Blood will Flow

I was chatting about spn_cinema with the lovely madebyme_x some months ago, and we thought a collaboration might be fun. She suggested this film that I've never seen but sounded full of potential.
It was!
Click on the banner to go read the story - you won't regret it! (Link here too)

The gif-maker I used resized the image which means the text is a bit small - apologies to people who need reading glasses (like me!).

This was a case where having more time meant I ended up doing less because posting felt like ages away until it wasn't.
There was more watercolour experimenting too...
Here's the banner picture minus animation and larger.

I also did another watercolour (with ink lines) to illustrate the scene when Jensen and Jared first meet.

This one didn't come out as I'd hoped, dammit but of course there was no time left to start over.
Close ups of their faces weren't too bad though - so here they are.



In progress stuff
I drew the figures in pencil then used masking fluid to keep the shapes clear while washing in the background. Then I had to redraw them because rubbing the masking fluid off also rubbed out the pencil! LOL

Of course by then I was in a rush (this was yesterday), so this was where I finished up on paper.

Then I scanned it and in PS I duplicated the layer and multiplied it as the scanning always washes out the colours. The doubling up gets it back closer to how it actually looks on paper.
The tree in the background was a screen cap I'd done from (I think) a music video a while ago, because I liked the colours. I added a couple of PS artistic filters to it to blur the edges etc.

This is the scanned watercolour for the waterfall, again without colour enhancing, borders etc.


I animated the water using an iPad app called Pixaloop. It's really fun to play with! Thanks to quickreaver (and others?) for mentioning it.