Artwork for It's A Start [Jeff/Jensen, NC17]

[beelikej]

For several reasons I put myself on an artstop until September. This means I am still in the preparation stages of my entry for the spn_cinema, so that won't be up until later this month. That's also because I wanted to give priority to this already belated birthday present for ashtraythief who surprised me last week with a glorious timestamp for our 2013 RB collab. I created a scene based on a throw-away line in the story, so no spoilers;) The artset begins with a making of before the final reveal.

Titel: It's A Start
Author: ashtraythief
Artist: beelikej
Rating: NC-17 (story & art:)
Words: 5,700
Summary: Jeff is just looking for a one night stand. Instead, he finds Jensen.
Notes: A prequel for our 2013 spn_reversebang collaboration Hungry. This is the beginning of Jeff’s and Jensen’s relationship, so no prior knowledge required.

Medium: It's mostly papercutting art, but I also experimented with an old set of stained-glass paint I found in the back of my arts & crafts closet. I promise the result is a little neater than the text below. :-p





Pencil set up and cutting in layers: white paper on top, black underneath


So I ended up with a black and a white paper stencil:)


Next I played with colours, this is a marker experiment on a transparent sheet


Then I tried different coloured paper as backgrounds; (The painted purple was an earlier experiment with salt;).


I used the stencil as a frame to transfer the puzzle pieces. I glued them to the background before carefully removing the stencil.


The first finished version!


The white outline stencil ended up on structured paper that I'd painted blue; I like the shadows on the image without flash (left)


For the black paper stencil I tried different coloured paper backgrounds


Then decided on using all the colours:)


Shot without a flash to include the shadows of the black layer.


Last but not least, I went back to some old arts & crafts materials: stained glass paint... Applied on a transparent sheet on top of the sketch.


Wet paint slowly turnes into a shiny, glassy layer; the image on the right is three hours later, drying time is officially 24 hours.


The final version with the black outline paper on top
(I did say it was only a little neater, right?;)

Credit: for the base of the design I used an image I found in a clickbait top 12 thingy The Best Sex Position For Your Star Sign, I saved it in my reference-collection: Gemini-Lapdance I was unable to find out who originally made it, I edited it to fit Jeff/Jensen;)

Comments of all kind are welcome! Go read the story!

J.

P.S. I know I had announced on Twitter to post this yesterday, but the neighbour's visit lasted longer than expected when he turned out to have enough stamina to watch ALL my roadtrip-photos, brave man. *grins* I will continue my travel picspam this weekend. Be prepared!

Comments

[jimbobjoe.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just yummy! *shivers*

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Yay, I made you shiver *grins*

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Not just paper-cut porn, but stained-glass and paper-cut porn. Niiiiiice!! (Have you hung it in the window yet?) ;)

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

As if I didn't shock my neighbours enough with that J3-photoshoot in front of the guestroomwindow :-p

[sillie]

This is so great. Love that you did different versions, and they all look awesome. Thanks for the look into your process, I always love seeing that. <3

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

It was fun to play with the cut out;) That salty purple was the sheet I'd been looking for to show you how I failed. I'm gonna try all the things you showed me in the project after spn_cinema;)

[emmatheslayer.livejournal.com]

awesome work

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Thank you <3

[ashtraythief.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, these are so awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you. this is such a wonderful present! I love the position and the different colorings you did, the one with the glass color is really really cool. My favorite is probably the black on blue, but I love that you experimented with all the different colors and what it does to the scene.

Beautiful, as always!

<3<3<3

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

You're welcome:) After reading your awesome timestamp I had this image of Jensen riding Jeff on the couch in my head and then I reread it and noticed that hadn't even been a full scene, heehee. I suspect I got the visual from their first meet up (...he sits back on his haunches and pulls Jensen into his lap...) and then mixed that with the Fridaynight pizza snuggles;) You just created such a great new timeline that I filled in the blanks with extended porn in between Jeff getting more determined and Jensen shying away. THIS UNIVERSE IS SO REAL TO ME.

Here's a big version of the black on blue. (Click for full size) <3

[ashtraythief.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome thank you. And well, at some point they totally did it reverse riding style on the couch. I mean, I'm pretty sure they tries out most positions. And Jensen does yoga. So you know :D

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

*drools* Very hot portrait of the two of them having some sexy times. Loved the arch of Jensen's back and the placement of Jeff's hand. Delicious all the way around.

As always, it was amazing to see the process, and I'm impressed at the number of different combinations you tried. There wasn't a single one I didn't like.

If I may ask, what do you do with all the art once you've finished it and shared it with us?

I wish it wasn't getting so late here, I'd love to keep going through some of these.

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

*shoves droolbucket in your direction*

\o/ Yay for liking all of them, I had such fun playing with the different colours:)

It depends on why I made the artwork; whether is was my own idea or made to go with a story or on request.
The art featuring Jeff is framed and hangs on the wall in my guestroom, along with fanart from other artists. A couple of pieces stand on a shelf (like the cards or clay puppets).
A few designs only last as a photo and are saved in pieces in a box. I don't throw anything out!
The latest portrait, of young Sam, was send to the person who commissioned it, just like the portrait I did of Bucky Barnes/The Wintersoldier. I mostly prefer to keep it myself though;)

Once again, thank you so much for checking out my artwork, I had a blast reading your comments. Feel free to come back anytime;)