A Journal of Improbable things.

Supernatural Reverse Big Bang 2013

2014-01-16T00:46:00Z

Art Title: The Hell-monster in the Cellar

Prompt Number: 1078

Artist: ammo
Fic Title: Ex Machina

Author: missyjack
Total Words: 8,000
Genre(s): Gen, Season 9 case!fic, bunker!fic
Characters: Team Free Will
Notes: I wanted to do something kind of different, a larger-scale type of monster for the guys to play around with. I tried to push myself a little more with various aspects of this image as well, and I had a lot of fun drawing this one. missyjack's story took this idea and ran with it! It's a great romp, and I'm so honored to have her pick my picture and come up with such a fun story! Thank you so much!
Fic Link: LJ // AO3
Tumblr link

DCBB 2013 Art Master post

2013-11-13T18:46:42Z

Title: Alexandria
Author: tikific
Artist: ammo
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairings: Dean/Cas, Sam/Jess, Metatron, Bobby, Benny, Crowley, Kevin, Garth, Ash, Victor, Lucifer, Abaddon, Uriel, Naomi
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 77,000
Warnings: Cursing, sexual situations.
Summary: Fantasy AU. Castiel De Angelus is a bladesmith finishing his apprenticeship in a sleepy seaside town and caring for his two younger brothers. But when he runs afoul of the new territorial governor, Metatron, he finds himself shanghaied and forced to serve at a remote desert fortification run by the boisterous Winchester family. This ancient outpost, carved out of a mountain by the legendary Men of Letters, is part of mankind's last line of defense against the mysterious desert-dwelling monsters known only as the Enemy. But the real enemy might just be the Winchesters's scheming rival, Lucifer. This one is pure Saturday afternoon serial: think Indy Jones meets Dune with just a splash of Kitchen Nightmares.
Fic link: Fic Masterlist, AO3

Art link: Art Masterlist, tumblr

Notes: This was such a fun romp. Tiki was great to work with, and I had a hard time picking which scenes to illustrate. I wish I could have found the time to do more, but I'm pleased with the results of the ones I did manage! Also thanks to my Livestream amigos for all your support and general wackiness. <3

My initial thought for the "poster" was kind of an 80s movie vibe with simple elements and bold colors. And then this happened, oops. Tiki's initial description of the story being a "Saturday serial" stuck with me, and when I was brainstorming my art I kept trying to think of some way to work with that. I've forgotten exactly how it happened, but I somewhere in there I had the idea to use the Prince Valiant-styled Sunday fantasy comic strip format. After i nailed that down, it all fell right into place.

(From Chapter 4). I pretty much wanted to draw something with Benny. Oops. And Sam. And y'know, those other two. The map on the wall was Z's creation, a flooded USA.

(From Chapter 12). I actually drew this page first even though it comes later in the story. It was a bit of a tester page, and I was happy with how it worked. I had more in mind originally for Lucifer's design, but of course had to keep it simple for this format. Ah well. For Castiel's magic, I wanted something that looked like a pulp-sci-fi-low-budget effect. I used these tech ring brushes and then just had fun with layers and blurring.

Speaking of designs, this is the first sketch I sent Tiki, to show the ideas I was picking up from the story. She later said Cas reminded her of a Grumpy Skywalker. Yeah, that works. I also leaned more towards "explorer" than "soldier" for Sam's look. I liked his goggles, so they got to stick around in the one page.

Okay but enough about this stuff. Go read the story!

Jimmy Big Bang 2013 - No Gods, No Kings... Only Man

2013-03-22T17:11:00Z

Story: No Gods, No Kings... Only man (AO3)
Challenge: jimmybigbang
Author: dextrosinistral
Artists: ammo and h4ppy_fun_b4ll (art post)
Media: Digital art
Rating: Art is PG (just some blood, and also a beach).
Notes: Thank you to my partners, you're both lovely and awesome :)

2012 Sassy Mini-bang Art Masterpost

2012-12-12T23:10:50Z

Title: Strange and Beautiful
Challenge: sassy_minibang

Author: remivel
Art Rating: PG
Fic Masterpost

artpaperscissor round1

2012-11-21T03:16:29Z

Title: Learning to drive
for: artpaperscissor
rating: G
characters: Dean Winchester and Castiel
Warnings: none

I was tagged with "Learning to Drive", soooo...

