Artwork Quicky_Bang MatchMaker Challenge 2017-1
As the moderator of the quicky_bang I keep an eye on all the fics that are offered up for a Quicky and thus the ones that are eventually archived for the MatchMaker Challenge. Of course, to play fair, I always make a blind selection for my own match. But when this fic was still available for the latest round of MatchMakers, I just had to grab it for myself. I wanted to make a banner to visualize all the dark, brooding feelings this story gave me...
I took a little longer than planned, but I'm happy to finally present my banner and to promote this wonderfully tense story:
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Author: theyrebrothers[AO3: buttheyrebrothers]
Artwork by: beelikej
Medium: papercutting and Photoshop
Characters: Jensen, Jared
Rating: NC-17 (I'd say art is PG-13;)
Word count: 2603
Enticements/Warnings: dubious consent, gunplay, dirty talk
Summary: Only mistake he ever made in twenty years and now it’s back to haunt him.
Different still versions
All the elements
Jared in the dark
Silhouette of young Jared
Jared with lighteffect
My favorite: all the elements but with 'clean' papercuttings.
Making of
I was all eager to get going with this story and get it done within the timeframe of this challenge; my brain was full of ideas... and then I got stuck on execution. I won't bore you with my spread out process, I'll just tell the story in pictures, with a minimum of babbling;)
A doodle sketch of another idea I was playing with, and the draft of the set up I chose to fiddle with.
PAPERCUTTING
Sketches and sorting out paper colours
Papercuts and paterns (and playing with the gun;)
Background testing
Light testing
Experimenting with the hand(s) and a patterned sleeve
I've ditched the body shape, as I'm going with a photo of Jared's face instead.
Now I'm deciding whether I should roll up the sleeve and if I should include a stroking, open hand...
Playing with angles and shadow shapes of the open hand
There are actually fingernails and other details, just so you know;) In the end I only use the hand with the gun though.
The silhouette of young Jared was originally part of the set up of a papercut design I did for a 2013 ReverseBang artpost,
see if you can spot it in the Making Of section;) More sources below!
SOURCES:
The background:
Sheets from Sam's bed: SPN S10Ep17 - Inside Man
Patterns: paper from FLOW, book for Paper Lovers 2014
Jensen is a combination of bedscenes:
Face: SPN S01Ep13 - ROUTE 666
Torso: SPN S10Ep17 - Inside Man
Body double: Guy who happens to have a tattoo that looks like JDM's cross, haha
Sam's face: SPNS03Ep11 - Mystery Spot
Sam's chin: SPNS03Ep08 - A Very Supernatural Christmas
REFERENCES:
To cut the hand with the gun, I used a selection of reference pics. The initial idea was based on this shadow image from istockphoto, that I found when I googled "staring down the barrel of a gun" for inspirational points of view:)
FONTS: Noir-et-Blanc (with edits for fade away effect;) & Bougan (names)
BONUS:
The base manip of Jensen, I fiddled a bit more with him in the banner (spot the difference;)
Thank you, theyrebrothers, for letting me play with your story and for your patience when I needed time to fight an artblock.
Now, everyone go read the story!
(But if you could comment on my art too, that would be awesome;)
J.
Want more? My Masterlist of artsy fiddling
Crossposted from http://beelikej.dreamwidth.org/518417.html [
comments] Lurk or comment wherever you like:)
I took a little longer than planned, but I'm happy to finally present my banner and to promote this wonderfully tense story:
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Author: theyrebrothers[AO3: buttheyrebrothers]
Artwork by: beelikej
Medium: papercutting and Photoshop
Characters: Jensen, Jared
Rating: NC-17 (I'd say art is PG-13;)
Word count: 2603
Enticements/Warnings: dubious consent, gunplay, dirty talk
Summary: Only mistake he ever made in twenty years and now it’s back to haunt him.
Different still versions
All the elements
Jared in the dark
Silhouette of young Jared
Jared with lighteffect
My favorite: all the elements but with 'clean' papercuttings.
Making of
I was all eager to get going with this story and get it done within the timeframe of this challenge; my brain was full of ideas... and then I got stuck on execution. I won't bore you with my spread out process, I'll just tell the story in pictures, with a minimum of babbling;)
A doodle sketch of another idea I was playing with, and the draft of the set up I chose to fiddle with.
PAPERCUTTING
Sketches and sorting out paper colours
Papercuts and paterns (and playing with the gun;)
Background testing
Light testing
Experimenting with the hand(s) and a patterned sleeve
I've ditched the body shape, as I'm going with a photo of Jared's face instead.
Now I'm deciding whether I should roll up the sleeve and if I should include a stroking, open hand...
Playing with angles and shadow shapes of the open hand
There are actually fingernails and other details, just so you know;) In the end I only use the hand with the gun though.
The silhouette of young Jared was originally part of the set up of a papercut design I did for a 2013 ReverseBang artpost,
see if you can spot it in the Making Of section;) More sources below!
SOURCES:
The background:
Sheets from Sam's bed: SPN S10Ep17 - Inside Man
Patterns: paper from FLOW, book for Paper Lovers 2014
Jensen is a combination of bedscenes:
Face: SPN S01Ep13 - ROUTE 666
Torso: SPN S10Ep17 - Inside Man
Body double: Guy who happens to have a tattoo that looks like JDM's cross, haha
Sam's face: SPNS03Ep11 - Mystery Spot
Sam's chin: SPNS03Ep08 - A Very Supernatural Christmas
REFERENCES:
To cut the hand with the gun, I used a selection of reference pics. The initial idea was based on this shadow image from istockphoto, that I found when I googled "staring down the barrel of a gun" for inspirational points of view:)
FONTS: Noir-et-Blanc (with edits for fade away effect;) & Bougan (names)
BONUS:
The base manip of Jensen, I fiddled a bit more with him in the banner (spot the difference;)
Thank you, theyrebrothers, for letting me play with your story and for your patience when I needed time to fight an artblock.
Now, everyone go read the story!
(But if you could comment on my art too, that would be awesome;)
J.
Want more? My Masterlist of artsy fiddling
Crossposted from http://beelikej.dreamwidth.org/518417.html [
comments] Lurk or comment wherever you like:)