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

[weimar27.livejournal.com]

very cool. I like the way you posed them.

The tatoos were nice too. :)

[transfixeddream.livejournal.com]

You could've shown us another foot below them, then it'd have fit here!

But in all seriousness, this is gorgeous. I LOVE their pose, and the way Jared's saying MINE! I don't follow the story anymore but this is lovely. <3<3

[marciaelena.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a fan of tattoos and piercings, but this is gorgeous. I really love their faces, especially Jared's.

[kruel_angel_lj]

Wow... just... wow! That is friggin' amazingly beautiful! I seriously can't stop staring at it. Awesome job!

[nalynn-jd.livejournal.com]

God this looks glorious! I love the pose, tattoos and this is exactly how i figure them to myself. They are so cute and lovable. I've almost finished Book 1 and I'm so in love with this story, the boys and now with your picture too! <3
Thank you so much for sharing. *waves* Lynn

[stormcloude]

Wow, that's really gorgeous. I especially love the expression on Jared's face.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Just gorgeous..:D

Um.. though I'm confused (not hard for me *g*) you and petite-madame same person yeah? So this is your new user name?

Anyway - I haven't been able to stop staring. Fabulous work.
xx

[alena2b.livejournal.com]

wow! looks awesome!! great work!

edit: wait.. wait.. you're petite-madam? cause if you are, that would make sense. cause when i saw the pic i thought of petite-madam, but the saw a different name and i was like.. O_O hmmm... my bad then. lol

[alishatorn.livejournal.com]

This is such a beautiful painting! Very very hot stuff. :D

[siberian-angel.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love how you brought out Jared's eyes - they look almost alive!

[txrabbit.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing it with us!

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot ♥
I really enjoyed drawing the tattoos, it's always a lot of fun =)

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Ha! Ha! I knew that someone would told me at a moment or another that I didn't crop the image properly and that I should have shown a little bit more skin XD You're right, it would have been better for this account ^^

I LOVE their pose, and the way Jared's saying MINE
That comment just makes me so happy because that's what I wanted to show with Jared's eyes as if he was saying precisely "Mine!" \o/

Thanks a lot for the lovely comment ♥

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot ♥
I am a Jensen!girl but I must admit I prefer Jared too on the pic, probably because of his eyes that seem to say "mine!" ^^

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for the comment about my work ♥
Oh God...Your icon will never get old...look at that *drooling*

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

I've just finished Book II and I finally started Book III but I am progressing quite slowly. I drew them as they are in Book II and III actually, a little bit older. I loved the idea (and in addition, it was a pretext to draw the boys as they are now with tattoos ^^)
Thanks a lot for stopping by and for the great comment about my art ♥

SPN Boys

[neenj61.livejournal.com]

Beautiful work.Thanks for sharing.

[mysticwaters.livejournal.com]

You created possessive!Jared so perfectly. UNF. They are so gorgeous together. Thanks for sharing your art!

[tinkabell007.livejournal.com]

Oh that is simply stunning!!!!!

[silvershe-wolf.livejournal.com]

This is gorgeous. Can't stop looking at it. Esp love Jared in this.

[jespretender.livejournal.com]

Blimey! Just oozes yum! Gorgeous! Your art is incredible.

[expectative.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's gorgeous!

Bon, ok, mais vocabulaire anglais est assez limité donc je passe en français si ça te dérange pas! Oui, oui, je suis un feignasse. J'adore le niveau de détail, que ce soit au niveau des tatouages ou de leurs visages. Leurs expressions sont juste parfaites, totalement en accord avec l'idée qu'on se fait des personnages en lisant l'histoire!

Après, je suis pas tout à fait sûr d'accrocher au sépia mais c'est qu'un détail!

J'ai franchement hâte de voir ce que vont donner tes deux projets pour le reverse bang (quand je pense que je poste le même jour que toi... j'ai honte xD)

[tygers.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic! I love the intimacy of it, in the tangle of their arms, and the way the light plays on their faces. The boys' expressions are wonderful, Jared's slightly possessive and Jensen's contentment. He looks almost somewhat...proud?

Lovely work, and thanks so much for sharing this with us.

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Beautifully done!

[velvetsun.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure how I missed this on my flist, but again gorgeous. I love the possessive nature of Jared's stance as well as Jensen's expression. I can't really explain it, but it just grips me and pulls me into it. And the tattoos are beautifully done. How long did this one take you from start to finish?