Art: An Unkindness of Crows (G)
For the deancasbigbang Challenge, and reticentric's story "An Unkindness of Crows" which is an AU based on the movie "The Crow". The story is only Reticentric's first time writing D/C, and it is long, action-packed, full of emotion - and from an illustrator's pov, just chock-full of scenes I wanted to paint (though painting Cas in the iconic sad-clown face paint turned out to be a challenge!).
Thank you to quickreaver and sillie82 for their very helpful art beta and advice.
In the story, Cas and his sister Anna murdered, and Cas has been returned to wreak revenge, and Anna appears as a ghost.
Cas in his destroyed apartment with the Crow, and his charcoal sketches of Anna and Dean. Quickreaver pointed me towards the font used (Thank you!). There is my usual symbolism in this, plus I wanted it to be reminiscent of the promo photos from the movie.
Here Cas has defeated his enemies and is kneeling by his grave when Anna arrives to take him to heaven. In this painting, I wanted the scene to be all "Hallelujah!! Morning is broken!" colourwise, but Cas to look sad and weary by contrast.
Finally , a Dean/Cas scene (I kept getting side tracked with wanting to paint all the other interesting scenes, too :D) Dean has been injured and is recovering in hospital when Cas visits him. In this scene Cas is saying "feel my heart beating": Dean is surprised. (I got frustrated with the emotions in this painting until Reticentric reminded me that this scene is in Dean's pov, whereas everything else in this set is from Cas' pov. My subconcious had it right after all :D). Despite being a hospital, I wanted joyful colours and hints of rebirth in this scene, hence the blues and greens.
The following 2 sets of sketches are meant to be Cas' charcoal sketches (several of which I used on the cover). I used a couple of digital charcoal brushes (a fine one and a large soft one ) and a blending stub for these, and did them very quickly to get the right look.
Finally, a last minute bonus sketch. When Cas and Dean meet, Dean is tied up. I figured that probably made an impression on Cas, who probably sketched this scene too. I used a digital 2b pencil for this instead of the digital charcoal(to get a bit more control).
I don't normally do banners and extras, but I thought I might try this time:
Crossposted here (
comments).
Thank you to quickreaver and sillie82 for their very helpful art beta and advice.
In the story, Cas and his sister Anna murdered, and Cas has been returned to wreak revenge, and Anna appears as a ghost.
Cas in his destroyed apartment with the Crow, and his charcoal sketches of Anna and Dean. Quickreaver pointed me towards the font used (Thank you!). There is my usual symbolism in this, plus I wanted it to be reminiscent of the promo photos from the movie.
Here Cas has defeated his enemies and is kneeling by his grave when Anna arrives to take him to heaven. In this painting, I wanted the scene to be all "Hallelujah!! Morning is broken!" colourwise, but Cas to look sad and weary by contrast.
Finally , a Dean/Cas scene (I kept getting side tracked with wanting to paint all the other interesting scenes, too :D) Dean has been injured and is recovering in hospital when Cas visits him. In this scene Cas is saying "feel my heart beating": Dean is surprised. (I got frustrated with the emotions in this painting until Reticentric reminded me that this scene is in Dean's pov, whereas everything else in this set is from Cas' pov. My subconcious had it right after all :D). Despite being a hospital, I wanted joyful colours and hints of rebirth in this scene, hence the blues and greens.
The following 2 sets of sketches are meant to be Cas' charcoal sketches (several of which I used on the cover). I used a couple of digital charcoal brushes (a fine one and a large soft one ) and a blending stub for these, and did them very quickly to get the right look.
Finally, a last minute bonus sketch. When Cas and Dean meet, Dean is tied up. I figured that probably made an impression on Cas, who probably sketched this scene too. I used a digital 2b pencil for this instead of the digital charcoal(to get a bit more control).
I don't normally do banners and extras, but I thought I might try this time:
Crossposted here (
comments).