Dare to be different and learn to be lonely

I was going through my blog and journals (as you do this time of year;-), and I noticed I completely forgot to share the stuff I made for Land of Art in 2024. My year was mostly filled with work and travel (which was also mostly for work) but I did manage to squeeze in some creative times. So I figured for my end of year post, I'll just picspam y'all with my graphic designs.

But first, to round up this year properly, here's what I did since the previous journal post in October, with links to my photos on Instagram:

I had a quick weekend in London for a play that was cancelled last minute (but I found another one to at least make the most of my weekend in November)

I built a cabinet for my renovated shower

I went on another businesstrip to England as well, where I didn't really go sightseeing, but did discover a lovely outdoors pool that was decorated for Christmas in December

I celebrated Sinterklaas with my family

Now, without further ado: all the fanart graphics I made this year!

Land of Art Phase 22 - Summer 2024
I handed in Golden Tickets for Challenge 1, 9 and 11. I missed Challenge 3 and Challenge 14 was a puzzle challenge, so no artwork for all of these.

( Challenge 2 - Stop & Stare )

( Challenge 4 - Technique )

( Challenge 5 - Hide & Seek )

( Challenge 6 - If You Believe )

( Challenge 7 - That's New to Me )

( Challenge 8 - Mother's Day )

( Challenge 10 - The Scenic Route )

( Challenge 12 - Call Me Daddy )

( Challenge 13 - All About That Base )

( Challenge 15 - Show Me the Pain )

Land of Art Phase 23 - Autumn 2024
This phase was supposed to last through December and into 2025, but was cut short because everyone is too busy with work. Team challenge 3 is moved to the next phase, challenge 7&8 were not posted.

( PH23CH01 - Follow the Leader )

( PH23CH02 - Mini Bang )

( PH23CH04 - You were the First )

( PH23CH05 - What if I'm the Bad Guy )

( PH23CH06 - The Saddest Goodb )

( PH23CH09 - On The Side )

That's all! Wishing everyone all the best for the holidays :-)

J.


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Pff, those were some worlwind weeks since my previous post. In between work being crazy busy (as usual;) I had a long weekend off for a theatre trip to London, including a night at the Leicester Square Theatre for Richard Herring's podcast; he interviewed Tim Key, who presented his book of poems, and Davina McCall, a hero of mine ever since her MTV days, she was so cool and gorgeous. I also met up with an international workfriend:) I shared a bunch of photos at my Instagram:
Part 1: Night Ferry / Breakfast / Undergrond / Rain / Black Friars Bridge / Exploring Bankside (Artsy:) / Shakespeare's Globe! | Part 2: More exploring Bankside (Winchester Palace / As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe! / Golden Hind galleon) / King's Cross Hotel / IFO (rainbow swing) by IFO Jacques Rival. | Part 3: Saint Chad! (for the SPN RPF fangirls;) / King's Cross / British Library / Detail of St. Pancras railway sculpture frieze (The Meeting Place by Paul Day) / Skeleton at Liberty / Lunch at Mother Mash with G.

I received some great fandom news: after a process of over two (2!) years, the import of the Nick&Greg fic archive WMTDB is finally complete and the collection of over 2000 stories is now safely stored in our own collection at AO3!

I continued to play in Land of Art Phase 21: Challenge 10 was a Halloween/Autumn Edition Scavenger Hunt where we had to find specific images and create a whole bunch of spooky or autumny graphic designs. I dove into all sorts of monster and witches films and also rediscovered the Buffy and Angel fandom:-)
I managed to find all the required images/screenshots and below I'm sharing all the stuff I created; a mood theme, icons, sigtags, picspams, bookmarks, colorbars, headers, panoramas, posters, tumblr graphics and wallpapers!

( ALL THE THINGS! )



( MORE THINGS! )

With another businesstrip ahead of me, I may have to hand in some Golden Tickets for a few coming challenges to have enough time to do the ones I really want to do. Today I'm working on colouring pages, it's so relaxing getting out the pencils:-)

J.

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This is the second half of my Land of Art Graphics for Phase 20. In case you missed here are links to Part 1, Challenges 1-9: on Dreamwidth and on Livejournal.

There will be a new Land of Art Phase starting next week, let me know if you are interested in joining in and I'll introduce you to our creative community:) It's a great low pressure challenge over several weeks with inspirational suggestions to make digital artworks, for which you can use stock or fandom images. Below you'll find my creations, featuring Orphan Black, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, and more:) I'm on Team SteamPunk, we won Phase 20, yay!

