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...

FUCK. I love finding a hi res stash of episode stills [link] but I hate ripping and configuring it. I was gonna copy them manually, but that was when I thought they just had one episode (120 hi-res stills, but containing dupes). And then I gotta file them by content, upload, and tag.

Can this be medicated away?

Trefoil:

If you were going to pick *one* episode to screencap, which would it be? With the most amount of good looks, pathos, and badassery from the cast members you prefer?

Which episode was in the stills above?

If I had to screencap an episode? Wow. That's hard. My first instinct is to say Monster Movie because I love them in black and white, but I'd really have to think about it.

The entire series, apparently. But the volume gets much less as time passes.

I'll probably grab most of those pics, since I can do it automagically, but I won't file them all. I'm at a loss as to what to prioritise, though. I only got as far as AAH, Pilot, and Wendigo.

Thank you all very much! I've had a blast getting back into my artwork after a decade+ absence.

ita !, I've actually taken to photographing my pencil work in addition to my pastel work. I'm only scanning things like ink sketches and paint. I do adjust contrast and saturation in iPhoto (and occasionally Sketch Book Pro), and that seems to work. In the case of the pencil sketch here, I liked the look of the grey as I played with exposure and contrast, so I kept it.

Thanks, ita !. I'll show DH the links.