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Welcome to the art post for Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine, a fanbook drawn for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_cinema and inspired by the movie by Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .
You can download the whole package HERE (there are white pages in the middle of the fanbook, it's normal. Carry on reading after those pages. The last page is page 71)
Yes, I know, I know, it's a bit hard to access my art once again, you have to go to Mediafire to download a zip file but it's the only solution I found to make you enjoy more than 70 pages of art and fic as I couldn't upload so many pages one by one on Imageshack. Believe me, it's more convenient this way.
Some art you can find in the booklet:
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Acknowledgments
A BIG thank you to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
akintay who betaed this (I lied to her, poor girl. I told her it was short and that it wouldn't take long. She ended up with tons of art and a big Word document full of spelling and grammar mistakes. 
)
A big thank you too toobstinatrix who was the "Reader 0".
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Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine - Trivia
This part of the post contains spoilers
How long did it take?
About one month and an half, almost two months. A bit every night and during the weekends. However, I used some sketches I already had in some of my sketchbooks and that had nothing to do with this prompt like for instance the sneakers on page 13: they belong to my boyfriend (and IRL, they are green and horrible as if the brand Onitsuka Tiger used the skin of this poor Kermit The Frog to make those shoes)
Did you work on your own?
I didn't think I would write so much (hell, I didn't think I would draw so much! I planned to draw 15 pages and ended up with 71. Don't ask
). When I reached the 3/4 of this project, I realized I couldn't do it on my own. I'm not an author and I am an ESL so I let you imagine the disaster of the very first version I wrote. I asked for some help on Twitter and akintay kindly offered to help me and betaed the English to make it flow and less "Frenglish" (I'm French).
Most complicated pages?
- 32-33-34-35: all these pages were drawn using graphite on paper and it was really difficult. It requires precision and patience. Sometimes, I have none of the two.
Most simple pages?
- Page 11: just the word "nothing" written in the middle of the page.
- Page 47: It's just a beach with a tiny character in the middle. It didn't take long.
Some sketches (some I used, some I didn't have the time to)
- Jensen and his cat in 2013
- Dr Collins
- A draft for one of the comic pages on Part II
- The very first page, that changed a lot since :3
- Detailed ballpoint pen sketch of p.19
Some fails?
A lot! It's impossible not to fail when you draw 70 pages (except when your name is Alan Lee or Adam Hughes). There were two kinds of fails:
1) Completely failed art (problem of likeness, anatomy, body proportions, shadows and highlights, etc).
When you draw Misha and that your boyfriend, who likes Cas' a lot, asks you: "who's that?", you know that it's time to start all over again. Here are some examples with on the left, the original page and on the right, the finished product.
I found the faces on the left horrible. The likeness was off and they didn't convey anything, at least not the joy of a happy couple playing under the snow. However, the cat was cute. ^^
Another example with Misha, here.
2) Art that didn't match the rest.
When I started this project, I wanted to draw everything with a ballpoint pen, like a real diary. It was fun at the start but it became quickly monotonous. Not enough colors, always the same textures. It was pleasant to draw but I didn't find it very pleasant to read. I was afraid the reader would find it boring too. I decided to introduce some digital art. Little by little, the ballpoint pen art didn't fit the rest so I started to replace it progressively by CG art done in Photoshop.
The first version wasn't bad but when you take the diary as a whole, it didn't match the rest of the images.
Same problem as above. Not bad but it didn't match the rest of the diary and was too minimalistic.
Drawing all these items from J2's everyday life was a lot of fun but drawing Jared (or Jensen) is better. I thought that this page could use one of the Js to make it less boring.
From page 61, I wanted to draw everything a bit "manga style" by using a cel-shading coloring except that I forgot a tiny detail: I suck at cel-shading
. Everything I draw using this technique looks a bit flat so I forgot about cel-shading, just kept the black line art and colored the picture as if it was a digital painting. I used the grey scale technique. Here is for instance the first version of Page 63.
I didn't like Misha's face either so I redrew the last panel. The letters N.F were to tell Akintay that the art was "Not Finished" when I sent her for a first beta.
Some pages in the middle were photo manipulations. It was to show Jared's return to real life (not the diary). They showed Jared waking up slowly and hanging around in his house in his pajamas. Once again, I thought they didn't match the rest, they seemed out of place. I got rid of them pretty quickly. In addition, I suck at photomanips.
Tools of the trade?
