Mith ([info]mithborien) wrote,
2008-07-09 12:59:00
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Fanart: Steam [ SPN - Gen ]

So this year I participated in the [info]spn_j2_bigbang as an artist.

Title: Steam
Artist: [info]mithborien
Medium: Ink + Digital



The story I created art for is:

Steam by [info]bellatemple

MASTER FIC POST

"Hell and Earth are empty. Do you think Heaven still has room?" The demons are gone, but at what cost? Sam and Dean make their way through a post-apocalyptic America, adapting the Impala and themselves as they go. It's a world of ghosts, mad men, and Victorian science, as Dean discovers he's a better mechanic than he has any right to be, and Sam that he has more power than he'd ever thought possible. They eventually make their way back home to Lawrence, only to find out that things aren't nearly as hopeless as they might've thought. The world can be fixed, all they have to do is make an impossible choice. A steampunk look at Supernatural, guest starring all the usual suspects, with an odd cameo by Samuel Colt and a leather-bound journal.

(Initial thoughts after reading that summary were: STEAMPUNK FTW! *comments to claim fic*)


THE ARTWORK







CLICK FOR BIGGER IMAGES


Notes: So, the above images are basically inks aged up in Photoshop. First, I got a couple of reference photos of the net, traced (I can't draw faces from real life and have them look like the people they're supposed to so tracing it is) them up, added all the necessary steampunk additions and copied them onto watercolour paper. I then got out the inks and started painting.

Initially I had planned to do both Sam and Dean entirely up in inks like I did the Impala but after finishing the Impala I remembered that inks don't come with an eraser nor Ctrl-Z and that I hadn't really done any hand-completed art for over six months. So I wasn't quite game enough to try their itty bitty faces in inks in case I stuffed it up and had to start again. So Sam and Dean remained black ink outlines but we do have the Impala in all it's pimped up, steampunked glory. Although I am quite happy with how the screaming Sam face came out.

And the reason why the inks change colours so much is that I couldn't be bothered mixing up a solid colour to work with. I just kept adding in more red or blue or green to some yellow as I went. Which was totally a stylistic choice to represent the need to adapt in an ever-changing steampunk landscape and not at all because I'm lazy. Totally not lazy.

I then inked in all the black lines (except I used a black pen for the faces because I knew I would stuff up with a brush) and the text. The text is excerpts from all the exorcism rituals they used on the show. What that symbolises within the context of the story, I am not sure but I sure as well wasn't translating anything else into latin. I used the typefaces Aquiline Two and Dear Theo as a guide but I painted the text to make sure it retained that hand-written look

Next I scanned the images into Photoshop. The parchment looking background was an image I had created previously to be used as stock so I just copy and pasted that in. I then darkened the background up in a few places, darkened and upped the contrast on the inked parts and did some overall colour corrections and voila! I was done.

Sorry, if I babbled on a lot. Years of having to write rationales for all my art/design projects will do that.


THE EXTRAS







Notes: These are just a couple of extra images I created for the actual story text: the title image, paragraph divider and an 'end' (that will make sense in the context of the story). The typeface for the title is Times New Yorker. These were created in much the same way as the artwork. Some of the text and images done first in inks, then scanned into Photoshop and played around with in there.

~

And now I can go read all the other Big bangs without feeling guilty that I hadn't completed my own...
Tags: big bang: spn, fanart: supernatural

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[info]bellatemple

July 9 2008, 07:42:23 UTC 3 years ago

I am in awe of your artistic skills. I actually did mini-sketches during the early days of this fic, before I knew it was my bigbang. . . . And yours definitely put mine to shame (my Dean looked like a bug).

I think the Impala might be my favorite. It is absolutely dead-on.

Thanks again!

[info]mithborien

July 9 2008, 08:01:54 UTC 3 years ago

Haha, Dean as a bug. I can actually imagine him all decked out in steampunk devices, like with mechanical wings and all. That would be pretty cool. I am quite pleased with how the Impala turned out as well. I'm it matched what you were thinking :)

[info]dollydolittle

July 9 2008, 11:36:53 UTC 3 years ago

Wow...Those are amazing.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:54:51 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]nyaubaby

July 9 2008, 12:07:17 UTC 3 years ago

Its pretty much amazing!!!!

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:55:40 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

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[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:55:50 UTC 3 years ago

Re: the art is really good

Glad to hear that :)

[info]elmo_loves_me

July 9 2008, 19:07:35 UTC 3 years ago

Holy crap these are awesome. I very much enjoyed your explanation, actually, because it looked like a lot of work was put into these and whaddaya know, I was right. The Impala is beautiful, but I have to say that I love Dean's goggles kind of an unholy amount.

Great job!!

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:58:10 UTC 3 years ago

I think everyone likes Dean's goggles.

