Artwork for ReverseBang 2013 [The Third]
Another addition to my 2013 artwork for the spn_reversebang has been lying in wait for a while, but is finally unlocked now (Feb. 12). This is the second set of artwork I made, but due to circumstances beyond my control I'm presenting it last. Which is fitting, because it was originally the third prompt I submitted;) I made an effort to do something very different than for my other designs, so no papercutting this time, instead I messed around with Illustrator, markers, crayons and Photoshop...
In a Reverse Bang artists make fan-art which is posted anonymously for authors to choose as inspiration for fanfiction. I hadn't planned another prompt; I made this piece as a speedchallenge to myself to see how fast I could set up an illustration with melted crayons. Since it came out reasonable recognizable and the mods were practically begging for more art, I decided to submit it last minute after all :-p (Entry #2024) My superhero trope was chosen by cherry_kiss_8 who wrote a story featuring all of our SPN/RPF/WB/CW favorites! This inspired me to draw the whole crew in comicbookstyle...
Fic Title: Go Save The World, I'll Be Around
Author: cherry_kiss_8
Artist: beelikej
Medium: Illustrator, marker, melted crayons, Photoshop
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural/RPS, AU, Adventure
Pairing(s): Jared Padalecki / Jensen Ackles
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 14,500 (ish)
Warnings: Mild violence. Mention of bomb threats, use of guns and other weapons.
Summary: Jensen is a superhero, Misha owns a super lab, Richard is a super evil genius and Jared just wants to go one week without a guy with a bad moustache and a super evil monologue trying to ruin his goddamn life.
Art is rated G and there is one slightly spoilery scene, but you can safely look before you read the story.
Artwork
The original drawing for the banner above:
Outline with black marker, colouring with melted crayons. To make the drawing fit the comicbook theme, I added those rough newspaper style halftone dots to the image. There are several ways to do that; I chose to not use the PH-filter version, but did a little more advanced photoshopping (see process steps below;)
Character portraits
Not in an entirely random order; Felicia is my favorite, so she's on top. The halftone dots are best experienced in the original sized image. The smaller portraits can be clicked to see bigger. (Please be patient when the page loads;)
Yes, I drew young Jensen and older Jared; they are the same age in the story, but it's situated in present and past, so there :-p
Can you guess by the badge what Misha's and Osric's supertalents are?
I have a soft spot for Chris ever since he was Lindsey in Angel, woobie.
I vote for more ladies in this fandom!
Obviously the guys are cool, but there is a definite overdose of men...
Not that I'm complaining ;)
Scene
I meant to do portraits of every character, but when I read the second draft of the story, it felt more fitting to capture Samantha in a scene:
Dividers
I quite like how these texts look on my black background, but on the left you can see the effect I intended them to have (on the author's page)
Icons
I only made myself icons of the ladies:
In the first portrait of Genevieve she had her hair down, but I had an unfortunate incident with black crayons and redid the drawing. If you click the icon on the right, you can see the melted mess up close.
If anyone is interested in one of the other portraits for a userpic, let me know;)
The Process
Below you'll find a step by step of how I created the images: from pencil and line-art to marker and melted crayons plus the digital addition of the print-effect. [Click to skip the tour behind the scenes]
Banner set up
Click on images for a closer look
As my initial goal for this drawing was speed, for the prompt I set up a quick pencil sketch which I then coloured with melted crayons and finished off with marker lines.
After claiming and settling on a title and story premise, I redid the whole drawing for the banner. This time I traced the photos in Illustrator. I copied a print of this lineart with marker to make the image less mechanical. Then I coloured the marker version with melted crayons.
There are two methods to remove excess wax: rubbing with a tissue or scraping with a knife. Neither will completely hide your mistake :-p
Before and after shading. I was inspired by the awesome old comics in the Comically Vintage Tumblr to make the eventual art look like that and forced myself to experiment with hard shadows, among other elements. (There are a couple of example images of old comics in my Credits- and sourcepost)
Finishing touches in Photoshop
As I said I used a more complicated method than the 'halftone'-filter. I made a black & white version of the coloured drawing, turned that into a halftone bitmap (dots per inch depend on the size of your file, for the 700x500 pixel banner I set dpi to 150 and used a 65 lpi round halftone.) I then layered that bitmap on top of the colour and set it to a soft light filter. To make sure the black lines were solid I added a 'photocopy' filter on top. Tadaah!
