Spn_cinema - Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine
Spn_cinema - Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine
Welcome to the art post for Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine, a fanbook drawn for spn_cinema and inspired by the movie by Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .
You can download the whole package HERE (there are white pages in the middle of the fanbook, it's normal. Carry on reading after those pages. The last page is page 71)
Yes, I know, I know, it's a bit hard to access my art once again, you have to go to Mediafire to download a zip file but it's the only solution I found to make you enjoy more than 70 pages of art and fic as I couldn't upload so many pages one by one on Imageshack. Believe me, it's more convenient this way.
Some art you can find in the booklet:
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Acknowledgments
A BIG thank you to akintay who betaed this (I lied to her, poor girl. I told her it was short and that it wouldn't take long. She ended up with tons of art and a big Word document full of spelling and grammar mistakes.
)
A big thank you too to obstinatrix who was the "Reader 0".
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Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine - Trivia
This part of the post contains spoilers
How long did it take?
About one month and an half, almost two months. A bit every night and during the weekends. However, I used some sketches I already had in some of my sketchbooks and that had nothing to do with this prompt like for instance the sneakers on page 13: they belong to my boyfriend (and IRL, they are green and horrible as if the brand Onitsuka Tiger used the skin of this poor Kermit The Frog to make those shoes)
Did you work on your own?
I didn't think I would write so much (hell, I didn't think I would draw so much! I planned to draw 15 pages and ended up with 71. Don't ask
). When I reached the 3/4 of this project, I realized I couldn't do it on my own. I'm not an author and I am an ESL so I let you imagine the disaster of the very first version I wrote. I asked for some help on Twitter and akintay kindly offered to help me and betaed the English to make it flow and less "Frenglish" (I'm French).
Most complicated pages?
- 32-33-34-35: all these pages were drawn using graphite on paper and it was really difficult. It requires precision and patience. Sometimes, I have none of the two.
Most simple pages?
- Page 11: just the word "nothing" written in the middle of the page.
- Page 47: It's just a beach with a tiny character in the middle. It didn't take long.
Some sketches (some I used, some I didn't have the time to)
- Jensen and his cat in 2013
- Dr Collins
- A draft for one of the comic pages on Part II
- The very first page, that changed a lot since :3
- Detailed ballpoint pen sketch of p.19
Some fails?
A lot! It's impossible not to fail when you draw 70 pages (except when your name is Alan Lee or Adam Hughes). There were two kinds of fails:
1) Completely failed art (problem of likeness, anatomy, body proportions, shadows and highlights, etc).
When you draw Misha and that your boyfriend, who likes Cas' a lot, asks you: "who's that?", you know that it's time to start all over again. Here are some examples with on the left, the original page and on the right, the finished product.
I found the faces on the left horrible. The likeness was off and they didn't convey anything, at least not the joy of a happy couple playing under the snow. However, the cat was cute. ^^
Another example with Misha, here.
2) Art that didn't match the rest.
When I started this project, I wanted to draw everything with a ballpoint pen, like a real diary. It was fun at the start but it became quickly monotonous. Not enough colors, always the same textures. It was pleasant to draw but I didn't find it very pleasant to read. I was afraid the reader would find it boring too. I decided to introduce some digital art. Little by little, the ballpoint pen art didn't fit the rest so I started to replace it progressively by CG art done in Photoshop.
The first version wasn't bad but when you take the diary as a whole, it didn't match the rest of the images.
Same problem as above. Not bad but it didn't match the rest of the diary and was too minimalistic.
Drawing all these items from J2's everyday life was a lot of fun but drawing Jared (or Jensen) is better. I thought that this page could use one of the Js to make it less boring.
From page 61, I wanted to draw everything a bit "manga style" by using a cel-shading coloring except that I forgot a tiny detail: I suck at cel-shading
. Everything I draw using this technique looks a bit flat so I forgot about cel-shading, just kept the black line art and colored the picture as if it was a digital painting. I used the grey scale technique. Here is for instance the first version of Page 63.
I didn't like Misha's face either so I redrew the last panel. The letters N.F were to tell Akintay that the art was "Not Finished" when I sent her for a first beta.
Some pages in the middle were photo manipulations. It was to show Jared's return to real life (not the diary). They showed Jared waking up slowly and hanging around in his house in his pajamas. Once again, I thought they didn't match the rest, they seemed out of place. I got rid of them pretty quickly. In addition, I suck at photomanips.
Tools of the trade?
A lot of things! Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, Painter 12, for the digital side and ballpoint pens and pencils for the traditional side. For the CG art, I used this brush set by Mar-Ka.
Voilà!! I hope you enjoyed this post and that you had a lot of fun reading this fanbook (I have no idea how to call this thing actually!!
