The Song Of Gabriel [Art Masterpost]
Title: The Song Of Gabriel (read it here)
Author: pamymex3girl
Artist: soserendipity
Genre: SPN Gen, implied Kali/Gabriel
Rating: PG
Word count: 14,695
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers up until season 5's "Hammer Of The Gods". Canon compliant main character death. Quotes in italics are from the episodes "Changing Channels" and "Hammer Of The Gods".
Summary: This is how it begins, it begins with a song. In a time so long ago that Gabriel can barely remember it. This is the strangest part: Lucifer is the one who's singing. A story about Gabriel's live from the moment he's created to the moment he dies. A story of love between brothers and the loss of everything.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own ideas. No money made, no insult intended. This is purely fictional.
Artist's Notes: Created for spn_gen_bigbang.
This story had a mind of its own. As in, it simply didn't want to be shared. The first few weeks the busy RL schedule of the author prevented it and then the poor pamymex3girl suffered through a massive internet breakdown. So until very recently I only had the first few pages of the rough draft to draw inspiration from, which in turn resulted in only one piece of art, albeit for my rookie skills a quite intricate and arduous one. I hope you still enjoy it.
Some more technical notes and details about the work process can be found below the art, for those who are interested in such things. Since I'm still new to the art side of things, concrit is most welcome.
Acknowledgments: A huge thank you to the awesome lightthesparks for all her encouragement, her never-ending enthusiasm, and her general advice on this. Also, another shout-out to
reapertownusa. It was a scary, at times intimidating, and often enough frustrating task to try and teach myself the works of digital art. But all the squeeing about the various aspects of fandom was so much fun; she always makes me forget my worries and focus on good things instead. So much ♥ for her, you wouldn't believe.
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Banner:
Dividers:
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Main piece of art, titled "Gather 'round, little ones. Let me tell you about creation." (click the picture for bigger version).
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Icons (feel free to snag and credit what you like):
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Technical blurb and work process:
The whole project was done in GIMP. The first thing I worked on was the main piece and the inspiration for it was the following information that I gathered from the author's rough draft:
1) Gabriel was present during creation and he was fascinated by the process.
2) He loved earth and all the animals on it.
3) There were times when he used to tell stories to the little ones.
I tried to depict the first time Gabriel told the other angels about all the new and exciting things he saw. In later life he was well versed in conjuring up things (which is why it was so easy for him to be a pretend trickster, I guess) and I thought that he probably always liked it, even before he left heaven. So instead of just telling he'd show it, too, and since he's a little egocentrical, all the conjured animals would focus on him, I guess. Since this takes part at a time before humans started inhabiting their personal heaven, everything is still kind of shapeless; there's nothing besides blue-green-greyish pseudo landscape of pure matter or energy, maybe. It's not time for vessels yet, either, and animals are a novelty, too, so I thought about the essence of the heavenly hosts and glowing spheres of grace it was. Gabriel himself is supposed to be the blue orb closest to the center of the picture and the colored spheres surrounding him are meant to be his angelic audience.
The lineart for the animals was prepared individually. I did lion, snake, bird, eye (icon), and goat-sheep-hybrid with pen on paper and digitalized the drawings. Manatee and dragonfly wings were done completely digitally because it took friggin' days and layers upon layers to turn my less than meh scans into clean lineart. I used reference pictures (via google search) for lion, snake, dragonfly, and manatee so those should at least be close to anatomically correct. Eye, bird and goat-sheep-thingy originated from my imagination so I'm 97% sure they don't actually exist like this.
The lineart for the background was done by hand (on paper again, argh) and all the coloring took place in GIMP. That's where the structuring effect stems from, too. Unfortunately, the structuring tool turned all the nice, clean outlines into shapeless blobbs of colors, so again there were lots of layers involved, pretty much one for every clean line there is in the final piece. In general, refining and mashing things was a major task that I clearly underestimated time- and efffort-wise. The background behind the "landscape" consists of pictures of night skies that I mangled through some filters and worked over with colored layers of diminished opacity. The last to add were the layers with all the different components of glowing grace. I hope the overall composition works.
Banner, dividers, and icons refer to several elements from the main piece. The only thing new here is the music featured in the dividers because the final rough draft seemed to focus on music (or at least one song), but unfortunately there was no time to work it into a second elaborate piece. Please feel free to voice constructive criticism on whichever aspect because I'd love to improve.
