Fan Art : Smoke & Lightning - A Real Wild Child

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Fan Art : Smoke & Lightning - A Real Wild Child

 

 

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THE ART

Full size version available here : img829.imageshack.us/img829/8194/sllight.jpg

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RANDOM QUESTIONS

What's the concept ?

This is an illustration art for a J2 RPF AU called Smoke and Lightning, written by Misses shotgunpoetry  and eviltwin . In this story, tattoos and bod mod have an important place so I thought that showing a little bit of the boys' flesh ink wasn't a bad idea. I conceived the art like a book or a magazine cover.

If you want to know more about the Smoke and Lightning Verse you can check :

1) The fic Master Posts :

- Book One (Complete) : http://community.livejournal.com/arealwildchild/9553.html
- Book Two (Complete) : http://community.livejournal.com/arealwildchild/27680.html
- Book Three (In Progress) : http://community.livejournal.com/arealwildchild/52119.html

2) shotgunpoetry 's great photomanips on her Deviant Art page here :
http://bloodyadorable.deviantart.com/

Why did you post this fan art  in this account and not on your main one ? It's not erotic at all, no need to "hide" it!

Honestly ? It's just for the silly pleasure to update smallworld_inc   I love the layout and I wanted to add one more drawing to the Fan Art Master Post (childish and ridiculous, I know...)


Where did you get the inspiration from ?

I went to a tattoo convention in Tokyo last week, King of Tattoo 2010, and bought there a fantastic book by artist Shawn Barber. It made me feel like drawing hot boys with tattoos again and a fan art for arealwildchild  community and for Smoke and Lightning was just perfect. Not to mention that it's a phony pretext to draw the boys together, a thing I've never had the occasion to do for this fic. 

Just so you can have an idea, you can see below one of the most famous portraits by Shawn Barber



A portrait of Kat Von D (High Voltage Tattoo)  - oil painting on canvas

A pencil sketch for this drawing ?

Nope. An ink sketch actually, it was definitely quicker. However as it was just a try, I didn't bother to draw the tattoos. Starting with this kind of draft is actually pretty useful because it gave me the possibility to realize 3 things :

- the typo wasn't really adapted. I needed something more "old school" and less "graffiti" 
- the position of Jensen's left hand, the one behind his head,  was a little bit weird anatomically speaking (I changed it on the final version)
- the blue/purple palette doesn't work that good so I finally choose to use sepia and brown instead of blue and magenta.




Favorite thing to draw ?

The tattoos and Jensen's chest, definitely.

Most boring ?

The typo. It's not my cup of tea, honestly, but it's an important part of the picture so....

Reference pictures ?

Of course :

- Jared : i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc27/petite_madame/2nv7xtv.jpg
- Jensen : i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc27/petite_madame/unknownjax2.jpg

Softwares ?

Photoshop CS - Painter Essential 3
CG Painting (with paintover on some of the tattoos)

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Voilà!
See you soon

Comments

[becc-j.livejournal.com]

hello :D
So I was little too shy to comment on the last work you posted here, even though i knew it was you, sorry about that.
But I love this piece a lot. Wow, the tattoos!!!! They are so beautiful, I love the bird on Jensen's side. The colours are very very beautiful and I love the brushes you've used here, this is easily one of my favourites of your work. So stunning!
The pose looks really natural too, and Jared looks really possessive, hehe :D I've read a little of the fiction, and I think you caught the characters perfectly.

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Oh no, don't be sorry, I know that the first piece was hum...a little bit different from what I usually draw. I think that I read too many fan fictions : I went dark side and started to draw slash stuff even if I wasn't into that only one year ago. And you know what ? It's not that easy, particularly when it comes to, of course, anatomy...But it takes less time. I guess that when you don't have to draw people's clothes, things go faster ^^

Thanks a lot for the great comment ^^ As far as the brushes are concerned, I used mainly customed brushes because I just couldn't reach the result I wanted to with default brushes, for the rest I used the "oil painting" tool of Painter, that's why it actually have this "acrylic/oil painting" appeal.

Thanks for stopping by and for commenting becc ^^