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 ♥

[morgentau.livejournal.com]

Beautiful art! :-D Simply amazing! Thanks for mentioning what progs you used! :-)
And uhm... regarding technical questions, how the heck did you do it in general? ;-)
Did you do it from scratch or is it possible to put the reference pic as a base layer and work from there?
I have no clue how this works. :-/

[theron09.livejournal.com]

Amazing, amazing art! It goes so, so well with the fic and it's beautifully done. I love the piece with Sam reading The Great Gatsby, it's just how I imagined it when I read the fic :D

[frost.livejournal.com]

Good lord, your art is amazing...
♥

[secretlytodream.livejournal.com]

wow! Now I'm even more excited to read the fic! ^__^

[angelicfoodcake.livejournal.com]

EEEE! This looks awesome (as always ♥)
I'll have to take a look at the soundtrack pictures later, because I'm planning to read the story... (and'll come back with a longer comment then!)

THe idea for your divider and banner is awesome, btw!

[cherry916.livejournal.com]

Your art always blows my mind each and everytime

[tinkabell007.livejournal.com]

This is simply incredible!!! And I've been soooo looking forward to your guy's posting date!! OMG, every piece is just brilliant and so very detailed!! I love it, donwloaded it and will keep it forever and ever on my computer so I can look at it whenever I want!

[maichan.livejournal.com]

You obviously have awesome taste in references (see icon).

Another amazing set of art. It's hard to pick a fave, but I think I just might have to go with "Sam's List" due to my soft spot for Colin Ford. And OMG, the dividers are gorgeous. I love how clean and detailed the line art is.

[jojothecr.livejournal.com]

Just stunning! <3

[leyna55.livejournal.com]

The design of these are really stunning. I love the text and the general design of the soundrack pictures. My favourites are Nightmare (the text looks awesome!) and Sam in This is Gonna Hurt (The light on his face and hand , and the sense of motion in the flying books) I also like the ghostly woman, and the lightflare effect on Sam.

[violateraindrop]

Amazing art again <3
I couldn't help myself and already looked at the soundtrack (I was so happy to see Dead By Sunrise there) art and I love every piece of it.

The divider is great, especially how it includes the whole story.

[kros-21.livejournal.com]

this art is incredible.
the banner up there is amazing.
And I really like the you take the time to explain how you got to every single piece of work and what inspired you.

very cool! :)

[wirepatch.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, all so gorgeous! All of the art compliments the story so well, and of course all of your pictures are amazing and beautifully detailed as usual. I love the picture of young Sammy reading with Dean keeping an eye on him, it's so very Winchester and a wonderful addition to the collection for the story :)

[tdorian.livejournal.com]

Wow. The Art is incredibly beautiful. Did you draw the dividers too ? I'm asking because i'm a fan of skulls and these are splendids ! Great work. *applauds*

[cottrox.livejournal.com]

I just downloaded your art and I cried.

You are my new God.

;A;

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

*runs around in a circle flailing*

The sheer amount of art you produce added to the epic quality of it astounds me every single time. You are the best <333333

[lav123.livejournal.com]

Wonderful art. Really loved it.

[vongue.livejournal.com]

Well now here will be an incoherent word flow, because that's what you do to me
I remember by the way, I promised to come back to your previous BB post, but I just can't, I'm fooling around for so long and I still can't find words. This is the bad thing about you posting it all at once - I download it, and watch it and then I'm not myself anymore, I'm gurgling pink happy pool, trying not to burst into crying because of the overdose of beauty. So now I said to myself, that doesn't matter how stupid it would seem or how you don't actually need all this rambling - I'm gonna sit here and write whatever just comes to my pink pool that used to be brains
IT'S FABULOUS
IT"S AMAZING and breathtaking and adorable and all possible and impossible synonyms you can think of!
I love what you did with lighting, and use of typography and colors, and EVERYTHING sorry, I'm trying really hard not to keep capslock pressed permanently ><
The arts in "Soundtrack folder" I'm watching one by one with one eye closed, so I wouldn't explode right away
I'm so freaking speechless and it drives me nuts, because your art deserve singing and poems at least!
Thank you so much for being so insanely talented and amazing!!!

[anin2.livejournal.com]

normally i don't comment on or even bother with the art portion of a fic, but looking a the mini banner for this story, i just had to come and see more. and i'm i did because this is just lovely. do you work professionally or is this just a hobby?

[culper355.livejournal.com]

These are mindblowingly stunning! Absolutely Brilliant work!

[slothy-girl.livejournal.com]

this all looks so amazing hon!!! good job :D

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely brilliant. My feedback here is lacking in words only because I don't even know where to start. Brilliant, all of it. <3 <3 <3

[essene.livejournal.com]

*clappy hands* Downloading now. I'm so excited! Your work is AMAZING.

[cherie-morte.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, YOU DID SAMMY AND DEAN READING. OH MY GOD. STOP IT, I CANNOT EVEN. All of this art is really incredible, of course, but when I saw that piece, I straight up flailed. It was one of my favorite parts of the story, the way she showed how well Dean loved his Sammy from the get-go. I just...I want to curl up and live inside that art!

I love that you chose to bring out some creepiness in this, the way you made the art pieces of the promise Sam made Dean make recur and always so scary--it was such a perfect visual representation of how that promise haunts Dean throughout the story.

And I also was really happy to see how young Dean looks in the first kissing art from the soundtrack. You're so good at capturing details from stories in your work!