BigBang ARTPOST! For Real Life: Good For You by octoberxsong

Jul 20, 2010 18:30

Wednesdaynight I received a request to do pinch hit artwork for an SPN_J2 BigBang story that lost its original artist. Due to the last minute nature of this assignment, I didn't have a chance to really get to know octoberxsong, but I hope this quickie was as good for her as it was for me;) I got a crash-course in World of Warcraft out of it and although I fear I didn't do that game much justice, we had fun anyway *g*

YOU however do not need to know anything about WoW to enjoy the story, go read it: it is sweet (and funny!) college-fic with adorably confused Jared and confident (or is he?) Jensen.

Title: Real Life: Good For You
Author: octoberxsong
Artist: beelikej
Genre: RPS AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Summary: College is not what Jared had imagined. Instead of happy days with Chad and his friends, there's just Jared - alone in Bumfuck, Nowheresville, while Chad's living it up in California. Lonely and playing too much World of Warcraft, Jared decides to be proactive, get himself out of the socially awkward rut he's gotten stuck in, and find himself a roommate. But moving in with easygoing and laidback Jensen, Jared's about to discover that real life doesn't always turn out the way you expect it to!



ETA 2011: The author changed her LJ-name a couple of months after publishing. I updated the logo;)
ETA 2012: The author changed her name again. I'm leaving it for now. May adjust logo later. :-p

Oops I did it again...
Even with the limited time I managed to completely change the original set up of this banner before I settled on a style... My process, let me show you it:

I started with this sketch on paper:

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which I then discarded due to doubts about my drawing abilities.

Instead I worked on this photo collage:

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where I tried to fit every little detail in the story into the design. That shape in the background is supposed to be Pennsylvania. *eyeroll* The only thing I was quite pleased about was the logo.

Thanks to some much needed feedback from octoberxsong (and some justified scolding about my lack of knowledge on WoW that was showing through the totally wrong image on the computerscreen ;o) I returned to my original idea and fiddled until I worked out a way to put it together in my trusted Photoshop. Pfew. See banner on top for the final version:)

Additional artwork
DIVIDER


ICONS
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LOGOS
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JARED & JENSEN promote real life:)






Bonus CHAD!Gnome


THANK YOUS
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Thank you octoberxsong and wendy for trusting me with this and giving me some extra time to get my creative juices flowing (ehm). It was great to get yet another author and story for inspiration. I'm amazed by all the different kinds of people and worlds I'm discovering in spn_j2_bigbang!
A special thanks to my dear co-worker S. who posed as Jared after I showed him my measly sketches. Those pictures will never be shown in public, although a tiny part of him is hidden in the final banner;)

Like?/Don't like? I welcome comments of all kinds!

J.

bigbang, i made this, j2, bbartwork

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