Wallpaper | Confusion

[galathea]

Two years! That's how long it's been since I last opened Photoshop for anything more complex than an icon. It's not that I don't have ideas anymore, but when I started working more hours, I had to choose between keeping weekly reviews up and making art, and obviously the former won out. And the longer I stayed away from fanart, the more difficult it became to go back to it. So imagine my surprise when I was suddenly overcome with the urge to make art yesterday. I feel extremely rusty, so don't expect anything special; it's just a simple episodic piece for The Born-Again Identity



So, yesterday I was browsing and listening to a random music playlist on my computer - internally pondering whether I wanted to read a Big Bang story or start working on one of my missing S6 reviews - when Hendrix' All Along the Watchtower came on. Of course, I know the song in and out, but the second line of the lyrics suddenly struck me as a perfect summary for Sam's situation in The Born-Again Identity - and that motivated me to open PS. The end result you can see below. There is nothing deep or fancy here. In fact, I am glad I still know how to make a simple blend. *g* I think the composition is a bit odd, but I don't entirely hate it either, so I thought why not post it anyway.

This is the first time I downsized various wallpaper sizes from the orgininal 1680x1050 size. Thanks, uglybusiness for the pointers. I am not sure how the quality looks on the actual corresponding monitor resolutions, so if the downsized versions looks blurry or oversharpened to some of you, just let me know. :)


1680x1050 | 1440x900 | 1280x800 | 1024x640

So far I spent most of the hiatus relaxing, catching up on shows I had lost track of while they were airing and working my way through the SPN Big Bang 2012. However, I do plan on finally writing the three S6 reviews that are still missing from my review archive, and maybe finish the half-written S6 meta I have still lying around. And who knows! Maybe yesterday wasn't just a fluke and I get to dust off my PS skills and make some more art as well. But knowing my fickle muse, I wouldn't count on it.

Comments

[galathea-snb.livejournal.com]

But it surprises me you never found Lucifer funny, particularly in Repo Man when he is so ecstatic that Sam finally acknowledges him.
I was more annoyed with that moment, actually. Yeah, it is funny, but it is one of the handful of instances in the Lucifer storyline where the writers break perspective. That moment makes it look like Lucifer is actually an autonomous being, instead of an hallucination, and that undermines the consistency of Sam's storyline. Don't get me wrong, Repo Man is one of my favourite episodes of the last season, but that moment doesn't sit quite right with me from a narrative point of view. :)

Born Again Identity revealed the line between the vicious things a sibling will do and that of someone truly wanting to see you destroyed
Hm, for me that line was always there. The way Lucifer tried to drive Sam into suicide in Hello, Cruel World or the way he wanted to convince him that he never actually left the cage in Meet the New Boss - that's all about trying to destroy Sam, emotionally as well as physically. In Repo Man Lucifer seems less effective just because Sam has learned control at that point, but the moment he loses that control, Lucifer sets him aflame. So, Lucifer's destructive intentions have always been there for me. And I could never see allusions to rape and torture in the same context as the teasing between siblings. But well, ymmv, of course.