)
And..oh, apparently, there's one last page!
Welcome to the art post for Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine, a fanbook drawn for spn_cinema and inspired by the movie by Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .
You can download the whole package HERE (there are white pages in the middle of the fanbook, it's normal. Carry on reading after those pages. The last page is page 71)
Yes, I know, I know, it's a bit hard to access my art once again, you have to go to Mediafire to download a zip file but it's the only solution I found to make you enjoy more than 70 pages of art and fic as I couldn't upload so many pages one by one on Imageshack. Believe me, it's more convenient this way.
Some art you can find in the booklet:
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Acknowledgments
A BIG thank you to akintay who betaed this (I lied to her, poor girl. I told her it was short and that it wouldn't take long. She ended up with tons of art and a big Word document full of spelling and grammar mistakes.
)
A big thank you too to obstinatrix who was the "Reader 0".
***
Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine - Trivia
This part of the post contains spoilers
How long did it take?
About one month and an half, almost two months. A bit every night and during the weekends. However, I used some sketches I already had in some of my sketchbooks and that had nothing to do with this prompt like for instance the sneakers on page 13: they belong to my boyfriend (and IRL, they are green and horrible as if the brand Onitsuka Tiger used the skin of this poor Kermit The Frog to make those shoes)
Did you work on your own?
I didn't think I would write so much (hell, I didn't think I would draw so much! I planned to draw 15 pages and ended up with 71. Don't ask
). When I reached the 3/4 of this project, I realized I couldn't do it on my own. I'm not an author and I am an ESL so I let you imagine the disaster of the very first version I wrote. I asked for some help on Twitter and akintay kindly offered to help me and betaed the English to make it flow and less "Frenglish" (I'm French).
Most complicated pages?
- 32-33-34-35: all these pages were drawn using graphite on paper and it was really difficult. It requires precision and patience. Sometimes, I have none of the two.
Most simple pages?
- Page 11: just the word "nothing" written in the middle of the page.
- Page 47: It's just a beach with a tiny character in the middle. It didn't take long.
Some sketches (some I used, some I didn't have the time to)
- Jensen and his cat in 2013
- Dr Collins
- A draft for one of the comic pages on Part II
- The very first page, that changed a lot since :3
- Detailed ballpoint pen sketch of p.19
Some fails?
A lot! It's impossible not to fail when you draw 70 pages (except when your name is Alan Lee or Adam Hughes). There were two kinds of fails:
1) Completely failed art (problem of likeness, anatomy, body proportions, shadows and highlights, etc).
When you draw Misha and that your boyfriend, who likes Cas' a lot, asks you: "who's that?", you know that it's time to start all over again. Here are some examples with on the left, the original page and on the right, the finished product.
I found the faces on the left horrible. The likeness was off and they didn't convey anything, at least not the joy of a happy couple playing under the snow. However, the cat was cute. ^^
Another example with Misha, here.
2) Art that didn't match the rest.
When I started this project, I wanted to draw everything with a ballpoint pen, like a real diary. It was fun at the start but it became quickly monotonous. Not enough colors, always the same textures. It was pleasant to draw but I didn't find it very pleasant to read. I was afraid the reader would find it boring too. I decided to introduce some digital art. Little by little, the ballpoint pen art didn't fit the rest so I started to replace it progressively by CG art done in Photoshop.
The first version wasn't bad but when you take the diary as a whole, it didn't match the rest of the images.
Same problem as above. Not bad but it didn't match the rest of the diary and was too minimalistic.
Drawing all these items from J2's everyday life was a lot of fun but drawing Jared (or Jensen) is better. I thought that this page could use one of the Js to make it less boring.
From page 61, I wanted to draw everything a bit "manga style" by using a cel-shading coloring except that I forgot a tiny detail: I suck at cel-shading
. Everything I draw using this technique looks a bit flat so I forgot about cel-shading, just kept the black line art and colored the picture as if it was a digital painting. I used the grey scale technique. Here is for instance the first version of Page 63.
I didn't like Misha's face either so I redrew the last panel. The letters N.F were to tell Akintay that the art was "Not Finished" when I sent her for a first beta.
Some pages in the middle were photo manipulations. It was to show Jared's return to real life (not the diary). They showed Jared waking up slowly and hanging around in his house in his pajamas. Once again, I thought they didn't match the rest, they seemed out of place. I got rid of them pretty quickly. In addition, I suck at photomanips.
Tools of the trade?
A lot of things! Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, Painter 12, for the digital side and ballpoint pens and pencils for the traditional side. For the CG art, I used this brush set by Mar-Ka.
Voilà!! I hope you enjoyed this post and that you had a lot of fun reading this fanbook (I have no idea how to call this thing actually!!
)
And..oh, apparently, there's one last page!