alexisjane

Art for

samdean_otp MiniBang 2014 entry

Go read it here!

The idea for this art was basically that Sam's 'imaginary' world was a total overload to his system, so I had a very clear idea from the beginning that I wanted to have very simple pencil drawings to represent the 'real world' and then Sam's tormenters as manips.

So I did that.

Photo Manips

I used one or more photos to make each figure. I manipped them together and then split each picture up (using the polygon lasso tool to select an area, then copy and pasting each one to form a jigsaw of sorts) and then changing the opacity on each piece to create a fractured, faceted effect, as well as changing the saturation and colour balance to make it look...weird.

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Original Pencil Drawings

I'm severely out of practice at drawing so these aren't as nice as I would have liked.
The one of Sam was tricky as I was working from two references and trying to make him look younger...not sure I pulled it off.
The one of Dean was okay except for JENSEN FUCKING ACKLES'S FUCKING FACE...bane of my life! I'm surprised I didn't erase a hole in the paper!
I think the Cas one turned out okay mainly as I just thought I'd quickly sketch something out and then do it properly later but actually, I thought it looked okay! : ) Not overthinking ftw!

The Composites

I spent an age moving each of the elements around trying to get a good composition that made narrative sense. This was the result.
Originally, I was just going to have the one image with all the elements in it but looking at them like this a) I really liked the plain pencil layout, and b) the other one was pissing me off. It wasn't until I started spinning them in desperation that I struck on the mirroring idea...which made me happy : ) Also, I quite like that it makes the viewer tilt their head from side to side coz is disorienting, and kinda references how Sam feels. (Can you tell I have a degree in Conceptual Art? Can ya? : )

Dividers for Cas and Sam

Just echoing the same idea as the titlecard...using pencil and photomanips to represent two levels of reality...and stuff.

Font used for the title card is "Beautiful Horror" by 'sanz d'cloudz available from Dafont

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