Supernatural Reverse Big Bang 2012

2012-11-19T01:56:04Z

Art Prompt Title: Possession
Prompt Number: 1048
Fic Title: Possession
Author: misachan
Fandom/Genre: SPN, Drama, Romance, Case!fic
Pairing(s): Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 11k
Summary: Magical items and ancient books of lore are dangerous things and only should be handled with the utmost of care - especially when the magical item once belonged to an archangel. What you're looking for isn't always what you find. S5, set between "Free To Be You And Me" and "Dark Side Of The Moon."

Artist Notes: I really enjoyed the story that misachan cooked up for my prompt! She was great to work with, and I was very happy to add on one more picture for the final posting. This was such a fun bang all-around, it was great and I'll definitely try this one again next year. Thanks to friends and family and all for support along the way, as always <3

The orignal prompt image:

"Try Harder..."

2012 Superwholock Bang Art Masterpost

2012-11-06T00:31:57Z

Title: In Another Place
Author: wallmakerrelict
Challenge: swl_bang(Unfortunately deceased)
Notes: Sadly the challenge died out rather abruptly, but wallmakerrelict's fic was great, and I wanted to finish my part of the job, as well. Sorry again for the delays in finishing, but I'm so glad I did :) Both had some different artsy-challenges for me that were pretty fun to tackle (maybe not so much at first, I redrew parts of both several times, whoops). Thanks again to wallmakerrelict for her great fic, and my friends and huggers who put up with my lunacy and support me :)

Fic Masterpost

The two pieces are quite spoilery for the fic, so consider yourself warned!

Mass Effect Big Bang 2012 Art Master Post

2012-10-15T01:13:58Z

Art based on and created for "Die Hard the Hunter" by stormshaman Link: Die Hard the Hunter @Ao3 Artist: ammo Challenge: mebigbang Word Count: 22,324 Characters/Pairings: Multiple, primary pairings are FemShep/Kaidan, Joker/EDI, Dr. Chakwas/Engineer Adams Warnings: None Artist Notes: I had so much fun working with stormshaman on this, it was quite the pleasure! Thank you to my friends, family and huggers for their support while I worked on these. :)

DCBB 2012 Art Master post

2012-09-30T15:16:17Z

Title: Thursday's Child Has Far to Go
Challenge: deancasbigbang
Author: pinkyapples
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural, general fiction
Pairing(s): Dean/Castiel (pre-slash, Friendship)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 42,0594
Warnings: Language, Hell memories and violence.
Summary: Sam is battling his hallucinations. Dean is battling Dick Roman. Castiel is suffering amnesia. A hunt leads to unexpected revelations and reunions and the threat of a heavenly trial. It's all part of God's Plan B - what, you all thought God had left the building?
PDF: @Mediafire

Author's Note: My first DCBB, yay :3 It was a pleasure working with the lovely pinkyapples! And thank you to my friends and huggers for the support and suggestions, as always!

"Goodbye" Alenko/Shepard Mass Effect pic

2012-07-17T13:37:43Z

My first "complete and not totally sketchy and messy" Mass Effect fanart would of course be of these two. Anyway, the full, complete pic and some wip shots lurk beyond.... (I'm also trying to get caught up with posting some art here, whoops)

So, this is the final image, even though of course now I can see little bits I forgot to polish, but that's okay, it doesn't take anything away from the image, so I'm okay with it.

So, how did this get started? Oh, just one of my random daily doodles. I liked the tenderness before the final end, just a quiet moment. They've already fought their way through a good chunk of London, so already worn and bruised but nowhere near the end of the line.

Of course I spent the most amount of time on their faces. I repainted Shepard's like... three times. She's actually based on my custom Shepard, but I gave her the slightly redder hair of the default Jane Shepard, so it could work either way.

I actually put a lot of time into the background as well, using sketchup and screenshots to help me out.

Any-hoo, it was a lot more work than I expected, but a lot of fun too :3 The nice thing about ME is the way they build up the characters, and make you latch onto them and make you want to know and understand them. So the majority of my ME fanart is probably going to focus on characters and relationships. Just sayin'.

I also learned a bit about coloring shiny armor. Fun times.

Superwho Big Bang 2012 - Welcome to the Universe - art masterpost

2012-04-27T13:37:44Z

Story: Welcome to the Universe

Challenge: superwho_bb

Author: josandboatman

Artist: ammo

Media: Digital art

Warnings: Spoilers for the story. You may also want to consider not blinking.

Rating: Some fantasy violence.

