Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

So, eh, hi? I didn't mean to stop posting in the middle of the Snowflake challenge, but I all of a sudden got the urge to do one of my home cleaning projects and it just felt so good to finally get my life back on track, that I didn't want to use going online as an excuse to fall back on procrastinating. I feel I'm getting a grip on things again and I will finish the rest of the challenge in my own time;)
In between sorting out my arts & crafts closet, I also worked on another Snowflake Day 4 artwish: I made a storybanner for elmyraemilie! I returned to one of my old fandoms that I never made art for: Harry Potter. I was working on my interpretation of Severus Snape on the day Alan Rickman died, it was nice to be able to do something to remember him.



Title: Into A Bar
Author: elmyraemilie@Dreamwidth
Characters: Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley
Summary: Sometimes, all you want is a cold beer and a quiet bartender.
Description: AU | 4380 words | G-rated

Artist: beelikej
Medium: Paper (black, white and peach coloured) + black marker
Font: Sunshine in my Soul (edited:)

It's a pretty cool story:) It was also fun to discover that elmyraemilie and I have more old fandoms in common:) Who knows what may inspire me next... I loved stepping out of my SPN comfort zone and arting with a different character. Here's how I made the banner:

( Making of paperSnape )

As usual all comments are appreciated!

J.

My Masterpost of artsy fiddling (Now with new 2016 artwork!)

When I looked out the window this morning, it was snowing! I thought we would just skip winter this season;) I started the day with my morning work out: fifteen minutes of easy exercises on the old people's channel *grins*. Then I did the first of the 30 day ABS challenges, that was... interesting. I didn't know sit ups actually involved sitting up! Couldn't do it without anchoring my feet, and then only barely managed 15 repeats, so we'll see what happens tomorrow... Good thing I have an LJ support group here:)

Unclogged the sink in my shower this morning \o/ Of course after that the little voice in my head convinced me I'd already achieved my chores-quotum for the day, allowing me to procrastinate for a large part of the day BUT I eventually managed to ignore that voice and did my full hour work out with Gilad, go me.
Heehee, my #climbit tweet about Jared being confused was retweeted and liked a LOT (over 200 times and counting!) I love fandom.
And on that note, it's time for:


First up an artset that was rather underrated in my opinion, or it just felt that way because my other two collaborations in that year's ReverseBang got a lot of attention in comparison;). Maybe my idea got lost in execution, but I had a lot of fun experimenting with melted crayons and adding digital effects to my marker portraits. I wanted the artwork to look like those old fashioned superhero comics with cheap/bad colouring. I was quite pleased with the result, but feel free to offer concrit, I love to hear what you think either way!
A Different Kind Of Superhero
J2 | PG13 (for bare chested Matt Cohen;) | Made for RB2013

Next a more recent piece that I love a lot, but perhaps not everybody noticed because it was posted outside of a community-challenge. The artwork is a handmade combination of cut out drawings and photos which I digitally turned into an animated banner. I made it for a marvelous story written by dugindeep, whose summary also describes the art: "As a law student, Jensen's used to long, sleepless nights. What he's not used to is all the headboard banging and cries for Big Daddy happening in the apartment next door that keep him up all night."
Dear Neighbours
J2D | R-rated (is that Jared's naked butt? Yes, yes it is) | Polyamory fic!

It's obvious from my artmasterlist who my favorite subject is, so my third rec is a totally self indulgent project that was totally an excuse to fantasize like woah while I was fiddling with his paper body:
Guardian Angel Jeff
JDM | G-rated (he's all dressed up for a chance *g*) | With links to an extensive making of process

Snowflake Challenge DAY 1 + DAY 2

I'd like to try being more active on LiveJournal* and bring some sort of regularity to my days, which I've been struggling with since becoming unemployed in September. So here's a daily blog challenge I'm participating in, which will give me something to post about for the first 15 days of the year:)




DAY 1 - In your own space, talk about why you are doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge?
Ha, already kind of answered that above. On top of giving me an incentive to post every day, I also thought it was a nice opportunity to get back on track with fandom, since I felt I've been keeping to myself a little too much in the past few months. (For understandable reasons, mind you;) *I'll also to jumpstart my Dreamwidth journal again with x-posting here.