Big Bang: sources for artwork
Maybe I'll do a big explanation or tutorial on my BigBang artwork later; I had so many ideas and I'm sure I hid some of them too well in the finished pieces *grins*.
I found it to be impossible to mention all the sources I used, simply because I already had an archive of pictures for my own personal pleasure;) and also because during my frantic Google-searches I sometimes forget to keep track. If you notice original material that you are the owner of or know the origin of, tell me and I will credit.
For now I would like to thank the following:
Sources and helpful sites
For all my SPN_J2 BigBang artwork I of course needed pictures of the wonderful Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and additional CW-actors. Here are my favorite sites:
Provocateuse Oxoniensis Screencaps Love-Jensen.COM J-Padalecki.ORG
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For Grimoire by yasmine32068 - Artpost here!
Did you know? A Grimoire is a textbook of magic:) Artist/author Leigh J. MsCloskey made a gorgeous visual essay; I used a page of his artwork as a base.
I had wanted to use my own New Orleans pictures from 1994, but couldn't get rid of me and my brother posing in The French Quarter *grins*, so I had to resort to other people's travelblogs and New Orleans promotional sites:
French Quarter: by jrgts on flickr - via forum on SkyScraperCity
The interior of bookstore Elliot Bay (in Seattle!) is taken from The Kids Book Corner - a site you should definitely check out!
Wings: by Psyche743 on Aviary
Trolley: by Christopher on Picasa. I sneakily changed the advertisement on the side to a promotional picture of The Accidental Husband to get JDM in there (However, he does NOT feature in the story;)
Original characters: standing in for Theodora and Adam Brady are Don DeLillo and Doris Kearns Goodwin, two winners of the 2009 Common Wealth Awards
For my design of magical creature Brownie I used too many different images to mention (start with a search for "doodshoofdaapje") - let me just assure you no animals (or people;) were hurt in creating the picture;) If you can guess who provided the mouth, you get the original fanphoto.
Thankfully I did bookmark the site that shared the delicious pictures -and recipes- of the plate of biscuits (and the cinnamon bun) because I need to make these!
The dandelions were photographed by me:)
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For Real Life: Good For You by octoberxsong - Artpost here!
To illustrate this story I visited a lot of World of Warcraft sites to get into Jared's mindset. The most valuable information was given to me by octobersong, but I also want to credit The WoW-wiki for visuals. The base of the banner is a screenshot from Tinker Town (I think *bites lip*) and for Chad I (ab)used an red haired Gnome.
The picture from Christian Kane was taken from Starpulse and I found Genevieve on a forum of GenevieveCorteseFan.COM
I build the logo for the story -and the divider- from an original WoW logo.
The additional artwork with Jensen is based on a WoW-wallpaper design.
My co-worker S. kindly posed as Jared and I used part of his body to complete the banner. (I won't tell you which part though;)
The photo of the flowers and grass Jared is rolling around in was made by me! (notice a pattern, people?)
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For I Know What A Prince And Lover Ought To Be by amanuan - Artpost here!
When I read this story, set in an AU medieval times, I immediately wanted to reflect that era in my art. I thought of those beautifully decorated medieval books and looked at a lot of them for inspiration. Do a search on Google to see some glorious examples!
For the base I used a contemporary book out of my own collection: the huge XXL about Tom of Finland:)
Parchment for book and map from Andrew C. and Przemyslaw Szczepanski via Stock.Xchng.
The pebbles were taken out of a photo by me. The grass is also mine *g*
There are two castles in the banner; the one behind the text is the citywall in my hometown Zwolle, the other is part of a picture taken from AvocadoTravel.COM; it's Corvinesti Castle in Hunedoara, Romania. (I still have to cross that country off my travel-list; I only made it just across the border in 1995, when two Irish girls I met on the train were refused entry to the country and not wanting to be the only backpacker left, I decided to travel with them - back to Greece. We were forced to get off the train and walk back to the border, from where we hitchhiked to Tessaloniki. Exciting times;)
The map of the kingdoms was drawn by me with coloured pencils and then fiddled with in Photoshop. The compass is mine.
For the kids I used Supernatural Sam and Dean's heads and I put them on the bodies of two boys fighting at a medieval fair on a photo from Sarah via Picasa Webalbums. I kind of broke their arms to make them hold the stick (mine) and handkerchief (mine). Sorry, kids.
The trees in the background are from a photo by me.
Adult Jared and Jensen did pose in front of a ruin, but I dressed them up in knight outfits from Costumes of Nashua.
The horse, rocks and crowns were drawn by me. *takes a bow*
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*Embraces the internet*
Thank you all for sharing materials and inspiration!
