Fanart (Fandomaid Nepal, for Cleflink): The Witching Time of Night (PG-13, J2)
And here's the second of my Fandomaid commissions. Two down, seven hundred to go! \o/
This piece was inspired by cleflink's magical and absolutely DELIGHTFUL I Am the Shadow on the Moon at Night, in which ancient warlock Jared tracks down his errant familiar -- Jensen. As written, the scene illustrated takes place in a club (hence the disco lights and dancers), but you know that old devil "artistic license" had to rear its head.
Media: Ink, marker, pastel pencil, digital gradient background and a few digital sparkly bits.
This was Jared's time of night. Jensen wouldn't be leaving this place without him.
Yes, I put Jared in tight leather pants. Surely no one has issue with this? ;)
[Boring process stuff: Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain!]
A/N: Full disclosure. Cleflink's stories scare me. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE her writing. But from an illustrator's POV . . . argh! The otherworldly feel of her narrative, the pure fantasy element of every fic . . . dragons, empaths, superheroes, witches . . . magic sparks off the page and her stories fill my head with fantastical imagery that is so far beyond my ability to translate them to art, I despair of EVER doing any of her work justice. But I keep trying, 'cause I'm a dodo-bird. :)
Even though this piece was done expressly for cleflink's Help Nepal fandomaid bid, her original story was written as an spnspringfling gift for riyku. So now there are two different people out for my head. Wheee!
Cleflink, bb, thanks so much for bidding on me, and I hope this piece makes you happy. Thanks and virtual roses to my beta, becc_j, for looking over my chicken scratches and teaching me an anatomy lesson or two. Shoulder joints, how do they work? :)
Reverse progression . . .
Final piece as drawn, sans digital hoodoo:
(Yes, those are wrinkles in the paper across Jared's chest and thigh. It's been raining pretty much all day here, is humid as all hell, and the combination of solvent from all the markers required to get those dark shades + humidity borked the paper. The wrinkles will depart when the humidity does, but I doubt cleflink wants to wait until October for this thing. Meh. I HATE summer!)
Final ink:
(Very) rough pencil draft:
