SPN: Time and Place

I have the worst artblock.

It’s driving me insane, I’ve had three pictures I should have had done weeks ago, and every time i opened photoshop I just sat there, starring at the rough sketch or the blank bloody document and it just stared back. Waiting, insolent and smug, asking ‘whatcha gonna do eh? whatcha gonna do?’ and I just didn’t bloody know- so I took the high road and closed that little bitch of a program, and went back to watching Battlestar Galatica.

It’s been productive week to say the least…

I’m halfway through season two though.

But this was due today! And I guess the deadline got my ass in gear, because I started this at 10 30 last night, and posted it just in time by 3am. My plan for an early night kinda fell to pieces, kinda like the first sketch I had planned to finish, but luckily this one came together from scratch. I fell back on the background, and that alone is astounding- I used to HATE backgrounds, activley avoided them. They’re where painful, cruel, fiddely and just too big and now? I made the characters as small as possible because I just couldn’t be fucked and went to town with the rest of it.

Characters are usually my happy place.

Times are ‘a’changing.

Still got two more pictures I’ve gotta get done, but my hands a touch stiff this ‘morning so im going to take today off, head to see RedDawn with a mate, and hopefully get some sleep tonight with the party my Roomates hosting :/

Anywho, theres a little ficlet to go with the picture below the line

Hope you’ve all had a good one and are feeling creative and fresh!

~Jess

‘Stralian Santa

So I’m getting reallllyy tired of all the snowy Christmas songs. Next shop I go into thats playing jinglebells? I’ll Jingle THEIR bells. The pictures of people snuggled up in thick knit wool jumpers and scarves? The holly and mistletoe? Why the hell do we have snow speckled garlands in every bloody shop?! I mean, every time I see Santa in that big red fury suit of his I feel the temperature wrack up a few degrees, I’m sick of the sympathy heatstroke! Take off a few layers man!

Christmas in Australia is smack bang RIGHT in the middle of summer.

Its bloody HOT.

And yet all the Xmas stuff is still winter themed?! Come on guys, we’re not dreaming of a white Christmas in Australia. Okay, maybe a white HOT Christmas but think about it for a second- why can’t we rebrand it? Why hasn’t it already been rebranded?! We see the occasional white Kangaroo pulling the sleigh, but it’s still a ‘SLEIGH’.

For me, Christmas is about Prawns, Mangos, Lychees, Cherrys, Family and bitching about how it’s too hot to go to the beach! Lets make Christmas about sand instead of snow, and have Santa surfing  instead of sledding, lets trim off his beard because he’s got no time to untangle that shit after a good session in the waves, lets give him a few reindeer tats and a set of sunnie tan lines.

I’d love for my man Santa to be able to cope in our climate.

So heres my re imaging of Mr Claws, all singlets and sunburn.

So High Tidings and a Happy New year!

p.s And the irony that this theme snows on Christmas? Fucking priceless. :/

SPN: Farmstead: First Snow

Fun colour pallet to work with! I’ve been focusing on warmer colours for so long that i’d almost forgotten about the whoolllleee other side of the spectrum, which is ridiculous becasue my favourite colour is teal!

So heres a snowy teal picture.

Being Australian, haven’t really gotten the chance to examine snow or snowy weather, but i hope I managed to get a bit of that ‘on coming storm/cold snap’ vibe.

This is part of my online prompt based Supernatural AU: The Farmstead, which is steadily becoming my happy place. Its also the best background and consistency project i’ve ever attempted, I used to HATE backgrounds. Now its my favourite part of drawing a scene, background, lighting, and of course figures.  I’m using the Farmstead as a tool, an exercise, in developing this new style which my arm is so happy with, and I’m  finding that i’m just loving the technical side of it! Focusing on perspective and playing with distance and mood as well as my usual story telling has been a ball.

And now I really need to get back to my Nano! Im falling behind and I’m determined to make it to the 50k again this year! So onward! CHARGE!

P.S a little ficlet below the cut

Giswhes: A trebuchet.

Item 112. Build a mechanical catapult that sends a pumpkin more than 100 feet across an open field. MUST be mechanical.

…

A trebuchet.

We built a trebuchet.

Out of 30 meters of rope, a tree, a bin, a hack saw, a swiss army knife, a goal post, the handle bars of a scooter, and sky potatoes.

And it BLOODY WELL worked! We threw that butternut about 28 metres!

Thank you Gishwhes!

Giswhes: Misha, a single stallion, The Queen, and steampunk fashion.

 

Item 35.

Can i just say, Misha Collins is glorious. I love that he uses his powers over his puppets for good; with random art and acts of kindness. He realised how much influence his fan base held and decided to make something of it.

He came from nothing, was homeless for a short time as a child until a family friend offered his family a room at their farm, this inspired Random Acts. He had an internship at the white house, built his house and all his furniture, is a published poet, created his wedding rings, and there are so many more things that just prove he is just a generally beautiful human being.

After meeting him, I can also say that he is ridiculously kind to his often rabid fans.

I for one, am proud to call myself his Minon.

P.S: There are too many limbs in this bloody picture- why are horses so damn hard to draw!

 

 

Gishwhes: Skittles.

So.

Many.

Skittles.

Item 40: Create a portrait of Jensen Ackles doing his ‘Blue Steel’ out of skittles, must be 2 foot x 2 foot.

So I left my ‘two feet’ in the picture for good measure, to be witty and to show how bloody big this thing was!

God damn, we were eating skittles for days.

I don’t even LIKE skittles!

…well, I didn’t after five days.

Gishwhes

Gishwhes was a thing of beauty.

Crazy, chaotic, random, creative beauty!

We had a week to create, find, and record 157 items in teams of 15 for Random acts, a charity created by Misha Collins, which is all about random acts of kindness, and has been helping a lot of people in Haiti.

May i just say that my lovely team: Team Auzombies, with exams and full time jobs, did an amazing job and i’m so proud to be a part of this group! We managed 47 of the items, and I wanted to share a few of my favourite ones with you!

This! Is Item 80.

‘Create a spaghetti gun and woven spaghetti hunting jacket and pose with it’. The gun was easy, with enough elastic bands anything is possible! But the jacket! The jacket was evil, pure fiddley frustration incarnate, held together with masking tape and hope.

And swearing.

Not sure how useful the swaring was, but there was a lot of it going on, so it merrits a mention.

But it held together just long enough for a few photos, so thats what mattered in the end.

hah, the guns still on my bedside table