2015: my fanart

[beelikej]

Happy New Year Y'all! My best wishes for 2016, may it be a better year than the last one:)

I ran out of time and space yesterday to add to my end of year post, so below there's a list of all the fanart I made in 2015. If you've missed any of this, I'd love for you to come over and check it out; comments are always welcome (even if you want to point and laugh) *grins*

In 2015 I made more fanart than ever before! Strangely enough there were less collaborations, but I joined two new challenges and tried new materials and techniques on top of returning to my old love clay and my continued experiments with papercutting. It's been fun:)

An overview of 2015

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Challenge: Personal Project - January 2015 Title: Xmas Cards Medium: Papercutting Description: Making of New Years cards with Jensen/Jared silhouettes Notes: Apparently not everyone discovered the faces hidden in the piles of snow. Heehee! Pairing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki or Sam/Dean Winchester if you prefer

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Challenge: Personal project - January 2015 Title: Guardian Angel Jeff Medium: Papercutting, Colouring with melted crayons Description: Jeffrey Dean Morgan with wings. Includes flying video and links to WIP process. Notes: Pure self indulgence. Art is G-rated.

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Challenge: smpc - January 2015 Title: Wet wet wet Medium: Marker on paper. Animation (ImageReady. Description: Jared likes to watch Jensen pee. Notes: Inspired by story (request-fill) at SPN-kink meme. Art is R-rated. Pairing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki ~ Introduction to watersportskink

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Challenge: super_disney - February 2015 Title: The Shadow On The Moon Medium: Clay! (and a bit of painting and papercutting) Description: Puppetscene, teaserbanner, extensive making of. Notes: Inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas + Supernatural S05Ep04 The End. Pairing: Gen/Canon Sam & Dean Winchester ~ slightly spooky (PG;)

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Challenge: Art for story by dugindeep - March 2015 Title: Dear Neighbors... Medium: Paper, marker, coloured pencil, animation (ImageReady) Description: Story banner, dividers and making of Notes: My first collaboration of 2015! Pairing: Jared/Danneel/Jensen

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Challenge: spnspringfling - March/April 2015 Title: A Close Shave Medium: Pencil, Paint, Photoshop Description: Butt-naked Jensen is giving Jeff a shave Notes: Made for anon prompt "Staring down the barrel of your gun, I still want to fuck you"... R-rated. Pairing: Jeff/Jensen

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Challenge: smpc Pornpile May 2015 Title: The Joy of Full Surrender Medium: Paper, animation (ImageReady) Description: Three men, one bed, foreplay Notes: One paperpeen visible, so R-rated Pairing: Jensen/Jared/JDM

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Challenge: spn_j2_bigbang - July 2015 Title: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Medium: Coloured paper, black marker Description: Storybanners, chapterheaders, dividers, scenes and Making of Notes: Inspired by NC-17 story. Art is PG-rated. Pairing: Jensen/Jared, sidepairings Jared/Jason Momoa, Jensen/Danneel

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Challenge: Art for story by ashtraythief - September 2015 Title: It's A Start Medium: Stained glass paint, papercutting Description: Scene and Making of Notes: Inspired by NC-17 story. Art is R-rated. Pairing: Jensen/JDM

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Challenge: spn_cinema - September 2015 Title: You're The One That I Want Medium: Photoshop, marker and papercuttings Description: Combination of manips and papercut designs to create collage and scenes Notes: Inspired by 1978 film Grease. Art is G-rated. Pairing: Jensen/JDM

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Challenge: Offer for Charity Auction - December 2015 Title: Young Sam Winchester Medium: 3D Papercutting + paint Description: Paper cut out portrait of Sam Winchester in S02Ep17 Heart. Includes Making Of. Notes: Prompted commission. Art is G-rated. Character: Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki)

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As promised, here are my personal answers to the fandom-questions I asked:
What social media did you start or stop using in 2015?
Since I got my mobile/smart phone in March, I've been spending even more time online. I find the LiveJournal app frustrating to comment with, so I really need to remind myself to revisit posts when I get to my computer. I may not always succeed, but I still do try to comment on every piece of art on my flist and all the stories I read, no matter how old they are.
I definitely spent more time on Twitter, because that platform is really made for a phone. Although now that they've been messing with the visibility of photos again, I often find myself wishing I could quit, but I just love rolling around in fandom there.
Tumblr is my most passive experience; I do not follow a lot of fandom related people there and never interact beyond putting pretty on my like-list.
(If you're looking for me: I have the same name on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, AO3, Dreamwidth, YouTube and possibly other places I don't remember right now. I'm not on Facebook)

Were you more or less involved with fandom this year as a result of that?
I started following more fanpeople on Twitter, it's been fun reaching out:) On LJ I feel I lost touch a little, but that's probably because the J2_SPN_BigBang was the only collaboration challenge I participated in this year, so I mostly fiddled with the boys by myself. I'd love to do more story-based art, but my current JDM obsession makes me very picky :-p

Do you prefer to comment or rather leave kudos or hearts or likes?
I still prefer to give comments as I LOVE to receive those myself, even if it's just "I love this"; it's so nice to get a personal response. I do sometimes only leave a kudo on AO3 stories and I totally get that it's sometimes hard to find the words or even the time to leave a (thought out) comment, but despite the decline in reactions to artposts, I'm glad LiveJournal still lacks a like-button. It's the interaction that I still love on this platform. *clings*
I also hate that Twitter turned it's "star" into a "heart", because I feel it changed the function of marking tweets. Before I felt people would star a tweeted link to an artpost to remind themselves to check out the tweetlink later, now it appears to be that "hearting" actually means: "Yeah, I saw that and loved it, mkay bye". At least that's what I think after receiving lots of hearts on my artpostlink last week from people I don't know... Or maybe I'm just too impatient and there will be rush on my LJ in a few days ;-)

Any input is appreciated! I for one am -once again- determined to be more active on LiveJournal. If I missed anything and you want me to take a look at personal posts, artwork or fic, let me know!

Last but not least: I made a new sticky post that is also my readinglist for 2016:)

J.

Comments

[ashtraythief.livejournal.com]

You, my dear, had a very nice productive year :) I have to say, I am still most in awe with your papercuttings. The seeming simplicity is just great and I love your cutting style.

I hope 2016 will be an awesome year for you, very productive fandom related *wink, maybe there's another Jeff collab in the stars for us? wink* and I hope everything works out job-wise!

<3

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you, I did more than I thought I did *grins*

Same to you! Hey, whenever you want to play with Jeff I'm IN!!

<3<3

[ashtraythief.livejournal.com]

Next time I write Jeff, I'm so gonna hit you up on that offer ;)

[sillie]

Oooh, look at that list! So productive, and it's all awesome too. :D :D

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

:) I'm surprised by how many fanthings I actually did; I was sure it was less than previous years, but it wasn't!