( Challenge 10 - Hide & Seek: Types of Weapons )

No Graphics:
- Handed in Golden Tickets for Challenge 11 - Competition: Superheroes Vs. Anti-Heroes Vs. Anti-Villains Vs. Villains
- Challenge 12 - Puzzle Maker was a digital puzzle challenge for speed
(I created my own puzzle as well, 70 pieces featuring CSI Nick Stokes, go check it out:)
- for Challenge 13 - May the 4th Be With You (Stormtrooper Edition) you had to pick your favorite stormtroopers for a lottery.

( Challenge 14 - Hide & Seek: Accessories )


+ 2 No Face Sigtags on Glasses


( Challenge 15 - Hide & Seek: Love )

( Community Banners: Love & Film Backgrounds )

( Challenge 16 - Competition: Animation Vs. Anime Vs. Live Action )

( Challenge 17 - Colored Graphics )
A great final challenge:)

J.

You can check the Land of Art tag for my graphics from all previous phases:)

If you're interested in my digital and papercut fan-art, you can scroll through my Artmasterlists:
Artmasterlist 2010-2018 | Artmasterlist 2019 and beyond

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For my first spn_reversebang of 2022, I submitted my papercut puppetmaster artwork in the Either category, which means the author had the choice to either play in the SPN or the RPF corner. I had deliberately kept the facial features of my papercut art neutral, so the author could also pick the roles for the characters. I was thrilled the story ended up being a Supernatural AU, with the artwork turned into a more metaphorical puppetmaster. Go read the fic to find out who's pulling the strings...



Prompt Number: E3003
Art title: If They Knew How Misery Loved Me
Artist: beelikej

Fic title: These Are the Lives You’d Love to Lead
Author: samisadeangirl [genevra1676 on AO3]
Pairing: Sam/Dean | Fandom/Genre: SPN, Stanford era AU
Rating: G (art) & NC-17 (fic) | Word Count: 11045 | Warnings: Mind Control
Summary: Sam gets a call at Stanford from his estranged father that Dean's been hurt on their latest hunt, and John needs his help to find a cure before it's too late. What Sam finds when he rushes to his brother's aid however, isn't what he expected, and the lies and manipulations that follow leave one wondering who is the puppet master making these puppets dance to their tune...

( Original Artprompt )

( Additional Artwork )

( The Making Of )

Sources:
Title font: All Over Again by Hanoded
Names font: Rabiohead by Pizzadude
References for knife and clothes of Sam, Dean and John: Supernatural Season 1 :-)
Lyrics in Art & Story & Chapter titles: Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy.

Thank you samisadeangirl for coming up with such a cool premise for my puppetmaster and for your excellent idea of the extra scene; I had a lot of fun playing with these guys:)

J.

For more paperart, check out the papercuttingart TAG and for all my previous artworks, you can scroll through my Artmasterlists:
Artmasterlist 2010-2018 | Artmasterlist 2019 and beyond

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There were many different short fics on offer in this round of the quicky_bang. For my second claim I chose a story with a whole bunch of intriguing tropes; it has timetravel, young Dean & older Sam plus Mpreg! Anyone of those may not be everyone's cup of tea, but as an artist I love to explore all sorts of visuals and I really wanted to put Dean in that big old leather jacket again;)

This was not my first try at imagining Mpreg, but I had not tried to capture it digitally before, and it took me a while to figure out. The result is an endbanner that's behind the cut, together with animated Making Ofs of the storybanner. If you want to see full size versions of either one of the banners, simply click on the images. I hereby present:



Title: Across Time We Come Together
Author: backrose_17 (Blackrose_17 on AO3)
Artwork by: beelikej
Medium: Photoshop
Characters: Sam/Dean Winchester
Art Rating: PG13 | Fic Rating: R | Word count: 1167
Enticements/Warnings: Mpreg, Time Travel
Summary: From two different times, a broken Dean and Sam are brought together to find comfort in one another and to ensure that the Winchester bloodline continues on.

( Animated Making Ofs )

References & Sources
Sam & Dean: Screenshots from SPN S01Ep02 - Wendigo & S15Ep20 - Carry On.
Images: Belly from 24baby.nl & DNA from BillionPhotos.com
FX: torn paper brushes by Tricorn Design & scratchie by Eggler
FONTS: Jacinto Sans by TracerTong Fontworks. (Title) & Alyssum Blossom Sans by Bombastype. (Names)

Thank you, backrose_17 (aka Blackrose_17 on AO3) for submitting your fic and giving me free rein to play with it:)

J.

