Restfield

Buffy Summers, Class Protector

rbfvid — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:22:01 GMT

Punk Spike

rbfvid — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:50:28 GMT

Punk Spike manip

Stock credit:

Street Ruins - 2 by mjranum-stock

Matrix Stock by MD-Arts

Night Terror 3 by Nolamom3507

The Slayer

rbfvid — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 16:12:24 GMT

Quick Buffy manip (well, you know, if it didn't take months, then it's quick).
Originally it was ment to be a kind of post-apocalyptic wishverse, Buffy but that part didn't quite work out =)

Stock & resources credit:

Background by ElenaDudina

Hunting by KaylaDavion

Hair Brushes by redheadstock

BtVS screencaps from BloodQueen website

Dramatic Spike

rbfvid — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:49:29 GMT

I'm trying to remeber how to use Photoshop, so here is a dramatic Spike manip:

Hmm, if Angel and Spike entered Dramatic Posing Contest, who would win?

Stock image credit:

Adding livejournal blogs to your DW reading page

rbfvid — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 10:55:27 GMT

Just in case you need it, there is a way to add any LJ blog to your DW reading page.

To do so go to your DW feeds page (Settings - Read - Feeds) and in "Feed URL" window enter http://lj_username.livejournal.com/data/rss (replace lj_username with the actual username of LJ blog you want to subscribe to).
After that DW will display another page prompting you to enter a name for the feed. Enter it, and then subscribe to it.
If someone had already subscribed to that LJ feed before, DW will display an existing link. Click on it and subscribe.

You can subscribe both to personal journals and communities. Naturally, you will see only public entries, but it's still better than noting.

Everything I put in the ground withers and dies (Drusilla manip)

rbfvid — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:49:49 GMT

Everything I put in the ground withers and dies

Inspired by this Photoshop tutorial by Jenny Le.

Angel and Spike... um... character study.

rbfvid — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:41:45 GMT

A little manip for "Spike Goes To Get A Pet" theme at nekid_spike (because how could I miss this one?). Angel decided to join, too.

White Kitten Stretch stock by Della-Stock.

As a bonus, there are some art process pictures, to demonstrate the amount of trouble I'm willing to go through just for kittens and puppies.


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Banner re-upload

rbfvid — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:37:16 GMT

As LJ becomes less and less reliable nowdays, I've uploaded fanfiction banners I made to deviant art. You can get them here: http://restfield.deviantart.com/gallery/.
"The Letters" banner is slightly revised, other images remain unchanged.
ETA: "Between Past and Present Tense" banner was slightly edited as well.

I also started uploading my episode stills image collection to AtS Caps, seasons 1-4 are already done. Hardly anything new here, but in case you need them...

Oh, and happy upcoming New Year, everyone!
(Though my feelings today are better described by Gunn):
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Not thinking about Buffy

rbfvid — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:27:51 GMT

A bit of fanart made for whedonsecretsanta exchange on Tumblr. A gift for books-tv-swiftie who wished for anything Spuffy.
Huge thanks to sueworld2003 for the beta (and also for being a person who inspired me to try photoshoping, because her art is awesome).

Not thinking about Buffy

Reminders

rbfvid — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:20:54 GMT

If there are any graphic makers reading this, here is a reminder - Seasonal Spuffy banner contest could use more entries ;) The deadline is October 23.

Also, it's the last day to sign-up for Nekid Spike's Reverse Minibang, sign ups close at October 22nd. This is a challenge where artists create at least one piece of artwork featuring characters from BtVS/AtS. Then art is posted anonymously to be claimed by an author.

I envy Dottie

rbfvid — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:04:04 GMT

Just stopping by to share the picture that made my evening, posted by Rebekah Issacs on her tumblr blog:

NYCC commission - Spike with Dottie, the client’s cat

The kind of commission I could make, too... *ponders*

Angel the Series screencaps

rbfvid — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:20:37 GMT

In case anyone needs DVD-quality screencaps of Angel the Series, I'm continuing to upload them here: http://atscaps.piwigo.com.
Seasons 2-4 are fully uploaded, season 5 is in progress.
Images are tagged per character, so you can use it as a reference guide, like, to find out where particular characters appeared in the same frame. You can also use search page to limit tags to specific season or episode.

Nom-nom-nom!

rbfvid — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:52:14 GMT

Couple of my manips has been nominated at the wicked_awards: Someday My Prince Will Come (Willow/kittens) and Too Cool for Cats (Spike/kitten); I think I feel a theme here.
Thank you, whomever nominated me (and also to kittens - for inspiration)!

