Artwork for super_disney!

[beelikej]

Funny thing: I accidently signed up for this challenge, before I figured out it was SPN-only and not actually my side of the Supernatural sandbox, which is RPF... But I could not resist the lure of The Nightmare Before Christmas as creative inspiration for some arts&crafts. After I discovered I would have to roleplay with Sam & Dean instead of J2, I immediately knew the scene I would put them in. In fact, I think it works even better than it would have with actors *grins* I hope you agree. May I present to you:



Title: The Shadow On The Moon
Challenge: super_disney
Disney Prompt: (Tim Burton's) The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pairing/Gen: Canon* Sam & Dean Winchester (as Jack Skellington & Sally)
Rating: PG for spookiness
Medium: Clay! (and a bit of painting and papercutting;)
Warnings: Graveyard, skulls, angsty scene, spoilers for S05Ep04 The End
Summary: Sam is not quite himself and Dean is upset. *Add subtext at your own risk.

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"Oh, hello Dean..."


"Whatever you do, you will always end up... here."


Close up of Lucifer!Sam


Close up of Emo!Dean

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Notes & References:
The title 'The Shadow On The Moon' is a line from the film's most famous song This is Halloween. Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king, is bored with organizing Halloween for the citizens of Halloween Town. When one day he discovers Christmas Town, he decides to kidnap Santa and have a go at that holiday for a change. Yet the concept of being merry is not quite clear to him. His friend Sally tries to warn him of possible disaster, but to no avail.





The doom and gloom setting of this film brought to mind the scene in Supernatural S05Ep04 The End and I could not help but see Lucifer!Sam as Jack and Sad!Dean as Sally. So I simply had to portray our Winchester boys like that. Lucifer refused to dress in black though, so he got to keep his white suit;)




As per usual, the Making of-section is huge. Feel free to skip:) [Go to credits]

Behind the scenes
Here's how the puppets were made... and how they broke arms and legs... and how I had to fix them again... and again... Despite those accidents, every time I asked myself the question 'Are you having fun', I would answer with a loud 'Hell, yeah'. :-) Enjoy the process in pictures!

This is the set up and sketch I handed in to the mods:


When I finally started with clay, I first worked on Sam and then build Dean. Each puppet took about 4 hours to build, I spent an additional hour or so in a second sesson for Sam. there was a week in between making Sam and Dean, but I'm putting their progress photos next to each other; Sam's on the left, Dean's on the right.












Broken arm for Sam... but that's nothing compared to what happened to Dean a week later; he is completely falling apart :(
If you can't handle any more drama and angst, you can skip to the end here: [Go to credits] :-p










End of first Sam session...


Start of second Sam session...


If only I had remembered from the start
that I had intended to bend Sam's arm;
that would have saved me this operation.




Newly bend arm on the left; a reminder of what it looked like before behind Dean on the right:)


Right after applying a layer for pants on Sam's right leg, the battery of my camera died... You can enjoy Dean's butt while I recharge :-p


Here you can see Sam's finished bell bottoms and the rose I made while I couldn't take any photos. A week after the clay-session I sanded all the figures, paying extra attention to smoothing Dean's behind *g*

Painting [Go to credits]
When it came to painting, I had intended to once again start with Sam, but when I discovered he had cracked his leg, I had to operate on him and let the new layer of clay dry first. So I started with Dean. I painted both of them -and the rose- in one day with another session for touch ups a week later.






Trying to find the right combination of Sad Dean and Sally's face.


The three layers of Dean...




Sideburns, baby. <3


Result after first painting day and on the right a close up after second session a week later;)


Finishing touch: Single Emo Tear of Manly Angst.

The Background [Go to credits]
I made a backdrop of the nightsky featuring Jack Skellington's head as the moon and cut some gravestones to create a spooky atmosphere fitting both the film and the Supernatural scene:)


Drew a pencil circle around the lid of a cooking pot and filled it in with white paint, then scratched the outline of Jack's face with a Q-tip...


... and smudged the eyes and edges with a tissue: voila! Drew rough gravestones shapes (based on graveyard from the film) with white eyeliner on black cardbord.


Cut them and painted them gray.


Smudged the paint a bit to make them look old. Had awesome skull lights for scenery but unfortunately they turned out too bright to photograph in the scene.


Building the set. The skull lights did offer a spooky light from below for the final shoot:)



The End. (See what I did there?;)

Credits
Shout out to sillie82 for knowing exactly what episode I was talking about. Thanks to Screencapped.NET for providing high res screen caps of that scene from Supernatural and The Focus Pull for better stills of the movie than I could capture of my DVD:) References of roses were found on Kortink.NL and Põltsamaa-Roosiaed.


Comments, questions and/or concrit, however short or detailed, are more than welcome:)

J.

