Fan Art: The Greater Good (8 page comic + additional pages)

[petite_madame]

 Fan Art: The Greater Good (8 page comic + additional pages)

Warnings before downloading the files:
Gore and blood - Character death

 

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE COMIC HERE: www.megaupload.com/

EDIT: The 11 pages are now available separately at my website. Just click on the links below :

Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 7 - Page 8 - Page 9 - Page 10 - Page 11
 

First of all, a big THANK YOU to my incredible beta, maichan808  who did an amazing job (you can thank her for Balthazar's speech on p.4)

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What's the concept?

A prompt I filled for the sharp_teeth  community (requested by lexhibition ) (That damn comm is addictive... )

Castiel might regret doing this, but he does it anyway. He tells himself it's for the greater good.

This prompt left a lot of possibilities for BAMF!Cas', so I couldn't resist. In addition, I've been wanting to draw a short comic again for ages and this prompt was just perfect.

Tools of the trade:
 

- Graphite on paper:
* Staedtler Mars Micro 0.3
* Bic Matic 0.7
* Rexel Cumberland Derwent Graphic (various pencils from 3H to B)
* Caran d'Ache Grafwood 9B

 

- Photoshop CS

* Texture

* Blood splatters

* Grey shadows

* White highlights
 

- Manga Studio

* Focus lines (p.8)
 

How did you start?

 

I started with some doodles and sketches in my sketch book to give me some guidelines. I don't even know how it gave something coherent at the end because the first sketches had nothing to do with the final result. 

 

 

My sketch book on my lovely pink table. For the comic, I drew  with the A4 sheet of paper directly on the wood so sometimes you can see the texture of the wood appearing underneath the pencil drawing. For instance, on page 1 (the title page), I didn't add "noise" or a texture with the Photoshop texturizer, it's the wood of my table that gave this grunge effect.

Left page: A sketch I didn't use in the final version because it's uncorrect. If Castiel is facing the angel banishing sigil, the sigil should be reversed as if it was shown in a mirror. 

Right page: Sketches for page 3 and 5. 
 

You worked on...

 

A4 ordinary paper which is a mistake by the way because when you have to draw a face in small size, it's REALLY small. Next time, I will use A3 sheets, it will be more convenient. 

 

 

Voilà!

I hope you will enjoy the comic even if it's a little bit bloody!

See you at the end of the week for my May calendar.  

 

 

 

Comments

[petite-madame.livejournal.com]

You don't like Castiel, you want him off? That's a pity, I thing he's one of the most interesting character this season :3
I like him more and more.
Thanks for stopping by ♥

[hituiwen.livejournal.com]

I dont like him now - though it's not because his personality it's because of writing mostly.
But don't get me wrong - I like your style - blood and shades of grey is a great contrast, I like gore staff you did - hurt Dean, badly hurt Dean, even dead Dean - but idea of Cas killing Winchesters - NO WAY! :))

UPD - oh, i wanted to ask - any chance you will draw a sheriff Dean at some point?

[petite-madame.livejournal.com]

That's funny because you were one of the only one that was bugged by the idea of Castiel killing the Winchesters. All the other comments were focused on...the Impala XD I understand what you mean about Castiel :D

I really would like to draw Dean as a sheriff one day but with the BB coming up, it's gonna be difficult. During the month of May-June, from the fic claim to the posting date, I will put everything on stand-by except for my calendar and my auction for help japan. However, I drew this quick sketch about two months ago when we first heard about the rumors for a cow boy episode:
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/491/wanteddeadoraliveh.jpg

[hituiwen.livejournal.com]

uh... I love Impala but what a point have her safe if boys are dead? О_о

Aww, lovely sketch! I also saw sheriff Dean you posted on twitter - it's great!