Art: Of Wolf and Man by twisted_slinky [Supernatural, Teen Wolf]

[sophiap]

I had the privilege of getting twisted_slinky's wonderful story, Of Wolf and Man, for this year's sncross_bigbang. The story grabbed my attention early in the first chapter and would not let me go. The main monster of the story was intriguing as hell, and my art in no way does it justice. Please, go read!

Comments

[twisted_slinky]

Thank you so much for making this beautiful piece to go with my story! You did a fantastic job, and I think you completely captured the monster. :D

[sophiap]

Thank you so much! I had a blast working on this, and I loved your story!

[cassiopeia7]

This is really nice! I love the lighting in particular, how you've got the TW guys caught in headlights or something, with Sam and Dean kinda lurking in the shadows. And your ghostly specter is both terrifying and beautiful. Great job!!

[sophiap]

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun playing with the lighting, even though it meant re-drawing Sam's face THREE TIMES.

[cassiopeia7]

LOL, only three times? :D Re-drawing a face multiple times (especially if it's Dean/Jensen, GDI) is kinda the norm in my neck of the arting woods.

. . . and hey, Sam looks GOOD!

[sophiap]

Thank you! I'm glad he turned out okay. Version #2 was hilariously awful - I may still have a picture of it on my phone.

Why is it that Jensen is so tricky to draw? I wonder if it's because his features are so regular and so distinctive at the same time. For a good while on this particular painting, he looked far more like Mark Pellegrino than Jensen Ackles.

I think that my pastel technique may count as 'redraw as you go' for most of it, since I can correct on the fly as I'm painting/drawing. The three redraws were complete erasures down to the bare paper, which had me terrified towards the end as I was starting to lose the tooth on the paper. Eek.

By the way, when does your SPN/J2 BB entry go up?

[amberdreams]

Love the free swirly pastels! Your ghostly thingy monster (I've not read the fic yet, can you tell? LOL) is really cool. From what little I've seen of Teen Wolf your Stiles in particular is a very good likeness, instantly recognisable. So are Sam and Dean of course!

I read your chat below with Cassiopea and you are right, Jensen is a bitch to draw!

[sophiap]

Thank you so much! I'm very new to Teen Wolf myself, so I'm glad I managed to get Stiles right.

Jensen is indeed a pain to draw for someone who's so very recognizeable.