Art: Slowly, With Each Touch and Each Kiss (Masterpost)

[dancing_adrift]

Title: Slowly, With Each Touch and Each Kiss
Rating: G (NC-17/Explicit for fic)
Fandom: Supernatural RPF
Pairing: Jensen/Jared, mention of past Jared/JDM and Jensen/other
Characters: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
Summary: Art for Slowly, With Each Touch and Each Kiss, written by whispered_story and created for the 2019 spn_reversebang challenge.

STORY SUMMARY: When Jensen starts coming to JD's, the cocktail bar where Jared works, Jared is instantly interested in him. What starts out as a one-night stand quickly becomes a casual arrangement that Jared could easily see turning into more. But Jensen isn't looking for something serious and Jared would rather settle for being friends with benefits than not having Jensen in his life at all.



READ THE STORY! (AO3)


THE ORIGINAL PROMPT


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Title: "Top Shelf"
Prompt Description: Bartender (and pierced & tatted) Jared.

This whole collaboration is going to sound influenced by nepotism when you hear how it all came about. Any of you who've enjoyed my art before have probably noticed that Anna and I have collaborated A Lot. In our defense, it's only been intentional...once? I think? Every other time we've just been really, really, REALLY lucky, lol. We certainly enjoy it though, so no complaints from us!

Anyhoo, I was DMing Anna on Twitter one day, trying to brainstorm ideas for what to draw for the upcoming RB season. Anna, being the ever-helpful friend that she is, made a few great suggestions, one of which was, of course, "bartender Jared".

So, yeah. I drew that.

To be fair, the idea was instantly appealing, relevant, and inspirational, which are all very good (read: motivational) qualities of a RB art idea.

And then I found this gorgeous photo by German photographer Moss from one of my favorite resources, unsplash.com and I was pretty much set. I already had an idea of how I wanted the final art to look, and this photo which I used (in pieces) for my background played a huge part in creating the feel I wanted.

BANNERS & DIVIDER

~Header Banner~

You've already seen one header banner, the smaller of two which I made to fit within size guidelines for our post at the spn_reversebang LJ community. Again I used that gorgeous bar photo for the background, along with text in "Natural Script" from another favorite resource, 1001fonts.com and, surprisingly, Courier New fonts.


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I then also made this larger banner using the original prompt. Because, Jared. *shrug emoji* What can you do?

~Divider~


I always feel like, as an RB artist, that I have to make at least a header and banner for whatever fic gets written to accompany the original art. I also, in my infinite laziness, really like it when I can use a part of that original piece like I did with the fruit and drink here.

BONUS ART & THANK YOUS

~Bonus Art~


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Here, have a bonus piece of art just because I really enjoy fonts (here we have "Atomic Clock Radio" and some iteration of "Aliens & Cows") and playing around with multiple programs (most of the art was done in Corel Painter Essentials, but I did some tweaking of the font in Picasa for this bonus piece).

~Thank You!~

As always, thank you to Sammie (non_tiembo_mala) and Jen (gluedwithgold) who, though I'm sad they weren't writing for this challenge, were both most excellent art critics and cheerleaders. ♥♥♥

It should go without saying, but thank you (AGAIN) to my incredible author. I hope you love the amazing (and lengthy, I'm so freaking lucky) fic Anna wrote - be sure to leave her lots of love!!

Thanks also to the amazing mod(s). Thanks for checking in and making sure all is well, and for wrangling everything from prep to claims to posting. You rock!!

Last but not least, THANK YOU. I hope you love the art, and the fic inspired by it! ♥

♥♥♥

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Your art is really wonderful

[dancing_adrift]

Thanks, Anon! ❤

[amypond45]

Well, it took me five minutes to figure out how to leave a comment, but I think I've got it!

Wonderful art, as usual! I'm looking forward to reading the story <3<3<3

[meus_venator]

Beautiful work. I love when an artist marries real life imagery and illustration, and this really really works here!!!! And, sweet expression on Jared's face. I think he would have made an excellent bartender in real life : )

[dancing_adrift]

oh dear! lol. Thank you for taking the time to figure out commenting!! I'm so glad you liked the art, and I'm certain you'll LOVE the story!! Enjoy! <3

[dancing_adrift]

Thank you so much! Using photographs in combination with digital drawing is my lazy but suuuuper effective method, mmhm. I'm glad you like it (and I couldn't help myself, with such a gorgeous photo to use!!). Thank you for the lovely comment <3

[madebyme_x]

You two really are a dream team - I always adore your collabs! you bartender Jared really is just irresistible , and I love the details of the piercing, tattoos and the bar. Simply gorgeous! Thank you for sharing :)

[dancing_adrift]

Thank you so much! I always appreciate your kind comments ❤ I'm so happy you liked the art (again) and hope you've had a chance to enjoy the fic by now too! ❤❤❤

[beelikej]

Your Jared is darling! Love the little peeks of tattoos and his head tilt and piercings and the way his hair flows. Great use of that photo in the background, it works very well with the drawn elements on the bar and it makes Jared *pop*. I wouldn't call you lazy for creating dividers out of those pieces, it's inventive and pulls the whole set together:)

[dancing_adrift]

Gah, thank you SO MUCH <3 I do indeed like when an art set feels cohesive, so my methods certainly work for that! X'D I'm glad you like the art - thank you as always for letting me know with such a lovely comment <3

[masja_17]

Gorgeous! Love this Jared! Thank you for prompting!

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[dancing_adrift]

Thank you so much for commenting! I'm sorry I didn't respond to this until so much later. I always appreciate the love!! I'm happy you enjoyed the art <3