Blood will Flow

This is a little bit of a cheat since I actually made this art in 2018, but as I haven't had the inspiration or time to produce something new, I thought I'd recycle this.
It's the Archangel Michael (from Supernatural), in watercolour and ink, and even though I could nit pick and find things I'm not 100% happy with, I'm actually quite proud of this one.

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!


Without the text


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!

It's World Watercolour Month and I've been doing a few outside of the various fandom challenges, so thought I might as well post them here.

I got a nice small square book with an adorable owl cover, so I decided the obvious thing to put in it was birds. It's Arches 200gsm paper, not too many pages and so shouldn't be impossibly daunting to fill. That's the theory anyway!

So far I've done three birdies.
A frequent visitor to our garden at home, the dopey Wood Pigeon. Ink and wash.

Yet to see one in the wild - the barn owl.

Jude the house hen, companion to reapertownusa

I'm still in two minds whether to go for just watercolour, or ink and wash so I think the birds will be vary the options a bit. I may add some ink to Jude, because there's a lot of texture in her feathers...though I am quite liking her like this so, maybe not. 

 My second SPN_J2 BB spn_j2_bigbangis for another of my fave authors and people - zubeneschamali, and as a bonus, one of my fave tropes - superpowers!
STORY LINK finally here! AO3
The banner


The main title page art( Read more... )

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 

This is part of a fandom project to celebrate the Winchester boys reunion in Heaven. You can read Caranfindel's lovely story and see all the other creations on AO3.


Gouache with some digital shadows and lines added. Many thanks to Quickreaver for your assistance!

It's no good, I've had quite a while to contemplate this painting and I still hate it. Even digital fiddling couldn't help fix it as far as I'm concerned, and yes, I know I shouldn't be negative, or over critical - but. I wish I'd had the energy to re-do it. It doesn't do the theme or the fic justice.

Scribble Time for this month's drawesome challenge! First one I've done for ages.
Just a quick effort from last night. Done with Zebra Sarasa gel pen from a comic book cover reference.

I’m quite overdue a post, but I’ve been busy, busy, busy…

Yesterday I had my left eye lasered – a laser capsulotomy because the capsule behind the artificial lens was getting cloudy. I’d been warned this might happen, though I’d been under the impression it was because of the steroid drops, and that it was a kind of clean up thing. In fact it’s something that commonly happens with cataract ops, and it sounds like it should be a one off as it actually makes a hole in the capsule.

It really wasn’t a pleasant thing, even though numbing drops meant I couldn’t really feel much. She put a large contact lens over the eye and then held onto that to keep the eyeball still while she zapped with the laser. It took a while longer than I’d been told, presumably because my capsule was ‘a bit thick’ and I wasn’t enjoying it one bit.

Anyway , it’s done now, and I think it has helped, I’m pretty sure my vision in that eye is sharper now, so the clouding must have been more bothersome than I’d thought.

In happier news, I’ve finished my Bayduck Tapestry giant duck, and she’s gone to Hastings for the trail starting in June. Now I’m working on two giraffes for Edinburgh’s trail. One’s finished and varnished, the other is getting there.

Yes, they are tall! 2.5m, to be exact.

My second SPN cinema is a collab with my frequent and awesome partner in crime, amypond45. It was her choice of movie but I knew I was in good hands, and as always, it was a pleasure to come up with some images for her story. I don't think any of the art is spoilery.

Link to the story on LJ || on AO3
As usual, I didn't do as much as I'd have liked, but it is what it is. At least, unlike amypond, I wasn't battling covid while working on this!



Newcomer Jared


Jared and Jensen receiving plaudits at a formal event/gala dinner


Process
I did the Jared portrait first - pencil sketch, inked with fineliners then coloured with Ohuhu alcohol markers. No idea what I'm doing with the markers so I was pleased how it turned out!

The banner is also a pen and ink drawing, with a touch of coloured ink, then I added text and background digitally
The traditional art version is below.

And that's it - now go read the story if you haven't already!

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!





Initial inking


On my desk with the Poems about You watercolours I used. Just 3 colours in total - Poems' Prussian Blue and Gamboge on the background, and Schminke Desert Green on the face (which is a 2 pigment granulating mix of PR108 and PG26).