Thank you for your comment :)

[info]marinarusalka

July 9 2008, 19:42:46 UTC 3 years ago

Wow, these are gorgeous.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:56:17 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]chase_acow

July 9 2008, 20:22:32 UTC 3 years ago

The impala is freakin' awesome! I was really interested to read your process. : ) Very lovely work, I'm excited to go read the story.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:57:27 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :) I was very pleased with how the Impala turned out as well and I'm always interested in how people create their art so I'm glad you were interested as well.

[info]smilla02

July 9 2008, 20:51:46 UTC 3 years ago

These are gorgeous. So beautiful, they really enance the experience of reading the story. Beautiful job!

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:58:24 UTC 3 years ago

Glad to hear that :)

[info]charlies_dragon

July 9 2008, 23:32:16 UTC 3 years ago

These are just, wow, totally wonderful.

I'm in complete awe at your skills and serious amounts of talent *stares some more*

Thanks so much for making and sharing these pics.

charlies_dragon

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:58:44 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you for your comment :)

[info]diurnal_lee

July 10 2008, 01:55:14 UTC 3 years ago

Awesome. The car looks all badass, and Sam looks all flamey and screamy and crazy, and Dean's tool belt and ragged hems! The art just totally fits the wrecked fun of the story.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 09:01:27 UTC 3 years ago

Hee, 'wrecked fun' is a term I hadn't thought of but that does fit pretty well. Thank you :)

[info]livrelibre

July 10 2008, 03:51:32 UTC 3 years ago

These are great and fit so well with the story. I especially like the Sam one.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 09:01:36 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]lucky_sometimes

July 10 2008, 06:33:37 UTC 3 years ago

Great art - I specially liked the divider, and the 'Screamer' blend into Sam's flares - very nice. Complemented the story very well, I thought. Frankly I liked the art just as much as I liked the story.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:59:46 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :) I'm glad the Screamer art worked so well.

[info]ulkis

July 10 2008, 14:59:55 UTC 3 years ago

The artwork is really cool and beautiful. Great job!

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 08:59:55 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]concernedlily

July 10 2008, 21:35:52 UTC 3 years ago

Hi, I commented on the story about the art so I'm just going to repeat myself here, hope that's ok :). The art is beautiful - I love Sam's legs melting into Dean. It's very original, following the story, and I like how it references both the framing story of Sam Colt writing the journal and some of the most memorable moments and ideas from the main plot. I love the effect of the handwriting, as well; it has the feel of a genuine artefact, oart of someone's life, as well as so perfectly complementing the story.

[info]mithborien

July 11 2008, 09:03:12 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :) I'm glad the art fits so well with the story. I think in a collaboration like this that's it's important that both the art and story work well together and I'm so glad that it did so for you.

[info]twasadark

July 12 2008, 17:42:12 UTC 3 years ago

AMAZING art!! I'm very impressed. :-)

[info]mithborien

July 14 2008, 08:38:22 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]tabaqui

July 12 2008, 18:30:55 UTC 3 years ago

Oh, very cool. Love the color pallet. Lovely stuff. The goggles! Heh. And the Metallicar with treads! So freaky but good. :)

[info]mithborien

July 14 2008, 08:39:09 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :) It was quite surreal for myself when I was drawing the treads on.

[info]counteragent

July 12 2008, 21:31:20 UTC 3 years ago

Beautiful! Especially love Sam's screaming head and the Impala and the STEAM typeface done in stains.

[info]mithborien

July 14 2008, 08:39:20 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]meret

July 13 2008, 16:12:46 UTC 3 years ago

These are terrific! Wonderful work! :)

[info]mithborien

July 14 2008, 08:39:31 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]fadagaski

July 13 2008, 20:30:25 UTC 3 years ago

These are so unbelievably amazing. I honestly think they're the best to come out of BigBang this year. HOMG. Such detail, and stylising, and general awesomeness. I'm not an arty person so I can't harp on much about technique, but know that this non-arty girl thinks these are a STUNNING addition to the story, and completely amazing in their own right too.

[info]mithborien

July 14 2008, 08:40:00 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you so much :) That's an awesome comment.

[info]rinkle

July 28 2008, 23:24:15 UTC 3 years ago

Those are absolutely gorgeous.

[info]lamis_p

August 6 2008, 08:36:55 UTC 3 years ago

Those are incredible, fantastic work!

[info]faithintheboys

August 15 2008, 19:29:50 UTC 3 years ago

Totally awesome. I loved the story and this was perfect for it!

[info]lemmealone

September 17 2008, 07:16:37 UTC 3 years ago

Oh, man. Wow. The art is PERFECT, both for the story and on its own merits. Just gorgeous.

[info]giandujakiss

October 11 2008, 11:09:53 UTC 3 years ago

Hey, just wanted to let you know these pics were rec'd at [info]crack_impala. They're stunning; thank you.

[info]dreamlittleyo

October 11 2008, 15:23:54 UTC 3 years ago

Beautiful!
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