New arts-y things

[galathea]

I have two new arts, centered around Sam this time. After two seasons in which I had to remind myself constantly to not forget to art Sam from time to time, since I was so focused on Dean, this season gives me a lot of good arting ideas for his character! Enjoy! ♥



Temptation: This wallpaper is obviously about Ruby as a tempting Eve for Sam, trying to seduce him step by step over to the dark side, whispering lies to him (snake) and using Dean's deal as bait (the poisoned apple). I am immensely proud of the Ruby manip, 'cause it's one of the most complex ones I've ever tried! I wanted the contrast between her innocent appearance (the white dress, the light surrounding her) and the regalia of wickedness and evil (apple and snake). Sam looks skeptical but already finds himself caught in her world, without realising it. All in all this wallpaper came out a bit different than intended, but I think it worked out well.

Temptation

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The Memory Remains: I loved this scene in Bad Day At Black Rock where Sam finds out that John kept his old soccer trophy, despite the many fights they had over Sam's wish for normalcy. I wanted to show how their relationship was pretty much lithified, both of them unmoving in their position and with John withdrawn, unable to communicate with his son. The stonewall between them is separating and connecting them at the same time. I went for a very grungy look, since their relationship was rough and patchy, but finding that trophy is a bright reminder of John's love for Sam nonetheless. I am not all happy with this, but I worked too long on it to just dump it LOL.

The Memory Remains

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You all know the drill, no posting elsewhere and no pretending it's your own. Just for private desktop use! *g* Resources as usual over at Salt'n Burn!

Comments

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, you finished the Sam&trophy wall from Bad Day that you were talking about. Gorgeous. ♥

The Ruby manip is beautifully done. Well done, you!

Sam is definitely more interesting this season than he's ever been.

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thank you, hon! *hugs*

ROFL yeah at the moment I have more Sam ideas than Dean ones, but well, since the poor guy was neglected anyways, I am happy to art him for a while. :)

I am not all that happy about the Trophy wall, since I had to make it all so small, because the images didn't take gradients and stocks very well *sigh* but I had the perfect text, so I decided to keep it in the end LOL.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Roll on DVd caps, eh!

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

LOL well, DVD caps wouldn't have helped much in this case, since the scene was so frikkin dark I had to manip it anyway and no matter if it's DVD caps or not, to lighten them up so much that you actually see something will always pixelize the caps. *shrugs* Next show that I start obsessing over will be bright, colourful and only plays by day! *lol*

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah, you wish *G*

[impalalove]

OH. I love the whole Adam/Eve idea... ♥! ^^

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Kallie! I am quite happy with it as well! :)

[amantine-ari.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! I'm simply blown away by the 'Temptation' wallpaper! It's so full of meaning and really shows a bit(okay, a lot) of the whole Sam/Ruby dynamic from the show. Wonderful work, Chris! [hint]You really need to make a tutorial on how you made the piece.[/hint]

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Ari! ;) Glad you like it, took me quite a while to get it done. *g*

Heh, I get so many requests for tutorials lately. If you make a proper step by step tutorial with explanations, it just really takes a lot of time (especially for something like this, that took me roughly 10-12 hours to make) that I rather spend arting, plus I am not really good with them. It's not that I do something totally different from other artists. But well, one of these days I am trying to sit down and make tutorial for one of my more complex walls and put it on my website, to show how I work in general.

[amantine-ari.livejournal.com]

lol, and I thought I was the only one who took hours to make a wallpaper :) I'll be looking forward to that tutorial one of these days ;)

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

LOL, nah .. I know some people who are really fast with arting, I am not one of them *g*. A fast wallpaper takes me 4-6 hours, my average is 6-10, difficult ones 10-12. My record is 15-16 hours for one wallpaper. :D

[amantine-ari.livejournal.com]

Wow... That is a lot. I usually take 2-3 hours for an easy wallpaper, 4-6 for a medium one, but the record was(and please don't laugh) 2 days... That's the amount of time I spent experimenting with the lasso tool for shreds until I finally got it right:D I swear I had square eyes after that.. lol. Though I know someone who spends 30 mins tops on a wallpaper.

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

LOL I bet .. I still have no idea how you did that. :)

30 mins?! I need at least two times that amount to alone pick my images LOL. I spent one day alone to find a manipulation base for 'Temptation' for example. I don't think I could even manage a simple blend with texture and gradients in 30 mins, even if I already had the images ready. *lol* I am just slow. *shrugs*

The more time extensive walls I don't make in one day either. On 'Temptation' I worked nearly 4 days, if I count in the time to find all the images I needed.

[amantine-ari.livejournal.com]

lol... Seems like we're alike at least from that POV. And I'll try writing a tutorial on that shreds stuff for you over the weekend... I've got time to remember the steps by then and I can get done with school and tutoring so yeah... Sometime on Saturday or Sunday :)

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Ah, no pressure! *lol* I won't need a step by step tut, just curious how you did it, a couple of sentences are enough really. ;)

[emgrace4.livejournal.com]

These are great! The Ruby manip turned out beautiful. I'm not going to use these, since I'm a little attached to my current pic, but I wanted to let you know that you did awesome work!

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thank you for stopping by and commenting! I am glad you enjoyed the walls. Heh, I don't change my desktop often either. :D

[coell.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are really well thought-out.

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thanks, glad you liked them! :)

[powersgirl.livejournal.com]

The Sam/Ruby manip is 5 kinds of awesome. That is some gorgeous work you've done. I'm jealous. Great job!

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am quite proud of it myself. *g* Happy you like it! :)

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

That Ruby manip is stunning - gorgeous work - I love it!

I shall be reccing it over on spnroundtable.

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for recommending my art! I am happy you like it! :)

[ejayye.livejournal.com]

Temptation, in particular, is incredible.

Very, very well done \o/

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's always uplifting to hear that kind of praise on something that you spent so much time and effort on! ;)

[silverkit.livejournal.com]

Hi! You make some beautiful and rich wall papers. I just found your site and I'm looking through all of them now. I grabbed both of these and I can't get enough of the "Temptation."

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope you have some fun at my website. I invest a lot of time in thoughtful art about SN and I am glad if people find something that interests them. ;)