Author: pamymex3girl
Artist: soserendipity
Genre: SPN Gen, implied Kali/Gabriel
Rating: PG
Word count: 14,695
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers up until season 5's "Hammer Of The Gods". Canon compliant main character death. Quotes in italics are from the episodes "Changing Channels" and "Hammer Of The Gods".
Summary: This is how it begins, it begins with a song. In a time so long ago that Gabriel can barely remember it. This is the strangest part: Lucifer is the one who's singing. A story about Gabriel's live from the moment he's created to the moment he dies. A story of love between brothers and the loss of everything.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my own ideas. No money made, no insult intended. This is purely fictional.
Artist's Notes: Created for spn_gen_bigbang.
This story had a mind of its own. As in, it simply didn't want to be shared. The first few weeks the busy RL schedule of the author prevented it and then the poor pamymex3girl suffered through a massive internet breakdown. So until very recently I only had the first few pages of the rough draft to draw inspiration from, which in turn resulted in only one piece of art, albeit for my rookie skills a quite intricate and arduous one. I hope you still enjoy it.
Some more technical notes and details about the work process can be found below the art, for those who are interested in such things. Since I'm still new to the art side of things, concrit is most welcome.
Acknowledgments: A huge thank you to the awesome lightthesparks for all her encouragement, her never-ending enthusiasm, and her general advice on this. Also, another shout-out to
reapertownusa. It was a scary, at times intimidating, and often enough frustrating task to try and teach myself the works of digital art. But all the squeeing about the various aspects of fandom was so much fun; she always makes me forget my worries and focus on good things instead. So much ♥ for her, you wouldn't believe.
***
Banner:
Dividers:
***
Main piece of art, titled "Gather 'round, little ones. Let me tell you about creation." (click the picture for bigger version).
***
Icons (feel free to snag and credit what you like):
***
Technical blurb and work process:
The whole project was done in GIMP. The first thing I worked on was the main piece and the inspiration for it was the following information that I gathered from the author's rough draft:
1) Gabriel was present during creation and he was fascinated by the process.
2) He loved earth and all the animals on it.
3) There were times when he used to tell stories to the little ones.
I tried to depict the first time Gabriel told the other angels about all the new and exciting things he saw. In later life he was well versed in conjuring up things (which is why it was so easy for him to be a pretend trickster, I guess) and I thought that he probably always liked it, even before he left heaven. So instead of just telling he'd show it, too, and since he's a little egocentrical, all the conjured animals would focus on him, I guess. Since this takes part at a time before humans started inhabiting their personal heaven, everything is still kind of shapeless; there's nothing besides blue-green-greyish pseudo landscape of pure matter or energy, maybe. It's not time for vessels yet, either, and animals are a novelty, too, so I thought about the essence of the heavenly hosts and glowing spheres of grace it was. Gabriel himself is supposed to be the blue orb closest to the center of the picture and the colored spheres surrounding him are meant to be his angelic audience.
The lineart for the animals was prepared individually. I did lion, snake, bird, eye (icon), and goat-sheep-hybrid with pen on paper and digitalized the drawings. Manatee and dragonfly wings were done completely digitally because it took friggin' days and layers upon layers to turn my less than meh scans into clean lineart. I used reference pictures (via google search) for lion, snake, dragonfly, and manatee so those should at least be close to anatomically correct. Eye, bird and goat-sheep-thingy originated from my imagination so I'm 97% sure they don't actually exist like this.
The lineart for the background was done by hand (on paper again, argh) and all the coloring took place in GIMP. That's where the structuring effect stems from, too. Unfortunately, the structuring tool turned all the nice, clean outlines into shapeless blobbs of colors, so again there were lots of layers involved, pretty much one for every clean line there is in the final piece. In general, refining and mashing things was a major task that I clearly underestimated time- and efffort-wise. The background behind the "landscape" consists of pictures of night skies that I mangled through some filters and worked over with colored layers of diminished opacity. The last to add were the layers with all the different components of glowing grace. I hope the overall composition works.
Banner, dividers, and icons refer to several elements from the main piece. The only thing new here is the music featured in the dividers because the final rough draft seemed to focus on music (or at least one song), but unfortunately there was no time to work it into a second elaborate piece. Please feel free to voice constructive criticism on whichever aspect because I'd love to improve.