Originally posted by
amber1960 at
Gardening in the Desert - spn_gen_bigbang Art post The second of my art posts for
spn_gen_bigbang ! I was very chuffed to pick out
poetartist and an installment of her wonderful imaginative AU Pie Verse.
It gave me the opportunity to try some Haida-style art (not strictly from the tribal area the fic is set in but I've loved the style for years). There was so much more I wanted to illustrate, the story is full of lovely imagery but sadly I ran out of time....
Thanks to
reapertownusa for putting on this lovely challenge and single-handedly modding (is that a word?) us all!
As always, first is the banner to tempt you over to the Fic Masterpost
HERE. PDF download with art
HERE!
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Gardenbanner600.jpg)
This is going to be an image intensive post! There is nothing spoilery in the art as far as plot, just characters.
I did two portraits - one of Dean and one of Coyote (in one of his human incarnations).
First Coyote (pencil drawing coloured in GIMP)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Coyoteportraitblackback.jpg)
In the background is a Haida-style coyote (drawn in black biro then coloured in GIMP)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Coyotehowlblackback.jpg)
Dean was done in the same way
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Deanportrait.jpg)
His background is the harvest god Kokopelli
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Kokopellispiralsky.jpg)
Also featured is the archer, so I also did a Haida-style version.
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Archerbluestars.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/spiralmotificon.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Kokopellispiralskyicon.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Deankokopelliicon.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Coyote2portraitblackicon.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Coyotehowlblackicon.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Archericon.jpg)
And icons and text divider just for the hell of it
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/dividerspiral.jpg)
Finally if you have lasted this long - wow, thank you!
Here are some of the pencil drawings:
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/Coyotedrawingv1.jpg)
![](http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz224/Amberdreams1960/Poetartist/P1180744lightened.jpg)
References -
For Coyote - I largely made him up but he's kind of based on Tig from Sons of Anarchy.
Dean is from one of
wolfpup2000 convention photos of Jensen looking pensive listening to a question.
The archer's outline was from rock art, coyote and kokopelli are both from photos found on Google images. Backgrounds and textures used - the one on banner is 062 by cloaks, the one used on coyote is one
adrenalineshots gave me, kokopelli's background is a time lapse star photo of the Perseids found on Google, and the archer's is a metal table I took a photo of overlaid with a Nasa star photo.