Before...... After
Okay, so I'm going through my wallpapers just now, and looking for inspiration so that I can start art-ing again now that the precious laptop is back home safely. But instead of finding inspiration to do some lovely new art, I got a little sidetracked re-working a couple of old pieces. They are of course from In My Time of Dying, because damn it, I can't art that episode enough. Even though every time I open PS I swear I won't use those damn promos any more, I just had to go back and re-do my first two IMTOD pieces. So here we go, some before and after shots.
BeforeAfter
Before, 1024x768
After, 1024x768
I really liked this piece when I did it, the way Sam is sort of looking down on Dean from both angles, and the lyrics represent how Dean isn't going anywhere so long as Sam is there. I really liked how I kind of put it together, so I tried to keep the composition for the new piece. But I really wanted to make this one much darker, there's this huge theme of death creeping in and overpowering the moment, Dean is after all on the brink of death. But I kept the little highlights of colour, the hope, the strength that Dean is holding on with and thought the little hints of yellow really helped. But this time I threw in a stock of a clock, to re-iterate the theme of time, and how it's running out, and the longer Dean remains unconscious the less hope there is for him. I felt that this slight change of colouring and use of the stock really solidified what I was trying to show with this piece. And hopefully you guys might just agree.
BeforeAfter
Before, 1024x768
After, 1024x768
And now with this piece, I never really liked the composition of the first. I wanted John to be looking off up to the heaven's almost praying for forgiveness, as I wanted the guilt to be the main factor here. I wanted to show John watching over Dean as he is dying, and being torn from the family. But I really feel that in the original the images of John were just too overpowering in the right hand side, and that feeling of Dean drifting away and John's guilt, the way he blames himself for what's happening is lost. So I switched things around a little here. I made the image of John on the left bigger, with his eyes staring up, the way I had wanted. But erased one of the images of John on the right, replacing it with one of Sam and made the other smaller. I wanted to show John watching as Sam and Dean are being torn apart by Dean's impending death, I felt it intensified the guilt factor. I added in a stock of torn paper, gave the piece some texture. Took out some of the colouring so there was more 'raw colour' to the piece. Then I played with the text a little. I'm still not entirely happy with this piece, but never mind. It's a change anyway.
So anyway, that's my little art of the day update, lol. I rambled a little while doing that, but hey. I did some new art (ish), yay!
Sayjay
xox
BeforeAfter
Before, 1024x768
After, 1024x768
I really liked this piece when I did it, the way Sam is sort of looking down on Dean from both angles, and the lyrics represent how Dean isn't going anywhere so long as Sam is there. I really liked how I kind of put it together, so I tried to keep the composition for the new piece. But I really wanted to make this one much darker, there's this huge theme of death creeping in and overpowering the moment, Dean is after all on the brink of death. But I kept the little highlights of colour, the hope, the strength that Dean is holding on with and thought the little hints of yellow really helped. But this time I threw in a stock of a clock, to re-iterate the theme of time, and how it's running out, and the longer Dean remains unconscious the less hope there is for him. I felt that this slight change of colouring and use of the stock really solidified what I was trying to show with this piece. And hopefully you guys might just agree.
BeforeAfter
Before, 1024x768
After, 1024x768
And now with this piece, I never really liked the composition of the first. I wanted John to be looking off up to the heaven's almost praying for forgiveness, as I wanted the guilt to be the main factor here. I wanted to show John watching over Dean as he is dying, and being torn from the family. But I really feel that in the original the images of John were just too overpowering in the right hand side, and that feeling of Dean drifting away and John's guilt, the way he blames himself for what's happening is lost. So I switched things around a little here. I made the image of John on the left bigger, with his eyes staring up, the way I had wanted. But erased one of the images of John on the right, replacing it with one of Sam and made the other smaller. I wanted to show John watching as Sam and Dean are being torn apart by Dean's impending death, I felt it intensified the guilt factor. I added in a stock of torn paper, gave the piece some texture. Took out some of the colouring so there was more 'raw colour' to the piece. Then I played with the text a little. I'm still not entirely happy with this piece, but never mind. It's a change anyway.
So anyway, that's my little art of the day update, lol. I rambled a little while doing that, but hey. I did some new art (ish), yay!
Sayjay
xox