A lot of things! Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, Painter 12, for the digital side and ballpoint pens and pencils for the traditional side. For the CG art, I used this brush set by Mar-Ka.
Voilà!! I hope you enjoyed this post and that you had a lot of fun reading this fanbook (I have no idea how to call this thing actually!!)
And..oh, apparently, there's one last page!
Welcome to the art post for Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine, a fanbook drawn for
spn_cinema and inspired by the movie by Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .You can download the whole package HERE (there are white pages in the middle of the fanbook, it's normal. Carry on reading after those pages. The last page is page 71)
Yes, I know, I know, it's a bit hard to access my art once again, you have to go to Mediafire to download a zip file but it's the only solution I found to make you enjoy more than 70 pages of art and fic as I couldn't upload so many pages one by one on Imageshack. Believe me, it's more convenient this way.
Some art you can find in the booklet:
***
Acknowledgments
A BIG thank you to
akintay who betaed this (I lied to her, poor girl. I told her it was short and that it wouldn't take long. She ended up with tons of art and a big Word document full of spelling and grammar mistakes. )A big thank you too to
obstinatrix who was the "Reader 0".***
Jared Padalecki's Eternal Sunshine - Trivia
This part of the post contains spoilers
How long did it take?
About one month and an half, almost two months. A bit every night and during the weekends. However, I used some sketches I already had in some of my sketchbooks and that had nothing to do with this prompt like for instance the sneakers on page 13: they belong to my boyfriend (and IRL, they are green and horrible as if the brand Onitsuka Tiger used the skin of this poor Kermit The Frog to make those shoes)
Did you work on your own?
I didn't think I would write so much (hell, I didn't think I would draw so much! I planned to draw 15 pages and ended up with 71. Don't ask
). When I reached the 3/4 of this project, I realized I couldn't do it on my own. I'm not an author and I am an ESL so I let you imagine the disaster of the very first version I wrote. I asked for some help on Twitter and akintay kindly offered to help me and betaed the English to make it flow and less "Frenglish" (I'm French).Most complicated pages?
- 32-33-34-35: all these pages were drawn using graphite on paper and it was really difficult. It requires precision and patience. Sometimes, I have none of the two.
Most simple pages?
- Page 11: just the word "nothing" written in the middle of the page.
- Page 47: It's just a beach with a tiny character in the middle. It didn't take long.
Some sketches (some I used, some I didn't have the time to)
- Jensen and his cat in 2013
- Dr Collins
- A draft for one of the comic pages on Part II
- The very first page, that changed a lot since :3
- Detailed ballpoint pen sketch of p.19
Some fails?
A lot! It's impossible not to fail when you draw 70 pages (
1) Completely failed art (problem of likeness, anatomy, body proportions, shadows and highlights, etc).
When you draw Misha and that your boyfriend, who likes Cas' a lot, asks you: "who's that?", you know that it's time to start all over again. Here are some examples with on the left, the original page and on the right, the finished product.
I found the faces on the left horrible. The likeness was off and they didn't convey anything, at least not the joy of a happy couple playing under the snow. However, the cat was cute. ^^
Another example with Misha, here.
2) Art that didn't match the rest.
When I started this project, I wanted to draw everything with a ballpoint pen, like a real diary. It was fun at the start but it became quickly monotonous. Not enough colors, always the same textures. It was pleasant to draw but I didn't find it very pleasant to read. I was afraid the reader would find it boring too. I decided to introduce some digital art. Little by little, the ballpoint pen art didn't fit the rest so I started to replace it progressively by CG art done in Photoshop.
The first version wasn't bad but when you take the diary as a whole, it didn't match the rest of the images.
Same problem as above. Not bad but it didn't match the rest of the diary and was too minimalistic.
Drawing all these items from J2's everyday life was a lot of fun but drawing Jared (or Jensen) is better. I thought that this page could use one of the Js to make it less boring.
From page 61, I wanted to draw everything a bit "manga style" by using a cel-shading coloring except that I forgot a tiny detail: I suck at cel-shading
. Everything I draw using this technique looks a bit flat so I forgot about cel-shading, just kept the black line art and colored the picture as if it was a digital painting. I used the grey scale technique. Here is for instance the first version of Page 63.I didn't like Misha's face either so I redrew the last panel. The letters N.F were to tell Akintay that the art was "Not Finished" when I sent her for a first beta.
