SPN Crossover Big Bang - Art

[switch842]

Behind the cut, you will find my artwork for the Supernatural/White Collar crossover story "Aiding and Abetting" written for the sncross_bigbang challenge. The art is quite spoilery for the story as it contains "illustrations" for several of the scenes. So, you might want to read the story first and then come check this out! :-)

STORY INFO:
Title: Aiding and Abetting
Author(s): phate_phoenix
Artist: switch842
Crossover: White Collar
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN EITHER SHOW.
Type: (Gen, Het, or Slash) Slash
Word Count: 33,135
Characters/Pairings: Dean/Neal, Castiel/Dean, Sam, Peter, El, Mozzie
Warnings: Blood, Mentions of spousal abuse (none of the main or minor characters)
Spoilers: Up to Appointment in Samarra (6x11) for Supernatural and Point Blank (2x09) from White Collar. It's AU from there.
Summary: The Winchesters are forces of change, often for the worse, and Neal Caffrey knows this better than most. Still, when Sam and Dean show up in his home twenty years after Neal fakes his death to get out of the hunting life, he can’t turn them away. Not even when their latest hunt puts him directly at odds with Peter and the rest of the FBI. Because, sometimes, change can be good.
Link to Story Master Post: Here


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Divider:


Illustrations:
The style with these is a little different than usual. What I was noticing as I was looking through the pictures I had of both White Collar & Supernatural is that the lighting styles between the two shows is very different. SPN is often under light or slightly blue in tone whereas WC has a much more natural feeling to it. I thought, instead of driving myself crazy trying to blend images together more seamlessly that perhaps I could play up the differences between them. I remembered back to my childhood where I would take (for example) a picture of the desert from National Geographic. Then, flip through the magazine and cut out a car and a dog and paste those on top of the desert picture. The results are the following collages. Quotes are from the story.









Master Collage:


Castiel/Dean/Neal:
I just wanted something with the three of them together.


Soundtrack:
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I Want You To Want Me
I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.

Closer
The floor is crackling cold,
She took my heart, I think she took my soul.

Misery
Not that I didn't care
It's that I didn't know
It's not what I didn't feel,
It's what I didn't show

Coming To Terms
Don't let go
I've wanted this far too long
Mistakes become regrets
I've learned to love abuse
Please show me what I'm looking for

Enter Sandman
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

Rooster
Ain't found a way to kill me yet

Leave Out All The Rest
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

For Good
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...


Hope you enjoyed!

Comments

[phate-phoenix.livejournal.com]

\o/ We did it! XD Thank you so much for all this great artwork. ♥♥♥ I had a great time working with you.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

WE DID!! :-D

I had a really great time with this. It was so great getting to meet you!! :-D

[phate-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I hope you have just as much luck finishing up your J2BB work! :)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! *fingers crossed*

[brihana25.livejournal.com]

I know less than nothing about White Collar, but these are awesome. You're awesome. Phate's awesome. The whole damn thing just reeks of awesome!

[brihana25.livejournal.com]

Thread jumping just to say: you're awesome. :D

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you hon!! You should start watching the show. Willie Garson is awesome and Matt Bomer is such pretty eye candy... :P

[phate-phoenix.livejournal.com]

8D

[daniel-shadow.livejournal.com]

I am so going to enjoy reading and drooling over this!! Congrats to both you and phate_phoenix!! Woot!!

[dapatty.livejournal.com]

You're work is amazing! Just gorgeous! And I love the idea of making it like a collage. Just . Yes. Amazing!

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! It's a really great story. :-)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It was definitely quite different from anything I've ever done before. :-)

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

Wow!

Nice job on the artwork!

[diane-mckay.livejournal.com]

this art is so cute. I love the way you decided to fit the two shows together. The collage-ness kind of gives me the feeling the characters are going to pop off the page and start moving around. I really like the font you used for dialogue as well. I feel a little weird thinking about it lol, but font expresses a lot in my opinion.

Anyway, this art makes me even more excited to read the story!

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :-)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I played around with a lot of fonts before finding one I liked. I'm a bit of a font-whore. ;-)

Glad this makes you excited to read the story. It's really good! :-)

[longbca.livejournal.com]

Lovely work!

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[demonic-fish.livejournal.com]

This is seriously genius. I mean it, it's not a hyperbole. The cut-out style of manips just merges so incredibly well with the fic, and it looks more finished and polished than trying to coordinate color/lighting/orientation on every image. I simply can't say enough how amazing the idea is. You also picked the caps so well. I actually giggled when I saw the Mozzie&Sam&Dean one, you captured the awkwardness of the moment so well. And aaaaw, Dean and Neal looking at each other from polaroids <3 I simply have no words. The black and white manips are gorgeous too, but I will be forever smitten by the humorous pieces.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. Thank you so much!

I will say that I was quite nervous about making the decision to go down this road with the art. I wasn't sure I could pull it off and I hadn't really seen it done before so I wasn't sure how well it would be received. But, all this amazing feedback has me very happy I have this a shot.

So, once again, thank you. :-)

[moodilylit.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, this art is just gorgeous.
I love the hasty collage effect and from what I'm getting from the bits of dialogue, I'm totally reading this!

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :-)

[coloredpain.livejournal.com]

oh my..your work is fantastic! it matches the story perfectly, and I love the collage thing going on...heh

everything looks so beautiful! (but I guess that with these boys...would be a tough job to make something ugly..;D..hihih)

great work, darling!
<3

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! This was definitely a fun one to work on. :-)