I participated in the deancasbigbang this year.

I chose missjigsaw23’s fic the “Empire of the Lion and the Wolf.” I was, obviously (as otherwise I wouldn’t have chosen the prompt), intrigued by the premise.


The route and traveling are integral to Supernatural and fanfic, looking for answers, running from enemies… Missjigsaw23’s fic touches on these. I’m looking forward to reading the whole fic and finding out those answers.











( Struggle. )

I read this is utterly cute kidfic by olympia_m

It appealed to me and I felt the urge to draw \o/

Rating: g
Spoilers: none


I’m dedicating this to bluespirit_star because she’s awesome.





( Smite your ass. )

So I was surfing (aka lurking) and I was on strangeandcharm LJ and she had written: "Every time I type the word 'wendigo' my Word insists that I really meant to write 'wedgies'.

Boy, would that be a different story...






I haven’t managed to figure out chibis yet – soon though.

This piece was previously posted in the Christmas gift exchange at the sga_art_santa. The gift request was pretty broad: slash/mcshep. Given room to play I drew this:





This was interesting to draw. I was a wee bit rushed for time so, yes, the background is a picture of a chasm which I put through a watercolour filter, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got the image from -- somewhere on the web. I tried a lot of different Photoshop filters wanting to blur out and make the boys come to the fore-front. The background then became the lowest layer in the Firework MX's image I was drawing and I tweaked and shaded a little bit.

There isn't a lot of pics to use as reference points for John hanging precipitously over a chasm. In fact I couldn't find a single one, so I used my trusty wooden opposable doll:





This did, however, result in John's head been really, really big in the first draft. Luckily, Firework's comes with a really efficient rubber.

This is for elayna88 who writes the most entertaining fic, which I reread and reread.



This is the final instalment of my handmade meme \O/!

A couple of folk asked to see Dean in armour



I use a programme called Fireworks to create art, I believe that there are fewer tools (e.g. brushes) than Photoshop, but the principle's the same. Any rate, I usually just use the airbrush and charcoal tool to colour and the basic-soft rounded line tool to draw lines and I use the rubber A LOT. I create a picture by pulling together layers of different aspects. I draw lines in one layer, colour in another etc. It can get complicated with upwards of ten plus layers and multiple sublayers but that means that you can use the rubber with impunity.

I always knew when I was drawing Michael's Sword that the archangel's armour would be overlaid, transparently over a black, trench coated wearing Dean. Hey, Castiel wears a white trench coat, a black trench coat is... evocative. So I had an armour painting in one of the layers, I then basically rubbed the layer out with a rubber but I reduced the intensity depending on how much of the armour I wanted to 'poke' through. This also explains why the armour drawning is a little ropey in a couple of places.

Unsurprisingly, I keep the paintings of all the different main layers, so it’s relatively easy to pull together Dean in Armour.


Belatedly, it occurs to me that rubber has a different meaning in different parts of the world, but since we're talking about Angel Condoms, what the heck.

Rubber = eraser.

Tags: art, spn

Rating: PG
Supernatural Season 5 art.
Speculative-based potential spoilers….




( Michael's Sword. )

This is for bluespirit_star as part of my handmade meme. I’m a hairsbreadth in the ‘It'll be done this year” criteria. I haven’t forgotten about art for elayna88, but I figure that the “It'll be done this year” can be possibly extended a wee, little bit…

I promised that I would ice the Christmas Cake this year. I couldn’t resist. The first time in FOREVER due to: school; long hours; no Christmas holidays other than just the main days.... This year is a proper holiday of an extended period of utter indulgence. So cake…. I got to thinking what I would like to do and voila

Guess the fandoms!





( Clicky for close-up marzipan madness. )