And thank you, dear flist and YOU, dear visitor whom's out loud praise and anonymous mocking brought an added joy to this whole BigBang experience :-D
J.
I found it to be impossible to mention all the sources I used, simply because I already had an archive of pictures for my own personal pleasure;) and also because during my frantic Google-searches I sometimes forget to keep track. If you notice original material that you are the owner of or know the origin of, tell me and I will credit.
For now I would like to thank the following:
Sources and helpful sites
For all my SPN_J2 BigBang artwork I of course needed pictures of the wonderful Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and additional CW-actors. Here are my favorite sites:
---------------------------
For Grimoire by yasmine32068 - Artpost here!
Did you know? A Grimoire is a textbook of magic:) Artist/author Leigh J. MsCloskey made a gorgeous visual essay; I used a page of his artwork as a base.
I had wanted to use my own New Orleans pictures from 1994, but couldn't get rid of me and my brother posing in The French Quarter *grins*, so I had to resort to other people's travelblogs and New Orleans promotional sites:
French Quarter: by jrgts on flickr - via forum on SkyScraperCity
The interior of bookstore Elliot Bay (in Seattle!) is taken from The Kids Book Corner - a site you should definitely check out!
Wings: by Psyche743 on Aviary
Trolley: by Christopher on Picasa. I sneakily changed the advertisement on the side to a promotional picture of The Accidental Husband to get JDM in there (However, he does NOT feature in the story;)
Original characters: standing in for Theodora and Adam Brady are Don DeLillo and Doris Kearns Goodwin, two winners of the 2009 Common Wealth Awards
For my design of magical creature Brownie I used too many different images to mention (start with a search for "doodshoofdaapje") - let me just assure you no animals (or people;) were hurt in creating the picture;) If you can guess who provided the mouth, you get the original fanphoto.
Thankfully I did bookmark the site that shared the delicious pictures -and recipes- of the plate of biscuits (and the cinnamon bun) because I need to make these!
The dandelions were photographed by me:)
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For Real Life: Good For You by octoberxsong - Artpost here!
To illustrate this story I visited a lot of World of Warcraft sites to get into Jared's mindset. The most valuable information was given to me by octobersong, but I also want to credit The WoW-wiki for visuals. The base of the banner is a screenshot from Tinker Town (I think *bites lip*) and for Chad I (ab)used an red haired Gnome.
The picture from Christian Kane was taken from Starpulse and I found Genevieve on a forum of GenevieveCorteseFan.COM
I build the logo for the story -and the divider- from an original WoW logo.
The additional artwork with Jensen is based on a WoW-wallpaper design.
My co-worker S. kindly posed as Jared and I used part of his body to complete the banner. (I won't tell you which part though;)
The photo of the flowers and grass Jared is rolling around in was made by me! (notice a pattern, people?)
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For I Know What A Prince And Lover Ought To Be by amanuan - Artpost here!
When I read this story, set in an AU medieval times, I immediately wanted to reflect that era in my art. I thought of those beautifully decorated medieval books and looked at a lot of them for inspiration. Do a search on Google to see some glorious examples!
For the base I used a contemporary book out of my own collection: the huge XXL about Tom of Finland:)
Parchment for book and map from Andrew C. and Przemyslaw Szczepanski via Stock.Xchng.
The pebbles were taken out of a photo by me. The grass is also mine *g*
There are two castles in the banner; the one behind the text is the citywall in my hometown Zwolle, the other is part of a picture taken from AvocadoTravel.COM; it's Corvinesti Castle in Hunedoara, Romania. (I still have to cross that country off my travel-list; I only made it just across the border in 1995, when two Irish girls I met on the train were refused entry to the country and not wanting to be the only backpacker left, I decided to travel with them - back to Greece. We were forced to get off the train and walk back to the border, from where we hitchhiked to Tessaloniki. Exciting times;)
The map of the kingdoms was drawn by me with coloured pencils and then fiddled with in Photoshop. The compass is mine.
For the kids I used Supernatural Sam and Dean's heads and I put them on the bodies of two boys fighting at a medieval fair on a photo from Sarah via Picasa Webalbums. I kind of broke their arms to make them hold the stick (mine) and handkerchief (mine). Sorry, kids.
The trees in the background are from a photo by me.
Adult Jared and Jensen did pose in front of a ruin, but I dressed them up in knight outfits from Costumes of Nashua.
The horse, rocks and crowns were drawn by me. *takes a bow*
---------------------------
*Embraces the internet*
Thank you all for sharing materials and inspiration!
And thank you, dear flist and YOU, dear visitor whom's out loud praise and anonymous mocking brought an added joy to this whole BigBang experience :-D
J.