Want to see my other mpreg artwork? It's a papercut Jensen with Matt!
Check out my first Quicky for 2021, which was also a papercut illustration, featuring Jared and Dragon!Jensen:)

Many more artworks as well digital as arts&crafts can be found in my ArtMasterlists: 2010-2018 & 2019 and beyond

As votes for Challenge 09 are still being counted, I still can't show the Halloween icons I made for that yet. But I don't want to wait any longer with sharing my latest creations for landofart. Today I will play the final round of Hide & Seek, and do some other challenges for this week. In between I will be thinking about poems and surprise presents for my family's Sinterklaas celebrations next weekend. It's a busy week for arts & crafts here:) So without any further ado, here's what I made for Challenge 13: Mirror Mirror on the Wall.

The assignment: You will be creating mirror art using one character, or person to represent your idea of 'who is the fairest of them all?' - There was a mirror template provided, but I went looking for alternative images of mirrors and I found the most amazing glass and porselain creations. Enjoy!


Alona Tal <3

( More mirrors! )

In case you missed it: earlier this week I posted my second SPN_ReverseBang collaboration: Mischief Candy, a J3 artprompt that resulted in a sweet collab with one of my favorite authors, so it's a big WIP post with fic on top:)

Tomorrow I will reveal my first RB collab, which will be art only (for now)...

Somewhat related, I was wondering about all the platforms that are currently used for fandom, as responses on my traditional LiveJournal artposts are only trickling in this year. Especially Twitter seems to be a popular place to not only promote fanworks but even publish them, which is weird to me, since Tweets are not easily archived to permanently share your works. I also don't quite understand how the 'likes' there are supposed to be interpreted when I tweet a link to my artpost on LJ. Do people mean to say "thanks for the link, I like it, may check it out later" or "checked out the link, looks great, kudos to you" or WHAT? There's a lot more response there than on LJ, but it's most unsatisfying to not know the extend of those likes.
I get that times are moving fast and that people sometimes find it hard to express their thoughts about art, so I doubly appreciate everyone taking the time to leave a comment <3<3

J.

(A remix by Marius KC based on original Sammy!video by Sarah K:)

Two small wallpapers made for landofart (Click for full size 800x600)
This was a challenge that was open to your own interpretation of abstract. For the second design my aim was to go back to basic shapes, as I have been trying to do with my papercutting. In fact, I did turn it into a paperpiece later. Do you recognize the scene? I plan to experiment more with these geometrical shapes in the future:)


Abstract Waves


Abstract Winchesters

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( Sources & Fonts )

J.

While I'm in the last stages of my second BigBang artwork, I'm trying to get a little better organized in my arts & crafts space and this also includes my digital archive. I noticed I hadn't shared some of my landofart creations before, so this is a catch up post! It's quite a random selection of banners, icons and covers. At the end I'm adding a Tutorial that's illustrative of my usual way of brightening colours to improve images:)

( Artwork! )

( How I Brighten Up Images )

( A list of previously posted artwork )

Currently I'm coloring for Challenge 16, there's a sneakpeek in my Instagram;)

That's it! Comments are welcome, as are questions:)

J.

WoOt, wo0t! Had a long weekend and when I got to work this morning a parcel had arrived with THREE NEW BOOKS \o/ I updated my readinglist:)

I've been disappointed to find out the spn_cinema challenge will be postponed until the autumn. Not the first time one of my favorite events changes plans and I'm very bad at accepting change. Plus I was READY; had a film and medium picked out and everything. First thought was to stop joining challenges alltogether, but maybe I should take this opportunity to sing up for spnspringfling? I don't know... making something anonymously (in both directions) is just so nervewracking, but I do like working on my own and I love the short turnaround.
I still have until Friday to consider, right? I'm still a little too sad to care. Opinions are appreciated.

So, about that long weekend! I had a sillie82 from Friday until Sunday. There was lots of CSI (3 golden oldies and 13 episodes of Season 15 with a final that has a major impact on our OTP) and a film (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, which S. hadn't seen, so I picked it knowing she's a fan of Chris Evans *grins*) plus of course Supernatural (an episode from S1 with John for meeeeee and five episodes of Season 10, oh wow).
Before we sat down to watch all this on the big screen up in my attic I took S. along on an official touristy city walk through my town. Want to walk with us? We only did half the tour, which already took us four hours, because we are slow thorough.
Of course I made a lot of photos, here's a selection of 24 with minimum text (hahahahaha).

( We start behind that bookstore-in-a-church I told you about last time... )
If you want the full history walk and talk, you are welcome to come over;)

J.