't work that well. I used ordinary charcoal, a blending stump (and my hand!) and a kneaded eraser.
Inspiration - mainly Adam Riches scribbly art style 

I've been doing various little challenges via Instagram artists in an attempt to practice new things, like gouache and watercolour techniques.
Firstly there's the Pantone challenge by Bigbluetang, where she sets a pantone colour and we try and do something arty on a square of that colour. I have a box of 100 Pantone postcards so I'm using those. So far I've done a few, with big gaps in between (Bigbluetang is doing one a day for 30 days!)
The surface is rather shiny so it's not the easiest to paint on, plus it's a bit small (about 2.5 inches square), so they are varying in their successfulness.
This is one I did today. I'm not over fond of it, but it's ok I suppose.( Read more... )

i'm feeling rather sleepy and putting it down to the course of antibiotics I'm on for my tooth implant. I don't think of dentistry as surgery but the info sheet the dentist gave me talks about post surgery actions so I suppose it was. Over an hour of jaw achingly unpleasant drilling and bone strengthening... yeah, I wouldn't particularly choose to do this again for fun. LOL

Anyway, art-wise, I've been doing birthday art for my friend Lois, who's into foxes big time, but also loves the esoteric and Green Men. So I thought I'd combine the two for her card, and did some watercolours for her.
Here's the fox sketch

and here's the finished watercolour.

I actually managed to resist adding linework when I'd done with the watercolours, which makes a change. 😁

These are my Roman Szmal colours, and I really like them. I'd definitely recommend these for anyone looking at starting watercolours - they are great quality, but also exceedingly good value for money. They are Polish and handmade with honey as a binder, so some pans are quite sticky, but that also makes them very easy to activate. The colours are all rich and a lot of them are single pigments which is good. They also have some gorgeous granulating mixed pigment colours. All the paints are full pans, and I think in the US they are even cheaper than in the UK - you can buy them via Jackson's art supplies, or in Europe there's a Spanish seller, Artemiranda, whose prices were comparable. They work out about half the cost of brands like Daniel Smith but all the reviews I've seen from expert watercolourists say the quality is just as good, and the range of colours to choose from is really good too.

*waves from lockdown* hope everyone is doing ok!

I'm actually quite busy at the moment, which feels weird when most people I know aren't. Mind you, once this elephant is done, I will be looking around for things to fill the days...

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It's been a while.
Trying to capture Jared's cute little nose.( Read more... )