My masterlist of artsy fiddling | Other clay artwork: Sam & Dean in: The Curse of Were-Rabbit

Comments

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

Very awesome. The clay figures came out well and that's a great choice of scenes. I love to see the step by step process photos. What a ton of work. I like the light from the skulls in the final set up even if you didn't get to put them on film.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are amazing!!!!!!!! I love the whole scenario!!! Your process is always fascinating, your persistence an attention to detail. Just fantastic, bb!!!!

[marciaelena.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is so awesome!

[jimbobjoe.livejournal.com]

These are amazing! I especially like Sam's extra-skinny legs.

WOOHOO, JACKPOT!!

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

You built a set. Oh, bb, YOU BUILT AN ENTIRE SET. You may have topped yourself this time, lady.

*bows down at your feet*

Bwahahaha, I guessed correctly on the clayworks, woo! Oh, bb, these are AMAZING! You've taken one of my favorite Burton flicks, my favorite TV show, one of my favorite episodes from said show, and combined them into a Grade-A MASTERPIECE.

Samifer!Skellington and Sally!Dean. The Skellington-moon. The gravestones. Dean's curvy buttocks. ♥ Even the font is correct! Love this SO very much!

Lucifer refused to dress in black though, so he got to keep his white suit;

BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Mess not with Lucifer. \o/

Man, I am literally bouncing with amazement and joy. All of your projects make me smile, but this one gives me shivers. ♥ Who's the most across-the-board-and-outside-the-box talented chick in this fandom? The mighty-mighty beelikej, that's who!

I. LOVE. THIS!! Brava, brava, brava, brava! ♥

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh, love seeing the final result! Their eyes are so Burtony!They came out really well and Lucifer!Sam is indeed very Tim Burton *grins*. Good choice on the white suit!!

(Also the setting for the photoshoot actually did bring me back to that scene in SPN and I haven't seen it in years, so well done!)

ALSO. SINGLE MANLY TEAR. *applauds you for being detailed*

[dugindeep.livejournal.com]

Absolutely amazing, of course, once again. BRAVO! :D

[casey28.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's totally amazing!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

Boy, do you put a lot of work into these, and it shows! Great interpretation!

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

This is so clever! I love the white suit - and Dean's emo face and the whole of the set you've built. Also the mix between SPN and the nightmare before christmas is spot on.

[meesasometimes.livejournal.com]

I do NOT even have words for you!!!!! SO VERY VERY VERY COOL!!!!!!!! love the clay, love the expressions you were able to capture, and the perfect mash up of SPN/Burton, genius!!! The whole shadow box set, I just admire your brain SO MUCH!!!!!

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

Oh wow!
I am way too tired to really look through all of this now - but THIS my friend, is amazing! Love it! Another layer of your awesomeness!

[herminekurotowa.livejournal.com]

Holy fudge, this is incredible. It needs capslock.

HOLY FUDGE, THIS IS INCREDIBLE. SO AMAZING!!! I THINK I'LL STARE A WHILE.

[ashtraythief.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are incredibly! I love how you managed to capture especially the expression on Jared's face! And you even gave Dean his wonderful round butt!

[sillie]

Oooh, I was right about the clay. :D That being said... this is so awesome! :D :D Love Sam's skinny legs and Dean's emo tear and curvy butt. :D :D :D

Also, thanks for the look at the process. That was a lot of work.

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

wow you have such skill (is jealous ) really love it

[hybridshade.livejournal.com]

So clever and amazing! Lovely work!

[tipsy-kitty.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful, you're so talented and I love seeing you try out new media!

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

Holy cow, this is ASTONISHINGLY COOL!!! I am honestly sitting here in complete awe of you and your vision and talent and all-around AMAZINGNESS. Incredible work! Such creative concept paired with such fantastic execution. YOU ARE A WONDER!!! *______*

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[thursdaysisters.livejournal.com]

Holy crap that is so cool, can we be friends and braid each other's hair and skip through the graveyard arm in arm?

[superdisney-mod.livejournal.com]

These are amazingly awesome and creative! It's always such a treat to see which medium you decide to use and then to see all the steps it took you to create it. ♥

Thank you so much for your great contribution to the challenge!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah brilliant!! Once again, I'm in awe of the effort as well as the end result! i love the whole idea, but especially that you have captured Samifer's smirk, and I love his rose. Plus Dean's sad yet Tim Burton-ish face with the stitches and the eyelashes!

[tmn1966.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh!!!!!!! I love The Nightmare Before Christmas and you did a fantastic job giving it a SPN twist.

Again, it's so cool to see the behind the scenes. All the thought and work you put into this just blows me away.

And I love your sense of humor with your 'The End' photo. LMAO

I would love to be a fly on the wall and watch you work all your magic, So fascinating!

&hearts♥

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I loved Jack's/Sam's extra long, thin legs. Nice job on those. The rose was also very intricate. Dean's face is marvelous to - as a combination of what makes him Dean and what you've brought in from Sally. I have to admit, I'm glad you kept Sam in his white suit - the scene is actually more chilling that way. In my opinion, at least.