Blood will Flow

Congrats to my lovely author, Euxellis for cracking on and finishing this WIP in spite of exams! I enjoyed dabbling in the DCU for a change, and the Looper idea is a good un!
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Jason Todd, meet Tim Drake...


Process is unexciting:
Researching poses (used a screen cap from the Walking Dead for Tim with the shotgun, no reference used for Jason), sketching and then drawing the final scene in my Arches sketchbook to paint. No progress pics because Flickr doesn't like .heic files and I haven't had time to convert them.

Time for another SPN_J2_Bigbangspn_j2_bigbang! I thought I'd have a quick look back and I've been doing this challenge since 2011 and done 16 artings for different fics, making this art for a cute J2 story by SamAndDean76 samanddean76my 17th! Without further ado....

Story link HERE or click on the banner


Main pictures
NB the second one is a tad spoilery, so you may want to read the story first.
Firstly, nekkid Jared. NSFW warning for a teeny glimpse of peen.( Read more... )

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


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LJ/AO3 name: Amberdreams
Title: Baegay
Pairing: Wincest
Rating: R
Warnings: Bad singing, bare chests

"Dean, it's just a gay club, no reason to freak out."

"I'm not freaking out, Sam. But seriously, I look ridiculous!"

"You're lucky, you get to keep your boots on. I've got to wear these stupid flip flops."

"Sammy! You never mentioned they've got karaoke!"

Many drinks later...

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).

A rare foray across the fandom divide with this year's Marvel Big Bang. I was lucky to snag shinysylver's slow burn Stony fic, Toward the Sun . Not only is the story really good, but shiny was a joy to work with.
A sensitively written AU where Tony survives the End Game snap and Steve doesn't stay in the past, it's a really nice characterful piece that doesn't neglect the rest of the ensemble cast.
Click on the banner to read the story!


The main pic is a scene  that particularly appealed to me.
Tony tracks down White Vision in Sokovia.( Read more... )

It's spooky time again! My first 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)


None of the art is really spoilery.

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A long, long time ago, Marvel Trumps Hate 2020 had an auction to raise money for charity.  The Marvel Art Party on Discord put together a package deal of 9 artists, of which I was one. We were won by the dynamic duo, Mystrana and Greywrites, and after much faffing and deliberation about what to do, I finally managed to finish my offering! Mystrana and Greywrites were happy for us to share with the world, so you can check all the fills in the AO3 collection.

Without further ado, I present Witch Bucky and his familiar, Alpine the cat, flying over some medieval city, in a far distant and happy AU.
First the SFW version with pants


And the NSFW version minus pants

The naked except for boots version came first, pants were added digitally!

After finally making the decision about what to draw, the process was pretty simple.
I had been wanting Bucky to be flying on his broomstick, when I saw some photos taken using a special lens which showed the scene in a kind of inverted global view. I also looked at medieval maps with the building drawn in street view style, and decided to combine the two ideas for the background.
Here's the aerial view without Bucky and co.

It's drawn in pencil, inked then watercoloured. The paper was round but wouldn't fit on the scanner so it got cropped into an ellipse. 😂
Bucky was drawn and painted on a separate piece of watercolour paper then I mashed the two scanned paintings together digitally. I adjusted the colours to reflect the actual colours as the scans leach a lot of the vibrance out. Other than that, there's no digital interferrence with the traditional art.
Here's the Bucky painting with his basket/sack of companions. Up to you whether he or Alpine have bewitched the actual Avengers or Bucky's made the plushies for his cat to play with. Either way, little Plushy Cap is happy to hold onto Bucky's finger...😍

As usual, it's a pleasure to take part in a lovely Gen challenge, this time the Gencest Big Bang. My author, Center of the Galaxy, tempted me with their alternative version of Mystery Spot...Story link HERE!



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