Nomination period is open till the end of August, so, if you have some worthy fanworks in mind... well, there are still several categories that could use more noms ;) They accept both fanfiction and graphics this round.

Season 6 "Something Blue" AU

rbfvid — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 13:49:14 GMT

Yay, I managed to do something creative for the first time in a couple of months. Go me!
It's a banner for Elysian Fields Artistic Anniversary Challenge, inspired by this prompt by hconn.

Huge thanks to feliciacraft for being my beta and generally awesome person.

The full promt for the banner:
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Tara, Willow
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 6, Based on this prompt by hcconn: http://hcconn.tumblr.com/post/147694794074/ (with hcconn's permission)
Must have:
1. Willow's "My will be done" spell happening in S6 instead of S4 "Something Blue"
2. Spuffy engagement
3. Willow wishing to life more confident or darker/bad girl version of Tara
Can have:
1. Willow's wills for Giles and Xander different than in "Something Blue"
Can’t have:
1. Chartacter or ship bashing

Banner claiming on EF will open tomorrow, Aug 7, and there are a lot of great prompts and banners. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Angel season 2 caps and random thoughts

rbfvid — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:48:05 GMT

I'm currently screencapping season 2 of Angel, so here are some pointless observations:

- Angel tends to endure entire conversations with the same face expression. Well, serious conversations. It changes drastically when he has a chance to be goofy. AtS would probably benefit a lot from being a comedy.

- Cordelia, on the other hand, can go through 10 expressions in one second. I am not even exaggerating. Much.

- Gunn gets so little screen time comparing to other core characters. Like, about twice less than Cordelia or Wesley.

- Gunn and Cordy have such a great chemistry, I almost forgot. (I ended up rewatching "First Impressions" instead of capping it.) It's a crime that they get so few scenes together later in the series. Gunn and Wesley are great, too. (And let's not think about what comes later.)

- Wesley and Angel often have so similar body language and face expressions. On smaller thumbnails it's even hard to tell them apart. I wonder, if it's natural thing or Alexis Denisof mimicked it on purpose.

- Angel and Lindsey look like twin brothers, too. Well, no surprise here, it's the whole point of Lindsey's character.

- Lilah's face is much more expressive than I recall. The nonchalant stiffness that I remeber actually appears only in life-threatening situations. She just visually freezes, often with a blank expression on her face. Made me wonder, what Lilah's backstory could be.

P.S. If anyone needs them, Season 2 caps are currently uploaded there: http://atscaps.piwigo.com (address will be definetly valid till Aug 26, but there is a chance that I won't extend it after that).

Too Cool for Cats

rbfvid — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:50:48 GMT

Oops, it's been a while since there was any quality content on my blog.
And by quality content I mean, of course, cats. And Spike.
So, here is one poor innocent kitten and one irredeemably evil Spike, exposing it to the second-hand smoke.

Alley background by indigodeep

A bit of Buffy fandom history

rbfvid — Sun, 29 May 2016 13:47:17 GMT

There has been interesting discussion on Buffy fandom history at rahirah's tumblr. (Ok, probably not exactly a discussion, just rahirah answering questions on how the Seeing Red disaster originally went in 2002.) Among other things she mentioned Succubus Club radioshow, where buffyverse writers were invited for interviews.
Turns out, that some of those radioshows, mostly from 2002 and 2003, are stil available here, thanks to Wayback Machine. Including Steven DeKnight's interview, that he gave soon after the airing of "Seeing Red".
I've been listening to it, some things didn't change at all - basically, everything about Spike and Spuffy. Absolutely the same points still pop up in every other S6 discussion today. And DeKnight acknowledges that some things were handled poorly.
But when it comes to discussion of Tara... is it just me, or both DeKnight and hosts sound cringeworthy by the modern day's standarts? They dismiss Tara fans' outrage as overreaction ("we just treated Tara/Willow like every other couple in the show"), they joke about lesbians sabotaging studio equipment... That's so not how damage control over killing a gay character is done nowdays. It looks like the opposite of damage control, tbh, because "oh, you are just overreacting" is the thing that brings only more outrage.
Just compare it with Jason Rothenberg apologizing for what he did with a certain character in The 100.
I get where it's coming from - DeKnight is viewing it from writer's perspective. Tara's death leads to the good story, so there is nothing to apologize about, it's just a well-constructed plotline. But it looks so weird today, that neither him or the hosts acknowledge that there is need for empathy, for some kind of apology. It doesn't matter how good the story is, when some fans are seriously hurt by it. Just tell them you are sorry, tell them that you were a bad person to hurt them, why is it so difficult?