Click on the detail gif to see the whole banner in steps.
Portraits set up
Tracing the digital lineart with marker and getting ready to play with crayons. (1. Heat paper with iron, 2. Rub melting crayon in desired spot until paper cools down and wax gets solid; you have about 15 seconds;)
Osric was one of the test portraits in the early stages (together with Chris), and I ended up changing his pose because I used the awkward hand in neck for Jensen.
Change of location because I had to watch The Negotiator (have seen it dozens of times, but can never resist it when it's on tv and I hardly ever watch tv anymore! Samuel L. Jackson + Kevin Spacey = powerhouse acting *hearteyes*)
Ehm, where was I. Right: if you want to know how long it takes to colour, check the scenes in the film above and below. Ha. I knew there was a reason I took these photos.
The circles and square frames are digitally added to the drawings (see gif below)
All the finished drawings \o/
Digital editing
For the portraits I used photo-examples, which I edited or maniped if needed (Felicia's hair for instance;). I didn't scan the drawings, but took photographs without flash, which gave the paper a yellowish old tone. I digitally added halftone dots (same steps as mentioned above). The circle frame was layered as a mask and I included the badge to go with each superhero.
Click on the detail gif to see the whole portrait in steps.
The melted crayons turned out to look just like an aged and slightly off-coloured print technique, especially when I added the halftone dots. Not being able to stay inside the lines, due to the speed with which I had to colour, gave it that 'rushed for deadline, low quality print' feel I was aiming for! (That's also the excuse I use for colours that came out a little off *cough*Danneel's pink face*cough*) :-p
The End
Thank you!
Thank you, cherry_kiss_8, for giving everyone a part in the story so I could play with others besides Jensen and Jared. Thanks, spn_reversebang mods for stepping in when needed;)
Credits for inspirational images and reference photos, can be found in my RBB 2013 Sourcepost.
Last but not least thank you, visitor, for stopping by. I'd love to know what you think of this set, so as usual you're invited to leave a comment. Whether it's long or short, praise or concrit; it's always nice to know you took a look at my art!
J.
RBB-1: coloured papercut artwork | RBB-2: NC-17 nsfw paperart (JDM!)
All my earlier fandom-designs can be found through my masterlist of artsy creations.
In a Reverse Bang artists make fan-art which is posted anonymously for authors to choose as inspiration for fanfiction. I hadn't planned another prompt; I made this piece as a speedchallenge to myself to see how fast I could set up an illustration with melted crayons. Since it came out reasonable recognizable and the mods were practically begging for more art, I decided to submit it last minute after all :-p (Entry #2024) My superhero trope was chosen by cherry_kiss_8 who wrote a story featuring all of our SPN/RPF/WB/CW favorites! This inspired me to draw the whole crew in comicbookstyle...
Fic Title: Go Save The World, I'll Be Around
Author: cherry_kiss_8
Artist: beelikej
Medium: Illustrator, marker, melted crayons, Photoshop
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural/RPS, AU, Adventure
Pairing(s): Jared Padalecki / Jensen Ackles
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 14,500 (ish)
Warnings: Mild violence. Mention of bomb threats, use of guns and other weapons.
Summary: Jensen is a superhero, Misha owns a super lab, Richard is a super evil genius and Jared just wants to go one week without a guy with a bad moustache and a super evil monologue trying to ruin his goddamn life.
Art is rated G and there is one slightly spoilery scene, but you can safely look before you read the story.
Artwork
The original drawing for the banner above:
Outline with black marker, colouring with melted crayons. To make the drawing fit the comicbook theme, I added those rough newspaper style halftone dots to the image. There are several ways to do that; I chose to not use the PH-filter version, but did a little more advanced photoshopping (see process steps below;)
Character portraits
Not in an entirely random order; Felicia is my favorite, so she's on top. The halftone dots are best experienced in the original sized image. The smaller portraits can be clicked to see bigger. (Please be patient when the page loads;)
Yes, I drew young Jensen and older Jared; they are the same age in the story, but it's situated in present and past, so there :-p
Can you guess by the badge what Misha's and Osric's supertalents are?
