SPN RBang art post- jasmasson- In the shadows, on the screen

[jenilees]

My first entry for the spn_reversebang  was chosen by the lovely jasmasson.

I am very lucky I had such wonderful authors for this exchange. They both are authors whose work I know, and could say to them- Do what you want, I love your writing! It made this so easy and fun cos I just had to read the end results. LOL I'm so spoiled.

link to story:
In the shadows, on the

Comments

[mlebayre]

I lurve these...very unique and different. And they inspired an awesome story.

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[jenilees]

Thank you so much! I learned so much from this challenge and it was exactly what I needed to get me motivated to learn something new.
Right! Wasn't it just fabulous! I really loved what jasmasson did with the prompt.

[tanpopo03]

Wheeee! OMG, I so love the colors in these, you have no idea!! It's all... gloomy and really expressive.

And you did the second one in half an hour?? Impressive. I really like that one, too!

Also: for some strange reason this did not appear on my flist. I just went back a few pages to check if I was just blind, or missed a couple of posts, but nope. Not there. Gotta recheck my settings... but all your other posts always showed up. Weird.
When's you other posting date? I seem to remember that yours were really close, like, two days in a row? But I guess you changed it?

[jenilees]

Aw thanks hun and thanks for getting me to do this. It's been a lot of fun. I like the colour in the first one too. I don't know what it says about me but I always pick gloomy/dirty colours like that. LOL
The second, I don't mind saying could have used some help although I do like the colours. The drawing took a long time, the paint though was slapped on as a last ditch effort to save it. LOL Yea..it didn't work.

Oh! it probably didn't show up because I made the post a few days beforehand and postdated it so all I had to do was unlock it, maybe? Mostly I did that because I am ocd and didn't want to get caught unawares if I had any trouble getting the images uploaded or the cuts to work. which it's me, so you know there was lots of problems. lol
The other has been moved to the fifth and yea they were right in a row, so the other reason for the organisational skills. ;P
When is yours? I've been dying to see yours in colour. Did you get to practice the lighting like you wanted?

[debbiel66]

Really loved these... all evocative and moody, just like our show. Lovely work - thank you! &hearts

[jenilees]

Thank you so much for the lovely compliment, Debbie! It was so much fun to do this!

[beelikej]

I would not have guessed these are watercolours! It's sad that the artwork left you a little frustrated, because I think you made a great prompt and additional piece!
Plus you totally made Sam look like the same person in both pictures, I can never manage to do that *grins*

But seriously; I'm impressed you got such dark colours out of the technique and the skintones are gorgeous (especially in the original prompt). The gun coming out of the shadows adds the perfect amount of gloom.

[jenilees]

Oh thank you! I had the hardest time drawing his face consistently. I'm so glad to hear he looks the same in both.

Ah well frustration will eventually go away. That pic though.. you know the whatever could go wrong will, thing? Welllll with this, it was everything went wrong. LOL This is actually around attempt six. Those are the times when you wish you had an art program. Oye... LOL

I'm actually pretty happy with the skintones too.. This is my first watercolour portrait type thing so they were the hardest for me, so thank you extra much for that.
He's a bit pale in the second. You can tell that I didn't spend the time layering the colour like I did the first. Plus the skin tone is a mix and I probably didn't get quite the same colour the second time around.
Also when I played with the contrast in the photo editor. I just played til I liked it and the second one I had to try and get it similiar when I had no idea what I even did to get it like that in the first place.
Thank you again.

[sillie82]

Ah yes. Watercolors can be a frustrating medium to work with, but I think you managed. These look great.

[jenilees]

Thank you! I learned so much from this. One reason I started playing in watercolour was to teach myself to loosen up. I'm a bit of a control freak and acrylic lets me be that way.
But you are right it can be super frustrating.. especially coming in from an acrylic background. LOl MY biggest problem is because the word "water" is in the medium I think I need gallons of water..lol