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zubeneschamali) wrote2016-02-08 09:49 am
zubeneschamali) wrote2016-02-08 09:49 am
ART: Here Be Dragons (1/1, SPN Gen)
Here it is...my first ever art! I entered ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_reversebang this year as an artist because a) I knew I'd be too busy to write for it this year, and b) I had an idea for a piece of art for the first time ever, and c) my newly-gained experience with quilting from the Row by Row challenge made me think I could come up with my own landscape. It sort of went as planned!
Some time ago, I was driving down the highway towards a pretty massive thunderstorm. The road ahead looked scary, but behind me in the rearview mirror, the sky was blue and sunny. I suddenly had the idea of the reverse: what if the road ahead looked clear, but there was something very threatening in the rearview mirror. Like...a dragon? And then I came across the green "scale" fabric in my stash and knew I had to do it.
Having gained experience through quilting by fusing this past year, I decided to sketch out a design in fabric. It ended up having a pretty primitive aesthetic, and the dragon still kinda looks like a chicken, but I'm really happy with the landscape on the horizon and the fire being breathed. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dugindeep for encouraging me to do this, and big thanks to dephigravity for being my beta. It's so much better thanks to his suggestions.
And I also want to thankjennytork for picking my art and for writing a fantastic story! You should definitely go read it: it's in an existing 'verse, but you can figure out what's going on pretty quickly, and I love most of all that she put dragons IN SPACE. Which is like, the best combination ever. And I love the ending.
Close-ups of the art are below, including the banner. The whole piece is about a foot square.
spn_reversebang this year as an artist because a) I knew I'd be too busy to write for it this year, and b) I had an idea for a piece of art for the first time ever, and c) my newly-gained experience with quilting from the Row by Row challenge made me think I could come up with my own landscape. It sort of went as planned!
Some time ago, I was driving down the highway towards a pretty massive thunderstorm. The road ahead looked scary, but behind me in the rearview mirror, the sky was blue and sunny. I suddenly had the idea of the reverse: what if the road ahead looked clear, but there was something very threatening in the rearview mirror. Like...a dragon? And then I came across the green "scale" fabric in my stash and knew I had to do it.
Having gained experience through quilting by fusing this past year, I decided to sketch out a design in fabric. It ended up having a pretty primitive aesthetic, and the dragon still kinda looks like a chicken, but I'm really happy with the landscape on the horizon and the fire being breathed. Thanks to
dugindeep for encouraging me to do this, and big thanks to dephigravity for being my beta. It's so much better thanks to his suggestions.And I also want to thank
jennytork for picking my art and for writing a fantastic story! You should definitely go read it: it's in an existing 'verse, but you can figure out what's going on pretty quickly, and I love most of all that she put dragons IN SPACE. Which is like, the best combination ever. And I love the ending.Close-ups of the art are below, including the banner. The whole piece is about a foot square.
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That fabric does indeed look like a dragon's skin, what a great find and inspiration:) The idea of the danger being behind you is very well visualized, I like that extra bit of wing in the side mirror.
I love this design a LOT with the black static frame of the car's interior and all the dynamicly printed fabrics creating a horizon outside; the winding road is such a good detail! The windscreenwipers and steeringwheel are great finishing touches!
The firebreathing dragon/chicken is fierce! (It's totally a dragon, bb, I'm just going along with your own observation :-p I think it's because the spikes are all on top of its head instead of on the back of his neck; it doesn't matter, it's still pretty damn cool;)
Oh, how I love it when people experiment with hands on arts & crafts. <3
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I'm so very impressed with your quilting, and how you've managed to paint a scene and a story in fabric - the flames of the fire, the landscape ahead, the scaled material of the dragon, the exterior and interior of the car - spectacular, and with so much detail!!!
Thank you so much sharing; what a joy this is, and well done too for stepping into the art world of fandom :)
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Late comment is lateI still love everything about this! What a lovely, unique, and creative way to create art for this challenge! This must have taken you forever, but the love you put into shines through brilliantly!
Fantastic job!
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