Art: Agora

[dancing_adrift]

Title: Artwork for Agora
Author: excoyote (also on AO3 as brokenlittleboy)
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: PG-13 (with R? (shirtless boys) under a cut)
Medium: primarily GIMP 2, with a little help from Corel Painter Essentials 5 and Picasa 3

Artist Notes: My second claim for Round 1 of quicky_bang.

As always, first and foremost, if you haven't read the story, go read

Comments

[ash48]

Lovely!! <3

[dancing_adrift]

Thank you! ^_^

[madebyme_x]

Lovely images! It's great to see some variants with the vintage version too.

Thank you for sharing :)

[dancing_adrift]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it :) I made a few more variants for kicks and giggles, just simple Picasa filters and such, but that one was my favorite :)

[alyndra]

Super cool and sweet! I love how you did the rain and atmosphere; weather can be so hard to get right!

[dancing_adrift]

Thanks!! I did have a completely different style of rain up until last night. It was a lot more... sperm-like, lol. And I went through two cloud variations (and settled on the ones you see, after some feedback from my fiancé and one of my 'art beta's :)). I'm glad you think it works! :)

[emmatheslayer]

amazing work wow so pretty

[dancing_adrift]

Thank you so much! I'm happy you like it <3

[amberdreams]

People keep telling me tracing is perfectly legit, but I still can't shake the feeling that it's cheating somehow. Nice work being brave and going freehand!

[dancing_adrift]

Right??? I've seen nothing but people being totally cool about tracing since I joined LJ, but I can't shake that feeling either. Like, I won't judge other people if they do it, but boy oh boy will I judge myself if I do it. I feel like this is an art stigma that somehow snuck its way into my psyche? and I don't know when or how? lol. I definitely feel a higher sense of accomplishment when I freehand it, but either way I usually end up learning something, and it's nice to always be able to make improvements :)

[amberdreams]

I've been tracing some and freehanding others and I think the tracing has actually helped - something about the hand eye coordination/ muscle-memory maybe? Anyhow, I fight against my own prejudice every time I do it. LOL

[dancing_adrift]

Yes. This. All of this. It's only our own minds telling us it's not okay, not a useful tool, not a perfectly acceptable method. Blah! *shakes unhelpful prejudices from brain* You do you, however that is, and just keep on making beautiful art! <3