Notes: Jos had to drop out at the last minute for personal reasons, but she asked me to post my art. We'll just say the story is WIP and that she'll post it when she can :)

These were a blast :3 I know say that sort of thing a lot, but I think I burst out in gleeful laughter more than once while working on the last two pics in this set especially.

Farmstead mini-comic and bonus sketch

2012-04-07T15:09:33Z

So I've been helping my friend Jess out (along with our friend usarechan) with a happy Supernatural domestic-y (and Dean/Cas) project called The Farmstead. I've helped her toss around ideas and work out some story plans, and I've done one mini-comic so far. I've done some comic page layouts for an upcoming story for it as well :)

Meanwhile, here's the mini comic and a bonus sketch...

Jess' little ficlet to go with the comic can be found here. It's also a bit looser than my other comic book-y stuff as of late, but I wanted it to feel a bit more relaxed all the way around.

I told Jess that I wanted Cas to enjoy drawing. This is a rough sketch that I'll clean up someday... Cas (with glasses at this point) in the upstairs not-quite-a-library-yet, which I think will turn into his favorite place to hang out.

Jimmy Big Bang 2012 - Black Sheep - Art Masterpost

2012-03-23T11:41:04Z

Story: Black Sheep
Challenge: jimmybigbang
Author: big_banggang
Artist: ammo
Media: Digital art
Warnings: Inside of a comic book store. May cause nerdy feelings.
Rating: Art is G.
Notes: The story is still WIP, but I was granted permission to post the art alone, until the story is ready. These pics were fun to do :3

(full size here) ... (... and yes, I totally spoofed the S6 promo photos for this - no regrets).

Borrowed Trouble page 2, inks.

2012-03-18T23:02:17Z

Content enough with the inks to move on to the coloring phase. Finally! Larger size here and tumblr post here.

Jimmy Big Bang 2012 - As I Tumble Through the Looking Glass and Fall Upon My Knees - Art Masterpost

2012-02-13T23:31:06Z

Story: As I Tumble Through the Looking Glass and Fall Upon My Knees
Challenge: jimmybigbang
Author: deans_fetish
Artist: ammo
Media: Digital art
Warnings: Slash m/m pairing. Also slightly spoiler-y scenes from the story.
Rating: Art is PG (however please do keep in mind the slash m/m pairing aforementioned), story is R.
Notes: This is my very first bang! And I'm still nervous XD Anyway, this story was a lot of fun to work with, and I had a hard time choosing which scenes to do. Thanks so much, deans_fetish!

Borrowed Trouble page 1.

2012-01-14T14:11:52Z

Original post.

Going back in time to page 1.

Borrowed Trouble page 1, inks

2012-01-10T03:53:53Z

I'm going back and doing pages 1-3 now, hrrrr. Larger version of the inks and further commentary at this tumblr post.

Borrowed Trouble page 5

2012-01-04T14:31:31Z

Full size and original post @ tumblr here.

I finally have a better working title for this, other than "goofy spn comic" - even though that description will probably best describe the project in the long run.

Don't Drink the Water

2011-12-28T20:05:38Z

There's blood in the water.

Original Tumblr post.

Also a small detail post here.

Supernatural original comic thing page 4 GO.

2011-12-14T14:05:20Z

Larger size and original post.

Oh yeah so I finished this thing. Page 5 is under progress, but I've been working on a commission, plus working in retail at the holidays is so fu-hu-hu-hu-hunnnnnnnn.

ammo @ 2011-11-22T19:57:00

2011-11-23T01:57:08Z

Somewhat larger size here.

Inks for another page pretty much wrapped up. May hold off coloring for a few days, we'll see.

And then husband made me cupcakes. I love cupcakes.

Jimmy

2011-11-16T22:03:16Z

"Trapped", larger size

So, I've signed up as an artist for two Big Bangs now. I've never really heard of big bangs until recently, I guess since I haven't really been part of a big fandom in a long time. Anyway, I signed up for a Superwho one, and one for Jimmy. I'm terrified. Anyway, here's a pic of Jimmy that I did a few months ago.

ammo @ 2011-11-09T22:17:00

2011-11-10T04:17:15Z

All finished, I think. Larger version here. :)

ammo @ 2011-11-08T20:06:00

2011-11-09T02:06:33Z

11/08/11 comments and larger size.

ammo @ 2011-11-05T18:39:00

2011-11-05T23:39:16Z

So I'm just screwing around with some Supernatural comic-book-like thing. I dunno. I have no idea how to make a comic, and I don't have a real script. Just ideas and procrastination. Anyway, this is the finished inked page I guess.