Spn_J2_BigBang 2011 - You are the one with your finger on the gun

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Spn_J2_BigBang 2011 - You are the one with your finger on the gun



 

Welcome to this art post for the fan fiction You are the one with your finger on the gun by akintay . If you want to read this great story, just click on the banner below!  

 
 

First, a big thank you to akintay ! The collaboration has been awesome from day one! And  thanks to wendy  and thehighwaywoman  too for organizing the whole challenge!

All the arts are available on Megaupload (too many arts to be posted separately on image shack)

WARNINGS:

- Be careful, some arts may be NSFW particularly, some of the soundtrack arts.
- The soundtrack arts can be spoilery so I advise you to read the story first. They are a kind of  summary of the story so beware of spoilers.

You will find in the file:

- The Main Arts: 5 CG paintings.
- The Arts for the soundtrack (download the songs separately below)
- The "small arts" (banners - divider - title, etc...)

DOWNLOAD THE ARTS HERE

Download the soundtrack HERE

 
Example of Arts:


 

Tool of the trade:

- Photoshop CS

- Paint Tool SAI

- Painter Essential 3

- Manga  Studio Debut (Title, divider, chapter and end title)

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THE STORY FROM HERE***

 

And inspiration for the divider and banners?

Yep! The movie Sucker Punch (go ahead, laugh ). It's far from being the best movie in the world but the book The Art of Sucker Punch was very inspirational in terms of "production design". In the movie, the main character Baby Doll has a katana with an engraving running all along the blade. According to the book, it's a summary of the character's life from the murder of her sister to her lobotomy at the end of the movie.

I applied the same principle to You are the one with your finger on the gun and to Sam and Dean's story. The divider follows chronologically what is happening in the fic: hunting, the fear of dying, love and hunting again.

 

I liked the font you used, where can I find it?

 

The font is called "Floydian" and is inspired by the font used on the cover of the Pink Floyds' albums. You can find it here: FLOYDIAN

 
That's funny, one of your soundtrack arts seems familiar...I have the impression that I saw it somewhere!

 

Well, you have...sort of! In the 2011 spn_j2_bigbang  post of lightthesparks  for the fic A List of Typos Made by God. I had already started to work on my art when she posted hers and I realized we both used the same reference picture for our BB arts as you can see it below. 

 

 

1) Original reference picture
2) Work bylightthesparks  for her BB
3) My work, for one of the soundtrack arts.

I asked her if it was ok for me to  use the same reference picture for my own BB because basically our arts would be quite similar but she kindly agreed and told me she would be delighted to see the result. Thanks a lot! 

The manip is very nice! Where can I see more?

At lightthesparks ' Live Journal. Click on the banner to see all her manips (= art tag):



 

No Photoshop Rambling PDF this time?

 

I'm really sorry, I didn't have the time! I was quite busy IRL  and fandom wise. However if you have technical questions, about the brushes, Manga Studio, etc..feel free to ask them. 

Voilà! I hope you enjoyed the fic but also this art post!

 

Comments

[akintay.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee, we finally posted!!! \o/

I told you this a million times, but the art is so beautiful. Every single piece you sent me over the last few months blew me away, hon. You really have an eye for detail - you manage to turn simple scenes into the most beautiful images, so full of emotions. And the atmosphere in the drawings makes me shudder. EVERYTHING IS SO PERFECT. I can't even choose which of the drawings is my favorite (though I do have a soft spot for young!Sam reading The Great Gatsby :D).

Thank you so, so much - for the wonderful art, but most of all for being such a sweet, nice person. Working with you was a blast ♥

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Yep, we posted!! Right on time \o/ It was so cool to be in the same time zone. I don't sleep a lot a night but staying up until VERY late to post at the same time as my author because they live in California for instance, can be a little bit exhausting sometimes ^^;;

Thank you for enjoying my art so much ^o^
There should have been 6 arts in the STR and then I kept on adding one and another one, and at the end I was like "Rhhooo, screw it, I am gonna go for 10 arts!!!". The hardest part was to choose what scene from the fic I was going to draw. There was so many things that inspired me even a simple line like "I think I moved your toothbrush the other day" ^o^

Thank you for being such a sweet, nice person.
You don't know me IRL. I am a very mean little person (huh..well no.just a bit..)

Thanks again for this great fic and for your kindness. I made you wait a bit for sending you the first arts but I preferred doing a "big delivery" than sending the drawings one by one ♥