Good on you, Anne! I'd love to see it, if you are so inclined.

Oh, I didn't mean it was a bad story, just that doing all that on your first fic is ... ambitious!

Don't worry, I didn't think that's what you meant! It's just that I was impressed by the quality for a first fic, and I think she didn't even register that a Big Bang is considered ambitious.

As soon as the post goes live, I'll link it up.

she didn't even register that a Big Bang is considered ambitious

It's right there in the name! Not small!

You know when you do something, and you like it and/or are proud of it, and it makes no ripples whatsoever, and there's other stuff you've done that had less invested, or was easier, or is just *less* to you, and it's epically frustrating, because you can't work out what the magic is between you and the audience that you missed here (or worse, you do know, but it's not something you can change--either because it's your limit, or because it's the fandom temperature, or whatever)?

Everybody has one (or a million) of those, right? I bring it up because I thought I drew a sexy ass the other day, and no one audibly cares for my ass. So you show me the thing you did that failed to resonate proportionately, and I'll show you my sexy ass.

Deal?

(If it's fic and not short, I'll read it this weekend, otherwise I want to grill you immediately about the nature of your relationship to it)

(It doesn't have to be Supernatural--I'm (lit/nat)tering in the thread just because the ass on my mind is SPNass--(pity me here and) SHOW US SOMETHING)

I worked on that ass! (non-explicit nudity, ergo NSFW)

I can't draw a straight line, but the back looks awesome. I always envisioned Sam's ass as perkier, but I think the picture is great.

That's some yummy musculature, ita !, and I like you captured the way things would shift with one leg set a little further back than the other.

In terms of work of mine that didn't resonate the way I had hoped, the John backstory I wrote two years back felt like that for a good long while. But, when I went to look at the feedback, it was more than respectable. I think it was because the time/effort/emotion that went into it wasn't greeted with immediate feedback that felt in any way proportional. That was a valuable lesson.

Anyhow, here are the links to the two BBs I did this year (I ended up picking up a story in the second round of claims - what was I thinking?):

Adam/Michael post-apocalyptic AU, with the AU being that Dean didn't make it to Stull in time for the showdown and Lucifer kicked Michael's ass.

Gen casefic set in early S8

I am SO jealous of people who can draw! Nice work, Anne!

That is such remarkable range, Anne, and I definitely envy your polish.

Okay, Anne, you're now my guru. (Crafty plan of mine, wasn't it???). You've got pencil work in the second link where you went dark with the paper--did you draw that on grey, or is that an artefact of scanning? I try and correct all my scans to white, but no matter how hard I bear down, or how soft the pencil, I have no contrast.

Basically on topic because no one gave a fuck, here's a picture I was pretty satisfied with of John holding a pregnant Mary (she's topless, hand across breasts): [link] I had to work so hard to get the contrast in that scan, and it involved a lot of post scan erasing of every time my pencil ever came near the paper.

is that just the game? I'm not finishing anything in pencil these days, and trying to work in ink from start to finish where I can to minimise post-scan work (the 30 day challenges were all pen), because I felt like I was a) fixing too much before scanning and b) fixing too much after scanning.

But you can sure bet I bore the fuck down on his hair to get it that dark, and as a result the contrast is imbalanced because I said "fuck it" to doing that anywhere else.

Is that just life?

I really should persuade my husband to do one of these contests...or whatever they're called. He's an artist as well as an IT guy. I'd love to see what he could do.

Linky?

They're not contests, but challenges, and they're in all flavours.

The last one I did was LetsDrawSPN where everyone did their interpretation of this [link] (mine was this [link] because that's how I ROLL). Currently they're doing "at the movies" and my normal style isn't well matched for movie posters, and I don't have the energy to do electronic art.

Team Free Will Fanart does challenges every few weeks. They just wrapped up a video game one with some badASSED submissions that meant nothing to me at all (where were the 8 bit submissions???). They seem to be doing movies as well right now.

Anne's stuff is fic-related, annual bangs that may be themed (maybe all of SPN, or just Dean/Castiel or Gabriel or Ruby-related) (and they all have different rules, schedules, and URLs, though I think there's an LJ community that tracks them...) where authors submit blind summaries for generally long fics and artists pick which sound good for them, and then they collaborate on illustrating. Everyone's a winner, except for the losers (I've had three or four great experiences and one where I didn't even bother reading the final version because she thought spelling Lisa wrong was kreatif). She got some of my (self-described) best digital art out of me too, the waste of neurons...