.art: Every bended knee (Castiel; Dean)

[aesc]

I've been listening to Iron & Wine's The Shepherd's Dog a lot lately, and I really love the album's opening track, "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car." Sometimes earworms manifest themselves in art... I'm waiting for the day "All the Single Ladies" ends up controlling a piece of McKay/Sheppard. It's inevitable. Originally the piece was going to be completely different, but the typography came out of nowhere. Now there are a couple pieces, one with just the typography and a couple of wallpapers yay! Walls are one of those things where, if you're doing large art, you might as well make a wallpaper while you're at it.







This is the original piece, with just Castiel. The brushwork is actually three different text brushes that correspond to parts of the lyric, "my love is one / made to break / every bended knee." The font is Baskerville Old Face.

And oh hai, wallpaper! There are a few versions, one with Castiel and one with Castiel and Dean.

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If you have a monitor with a different resolution, let me know what the dimensions are and I can most likely customize the wallpaper for you. Please don't be afraid to ask; it's really quite easy ♥

(And you should really listen to the song because of how it is awesome; it's here.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/rilla_/]

God, all of your graphics are SO beautiful, I can't even get over it. Wow.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥ Thank you!!

Oh man, I want to be where your icon is. It looks nice.

[barefoot-chick.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the day "All the Single Ladies" ends up controlling a piece of McKay/Sheppard. It's inevitable.

No, no, don't say it!

*sigh*

Now I'm picturing McKay and Sheppard in high heels and leotards and it's all your fault.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

My work here is done :)

[dramaa-princess.livejournal.com]

beautiful work!! wow!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! ♥

[olympia-m.livejournal.com]

wow! these are just gorgeous!!! and you made wallpapers!!!! *huge squeeee* of utter delight and happiness :)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you so much! And the wallpapers just needed to be done... Already got a big piece going so might as well go all the way :)

[cherazz22784.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's a fantastic drawing! I wish I could draw that well!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! ♥ Not all of it is drawing, some of it was tracing over a screencap from 4.07 (the park scene at the end ♥) because Misha's face is too pretty to mess up :D

[ran-cl.livejournal.com]

I am using it as my wallpaper now . Thank you for making this :D Your style is so simple & poetic. I still can't forget the beautiful cover art you did for pandarus's "The Consequences of Falling" BTW :3

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...I flail full mightily at your icon, hi.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh gorgeous.

*draws a heart carefully on the back of your hand*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥!! :">

[lenyia.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Oh, Cas ♥

[http://users.livejournal.com/sapphirestar_/]

gorgeous. ♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you!

[insight2.livejournal.com]

with his gun the pagan angel rose to say...

That's Castiel wrapped up in a single line and the typography does just that <3

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, every time I hear that line, I think of Castiel :D

[lenkti.livejournal.com]

Damn, you do the most amazing things with text. Gorgeous work.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I really do love text a WHOLE lot :D

[smilla02.livejournal.com]

I adore what you did with text here, if I cross my eyes, the text under Castiel's eye looks like the smudge of a tear and that's just an amazing effect. The quotes are so Castiel!
♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*hugs you up!* Thank you, A!! I really love that song; I think of Castiel every time I hear it, and I've been itching to do something with it :D :D

[42footprints.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful. The shading of the skin around the brow, and the directions of the hair growth, are both incredibly well observed. Gorgeous <3

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had some help from the screencap with the hair, I have to admit; the sloppiness makes it rather complicated :D

[lee-ashburn.livejournal.com]

Wow..gorgeous artwork!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! ♥

[catoasapun.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is beautiful..^_^ *loves*

Really great work.

Iron & Wine lyrics ftw!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh man, a friend of mine sent me some Iron & Wine last year and I've been hooked ever since. The lyrics make me deeply happy, and the covers... "Such Great Heights" and "Waiting for Superman" always make me sniffly.

[seleneheart]

I'll snag the song, thanks!! The name is interesting.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

The song itself is very interesting... twisty and complex. The thing, though, is it's hard to listen to an I&W song in isolation--a lot of the songs in any given album rely a lot on each other.

(Wayyyy belated edit to add: So if you like "Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car," you should definitely get the rest of the album. And then all I&W's other stuff :D)

[latvela.livejournal.com]

You always make the most gorgeous art! Also, I love your Cas icons! So beautiful. Can I snag one? Will credit if so :)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! And yes, feel free to snag whatever you'd like :)

[shadowhuntress.livejournal.com]

Ooooooo, purdy! I love the effect you did with his hair and the typography along his jawline. So creative. ♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you!! That is actually all text brushes in his hair--they were unexpectedly very versatile :D

[ashlan.livejournal.com]

ohhh, that's really interesting. I like how you used the typography in the image. (and the textures.) Is that a drawing?

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ♥

Is that a drawing?

Just a bit of it is actual original drawing, but a good part of it's tracing over a screencap (mostly his profile, which I did not want to get wrong... he's just too pretty to mess up *g*). I got a drawing tablet a couple of weeks ago, and I've been playing with it ever since :D

[animotus.livejournal.com]

OMG,is this a drawing?
You're always so unique!Your style just amazes me!♥

[aesc.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥! Thank you!!

OMG,is this a drawing?

Hee, just a little bit of it is original! I had to rely on a screencap from 4.07 (it's the park scene, best ever!!) because I didn't want to destroy the prettiness that is Misha's face. It's all digital, though; the textures were meant to simulate a piece of good, heavy drawing paper, and the text brushes sometimes mimic a thick, scribbly pencil line.

(The screencap that's left, which is mostly Misha's profile, is really heavily manipulated--desaturated, screened several times, and then had the levels messed with to get that pencilly effect.)

[juh1988.livejournal.com]

Omg, it's beautiful! Really, really beautiful. Thank you so much!

<3

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you! I'm glad you liked it! :)

[kaczurda.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is so amazing. Castiel + Iron & Wine = epic win.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you! I love both of these things as well :D

[leyna55.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is stunning, and the typography is wonderful

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! (Heee, bowlerhat!Dean!)

[nyaubaby.livejournal.com]

I am completely speechless. The effects and the typography!!!!

I really really love how you made Castiel face to fade away and be that soft almost only shades and have the strong big letters to give a memorable effect.

It's amazing...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I really like that cap of him... the way the light falls helped the fade-out effect, and it, you know, emphasizes his prettiness :D

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beautiful!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! :) :)