Some pages in the middle were photo manipulations. It was to show Jared's return to real life (not the diary). They showed Jared waking up slowly and hanging around in his house in his pajamas. Once again, I thought they didn't match the rest, they seemed out of place. I got rid of them pretty quickly. In addition, I suck at photomanips.
Tools of the trade?
A lot of things! Photoshop, Paint Tool SAI, Painter 12, for the digital side and ballpoint pens and pencils for the traditional side. For the CG art, I used this brush set by Mar-Ka.
Voilà!! I hope you enjoyed this post and that you had a lot of fun reading this fanbook (I have no idea how to call this thing actually!!
)And..oh, apparently, there's one last page!
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Date: 2012-05-01 08:54 pm (UTC)EDIT: OK OMG I am freaking out because this is so fucking good. OMG I just love this to pieces. I've never seen the movie that inspired this but I figure I probably should, because this is so precious and ingenuous! So much better than the average fic.Wow! It seems I can't say much, I'm just shocked, I will treasure this forever because this is truly a masterpiece.
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Date: 2012-05-02 07:27 am (UTC)I'm sure you are going to enjoy the movie. I simplified the storyline a lot because 71 pages were already enough but the movie is far less schmoopy and complex. The special effects are beautiful too, as it's always the case in Gondry's movies. If you have the occasion to watch it, just do it ♥
I'm very happy you enjoyed my fanbook so much! I worked very hard so your comment really cheers me up (and you were the first one to comment ^^)
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Date: 2012-05-01 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 07:29 am (UTC)I am all red, blushing in a little corner :3
Thank you so much for your great comment about my fanbook!
I'm very happy you enjoyed it ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:01 pm (UTC)I just can't stop myself from saying once again how much I adore you and your possibilities of working that hard, it's something incredible and beyond my understanding. And more than that, not only you are great and talanted artist, but you also have patient to share tips, info about technical process and interesting stuff like "before" and "after" again and again, not to mention how careful and responsive you are to your watchers, wasting time on answering each and one of them and
and
and
it's precious, really
no smileys (despite I know how much you love them!), because I'm as serious as possible
you're precious and unique and je t'aime jusqu'aux étoiles =)))
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:03 pm (UTC)patient=patience, I meant
Well, you may have a patient as well... XDDD God, me and my English =))))
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 07:50 am (UTC)Thanks a lot for your great comment about my art post for spn-cinema ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:11 pm (UTC)I'll come back later after I've downloaded the file and took a long look at everything, just wanted to do a quick "WOW!"-post :)
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Date: 2012-05-02 07:56 am (UTC)I hope you will enjoy the fanbook ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 07:53 am (UTC)I love your icon! With guys like that, we don't even need Photoshop to have images of them hugging and sharing some kind of PDA ^o^
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:13 pm (UTC)Fantastic work, as always!!!
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Date: 2012-05-02 07:54 am (UTC)Thank you so much for your great comment about my fanbook.
I'm very happy you liked the final result ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:17 pm (UTC)You are AMAZING. End of.
(That said, I can't wait to get home and download this epic masterpiece!)
ETA: Magnificent, that's what this is. Just perfect. You drew all this gorgeous work AND wrote the story, too? You're not human, are you?
*massive hugs* This is fantastic and beautiful and WOW. Thank you for this.
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:00 am (UTC)Yes, I did both but I am not a native English speaker so it was very hard for me. I had to ask some help to a friend to beta my English. In addition, I speak much more English-English and not American-English so I needed someone to help me get rid of all the Briticisms. :)
I wrote and drew simultaneously to reach a coherent result :D
You're not human, are you?
I'm a droid. Maybe the one you were looking for. But don't tell my parents.
Thank you for this.
Thank YOU for the great comment about my fanbook! I am very happy you enjoyed it so much ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:04 am (UTC)I am also made of chocolate cookies, M&M's and Coca Cola ^^
I'm very happy you loved the final result and that I made the movie justice. It was very hard because the narration isn't linear in the movie and I had to rewrite everything to make it coherent and easy to illustrate. I was afraid I made the storyline less interesting ^^;;
Thank you so much for you very kind words about my art!! ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:05 am (UTC)I love the art in your icon! :D
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:30 pm (UTC)It was perfect.
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:10 am (UTC)Thank you!! ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:18 am (UTC)Oh god yes ^^;; Two whole months. I couldn't see the end of this project but I was so happy and excited to work on it that I did everything to finish it on time ^^;;
Thank you so much for you for your kind words about my spn_cinema prompt ^^
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:12 am (UTC)Thanks a lot for your kind words about my spn-cinema prompt ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 09:45 pm (UTC)bon 1 mai.