Looking for "Spike in a horror movie" recs

rbfvid — Mon, 02 May 2016 19:59:59 GMT

Seen this gifset on Tumblr, with a caption "Spike would be an awesome character to drop in a horror movie", and now I suddenly want to read a fic about that.
Do you have any recs? Crossovers or not crossovers, anything about Spike being Spike in a horror setting (well, you know, where he is not a monster; at least not the biggest one).

Mini-bang banner: "Between Past and Present Tense" (Willow/Oz)

rbfvid — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:21:57 GMT

Another banner for nekid_spike's minibang, this time it's for Oz/Willow story "Between Past and Present Tense" by punch_kicker15.

Mini-bang banner for Gabrielle's story "Exhumation" (Joyce)

rbfvid — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:45:36 GMT

For nekid_spike's mini-bang I was lucky to be paired with the talented Gabrielle to make art for her story Exhumation (Buffy, past Angel/Joyce, PG-13).
The fic is part of the "Answering Prayers" 'verse, but could be read on it's own as well.
Predictably, I made a banner. Not so predictably - it's animated and pretty heavy (about 2 mb).

PSA - Pay What You Want sale of Buffyverse comics

rbfvid — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:06:05 GMT

In case someone missed it, a fair number of Buffy & Angel comics (meaning - both IDW and Dark Horse titles) are on sale at Humble Bundle. It's pay what you want for 11 items or $15 for the whole bundle of 33.

Using Anya icons because she would approve the price. (As a buyer. Probably not as a shop owner. Hmm, now I wonder what would Anya say about the whole "pay what you want" concept if she ever encountered it.)

Buffy Genfic is Back!

rbfvid — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:16:45 GMT

After a hiatus, buffy_genfic is back! If you are unfamiliar with it, it's buffyverse gen fic/art exchange event.
Theme of the current round is Rupert Giles - Early Years for fic and Shadows and Light for art. Check it out, you have till March 18 to sign up!

Fic Poster: Venus and Mars (Darla)

rbfvid — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 01:04:26 GMT

Poster art for one of my favorite stories, Venus and Mars by Glassdarkly (aka shapinglight).
I had a lot of fun while making it. First of all, because it's incredibly rich story (yes, it's a rec!) with so many possibilities for interpretation. Plus, it gives a perfect excuse to go through Victorian dress collections, imagining Darla and Dru in fancy historical gowns. (Poor Dru, she didn't get her dress from me after all. I should rectify it someday.)

So, here is the banner...
Warning: graphic depiction of blood

Some of the sources used:
Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli
Wounded or dead nude by felixdeon
Dress by Charles Frederick Worth
Picture Frame by AmaranthusCaudatus
Blood textures by supercaptain

Award noms and some pimpage

rbfvid — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:04:01 GMT

Thanks to the wonderful persons who nominated "In the Corner of My Soul" and "Making of Dawn" at rwsawards, you both made my week =)

Also, do you remember that there is still voting going on at tonyhead_awards? I have a very secret insider info, that there are ties in several categories, including Art and Giles Story cats. Don't disappoint the watcher, go and vote! (Yes, even you, feliciacraft! :P )

And, if you for some reason missed it, there are Vampires, Demons and Hunters Minibang signups open at nekid_spike.
You can sign up to write a story/make an art about ANY buffyverse characters, not necessarily Spike.

It is a members only community but joining is easy, just go here.

If you are curious about the dates, you have plenty of time to complete a story of minimum 2000 words length:

Artist sign-ups: February 1st - February 25th
Author sign-ups: February 1st - February 25th
Fic summaries for claiming due: March 29th
Preview claims: March 30th
Claiming: March 31st
Posting: April 24th - 30th

Author sign ups are here.
Artist sign ups are here.

Blondes or Brunettes? (Spike/Damon/Dean art for blondebitz)

rbfvid — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:05:19 GMT

My Secret Valentine exchange entry for blondebitz who wanted Spike/Dean Winchester/Damon artwork, not sad and not angsty (romantic would be nice).
Well, I pretty much failed the romantic part... **sad guilty puppy eyes**
But at least it's not sad and angsty for sure.
Homage to this Angel & Faith comics cover, which was, in turn, homage to this Archie cover.