I have a soft spot for Chris ever since he was Lindsey in Angel, woobie.
I vote for more ladies in this fandom!
Obviously the guys are cool, but there is a definite overdose of men...
Not that I'm complaining ;)
Scene
I meant to do portraits of every character, but when I read the second draft of the story, it felt more fitting to capture Samantha in a scene:
Dividers
I quite like how these texts look on my black background, but on the left you can see the effect I intended them to have (on the author's page)
Icons
I only made myself icons of the ladies:
In the first portrait of Genevieve she had her hair down, but I had an unfortunate incident with black crayons and redid the drawing. If you click the icon on the right, you can see the melted mess up close.
If anyone is interested in one of the other portraits for a userpic, let me know;)
The Process
Below you'll find a step by step of how I created the images: from pencil and line-art to marker and melted crayons plus the digital addition of the print-effect. [Click to skip the tour behind the scenes]
Banner set up
Click on images for a closer look
As my initial goal for this drawing was speed, for the prompt I set up a quick pencil sketch which I then coloured with melted crayons and finished off with marker lines.
After claiming and settling on a title and story premise, I redid the whole drawing for the banner. This time I traced the photos in Illustrator. I copied a print of this lineart with marker to make the image less mechanical. Then I coloured the marker version with melted crayons.
There are two methods to remove excess wax: rubbing with a tissue or scraping with a knife. Neither will completely hide your mistake :-p
Before and after shading. I was inspired by the awesome old comics in the Comically Vintage Tumblr to make the eventual art look like that and forced myself to experiment with hard shadows, among other elements. (There are a couple of example images of old comics in my Credits- and sourcepost)
Finishing touches in Photoshop
As I said I used a more complicated method than the 'halftone'-filter. I made a black & white version of the coloured drawing, turned that into a halftone bitmap (dots per inch depend on the size of your file, for the 700x500 pixel banner I set dpi to 150 and used a 65 lpi round halftone.) I then layered that bitmap on top of the colour and set it to a soft light filter. To make sure the black lines were solid I added a 'photocopy' filter on top. Tadaah!
Click on the detail gif to see the whole banner in steps.
Portraits set up
Tracing the digital lineart with marker and getting ready to play with crayons. (1. Heat paper with iron, 2. Rub melting crayon in desired spot until paper cools down and wax gets solid; you have about 15 seconds;)
Osric was one of the test portraits in the early stages (together with Chris), and I ended up changing his pose because I used the awkward hand in neck for Jensen.
Change of location because I had to watch The Negotiator (have seen it dozens of times, but can never resist it when it's on tv and I hardly ever watch tv anymore! Samuel L. Jackson + Kevin Spacey = powerhouse acting *hearteyes*)
Ehm, where was I. Right: if you want to know how long it takes to colour, check the scenes in the film above and below. Ha. I knew there was a reason I took these photos.
The circles and square frames are digitally added to the drawings (see gif below)
All the finished drawings \o/
Digital editing
For the portraits I used photo-examples, which I edited or maniped if needed (Felicia's hair for instance;). I didn't scan the drawings, but took photographs without flash, which gave the paper a yellowish old tone. I digitally added halftone dots (same steps as mentioned above). The circle frame was layered as a mask and I included the badge to go with each superhero.
Click on the detail gif to see the whole portrait in steps.
The melted crayons turned out to look just like an aged and slightly off-coloured print technique, especially when I added the halftone dots. Not being able to stay inside the lines, due to the speed with which I had to colour, gave it that 'rushed for deadline, low quality print' feel I was aiming for! (That's also the excuse I use for colours that came out a little off *cough*Danneel's pink face*cough*) :-p
The End
Thank you!
Thank you, cherry_kiss_8, for giving everyone a part in the story so I could play with others besides Jensen and Jared. Thanks, spn_reversebang mods for stepping in when needed;)
Credits for inspirational images and reference photos, can be found in my RBB 2013 Sourcepost.
Last but not least thank you, visitor, for stopping by. I'd love to know what you think of this set, so as usual you're invited to leave a comment. Whether it's long or short, praise or concrit; it's always nice to know you took a look at my art!
J.
RBB-1: coloured papercut artwork | RBB-2: NC-17 nsfw paperart (JDM!)
All my earlier fandom-designs can be found through my masterlist of artsy creations.