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:13 am (UTC)Merci beaucoup pour le commentaire très sympa ♥
J'espère que le 1er mai était bon aussi ^^
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Date: 2012-05-01 10:10 pm (UTC)Thanks SOOOO much for sharing!
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:22 am (UTC)Thanks SOOOO much for sharing!
Thank YOU for being so enthusiastic and enjoying my art post so much!! ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 10:32 pm (UTC)*pokes computer, hurry damn you i wanna see the arts!!*
I cant wait to see all this hard work finally realized :D
oh I have to say I love the inverted color on the sketches with the manic panic, and the watch and camera pages making them look like a negative, it's so much more effective !
ooooooh download's done! *runs to look at arts*
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:35 am (UTC)Oh really? I've been using this thing for years but maybe you have different hair products in Australia. It's really great! It stays longer on your hair than the average "hair dye with eccentric colors". Stargazer is very good too ♥
I cant wait to see all this hard work finally realized :D
I hope you will enjoy the final result ^^ The download will maybe take some time (about 15 minutes I think)
oh I have to say I love the inverted color on the sketches
Oh thank you, I wanted it to look like some kind of Xray so that people could see what is going on in Jared's head ^o^
Thank a lot for your great comment about my art Winnie ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 09:15 am (UTC)I hope you will enjoy this fanbook :D
Thank you so much for your kind words about my art ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 10:45 pm (UTC)Overall, panels 19 and 36 are my favorites. The layout on 19 is stellar and 36 so poignantly captures the emotion.
And now that I've got the SRS stuff out of the way... lemme just take a moment to SQUEE mindlessly about Jensen's fingerless gloves, Jared's hair in panels 56-60, Happy Rainbow Chibi!Jensen, and the Animal cake topper <33333
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Date: 2012-05-02 09:12 am (UTC)Oh really, the 36? I wasn't very sure about this one and about the "fading effect" on the borders, thank you!!
Just take a moment to SQUEE mindlessly about Jensen's fingerless gloves
Clementine in the movie has the same gloves ^^ I wanted to keep some elements from the movie like the clothes (Jensen has roughly the same clothes as Kate Winslet ^^). Jensen should have had ridiculous hair colors too but it was too much work to include this element in the fanbook.
Happy Rainbow Chibi!Jensen
This one started on a big "I am fed up of this fanbook". I had a moment of discouragement when reaching the end. In the middle of the comic I started to doodle stupid chibies and then I thought: "Hey!! Why not?!". I think that the cherry on the top of
the cakecrazy is the clouds that say "I'm leaving!!" and the stars that screams "sadness, go away". People will think I am nuts ^^;;;Animal cake topper <33333
It took me time to find something crazy enough to be on the top of that cake ^o^ It should have been Kermit, then Mike from Monster Inc and then, I though about Animal because Animal is just awesome and so, SO Rock n' Roll! ^o^
Thank you SO Much for your kind words about my fanbook and for taking the time to leave such a detailed comment ♥
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Date: 2012-05-01 11:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:37 am (UTC)I love your icon. J2 look so cute in it ^^
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Date: 2012-05-01 11:46 pm (UTC)You are so talented. Thank you for continuing to share with us.
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Date: 2012-05-02 09:02 am (UTC)Thank you so much ^^ It's just that sometimes I am a little bit too demanding and I have ridiculously high standards when it comes to my own work. When I don't think it's good enough, the art dies painfully in the depths of my HD xD
Thank you so much for your kind words about my art ♥
I'm very happy you enjoyed it ^^
HA!HA!! OMG your icon!! Jensen looks SO "Miami Vice" with his glasses and this pose xD
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Date: 2012-05-01 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:23 am (UTC)I'm very happy you enjoyed it!!
Thank you so much ♥
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:22 am (UTC)Thank you so much ♥
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:46 am (UTC)Thank you! :D
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Date: 2012-05-02 08:24 am (UTC)Thank YOU for your kind words about my fanbook ♥
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:43 am (UTC)I was afraid it was too schmoopy. I don't know what "middle ground" means actually: my art is either super cheesy or very sad (everybody dies ^^;;)
Thank you so much for your kind words about my art ♥
I'm very happy you enjoyed this fanbook :)
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:38 am (UTC)I'm very happy you enjoyed my fanbook!!
Thank you so much for your kind words about my art post ♥