SPN Reverse Bang 2020 #2 - The great escape - Artpost

[aomasade]

My first reverse bang and my second prompt. I'm so excited. The original cover “Dream Team” was claimed by the talented bananenjoghurt9 (GreenQueen86), who wrote the romantic love story “The great escape”. Our great collaboration led to additional works of art such as a banner, chapter headings, dividers and scene pictures.
I created or edited the art with PhotoScrape X.

Warning: Spoilers in art!

Art Title: Dream Team

Prompt Number: R1005

Artist: aomasade [AomaSade on AO3]

Fic Title: The great escape

Author: bananenjoghurt9 [GreenQueen86 on AO3]

Fandom/Genre: SPN/RPS, Romance

Pairing: Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles

Rating: PG-13

Word Count: 23.666

Warnings: None

Summary: Jensen Ackles is the personal assistant of Jared Padalecki, whose dating app “PadaMeet” made him a multi-millionaire. It’s the job of his dreams - great salary, a lot of traveling around the world, stays at luxury hotels. But no free time. His boss is a workaholic and he expects the same from the people that work for him.
After three years, Jensen’s had enough.
One last convention weekend in Las Vegas.
He wakes up the next morning with a huge hangover and a ring on his finger...

Masterpost on SPN Reverse Bang Challenge

Art Link: AO3

Fic Links: LJ | AO3

Click on the pictures for view in original size.

Cover

Chapter Headings

Private jet in the sky

Las Vegas sign

Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

Water tower in Terrell

Ackles Antique Company sign

Jensen's house in Terrell

Jensen and Jared

Padackles Antique Company sign

More Art

Jensen and Jared and their jet set life

Jensen and Jared and their common house in Terrell

Jensen and Jared at the App Award 2011 event

Jared's mansion in Los Angeles

Jensen's house in Terrell

Impala with wedding sign "JUST MARRIED“

Las Vegas star

Terrell Texas map

Cell phone with the PadaMeet app

Antiques

SPN Reverse Bang 2020 - Original Prompt - R1005

Short description of art: Jensen Ackles works as a private secretary for financial mogul Jared Padalecki. A dream job! Top salary, traveling around the world, luxury accommodations, but no free time. His boss is imperious, presumptuous, but also generous as well as extremely attractive and unfortunately straight. Although Jensen has to step in as his “fiancé” from time to time in order to ward off unwanted advances. When his long-planned family vacation is canceled, it's enough for Jensen. He quits the job.
Jared has had an eye on Jensen for a long time and doesn't want to let him go. Fortunately they are in Las Vegas ...
Jensen wakes up the next morning hung over - with a ring on his finger and runs away furious. Of course, Jared chasing after his husband.

When I saw the photo of Jared and Jensen, I had the idea for my art contribution. The humorous twinkle looks out of the eyes of both actors. Jensen as a secretary who doesn't put up with anything and stands up to it. Millionaire Jared - generous - smiles at Jensen's antics. Jensen has the new ring on his finger. I let the skyscrapers circle around both of them, they are supposed to symbolize the financial world as well as wealth and power. And then - Las Vegas - the place of the quick deciders. Voilà!

First, I wanted to take up the Las Vegas theme and use the symbol on the cover and for the chapter headings.

But then I found the suggestion from bananenjoghurt9 better to design something suitable for each chapter. Common features are the Wedding Chapel sign and the font colors blue (men) and red (love). The font is similar to the famous Las Vegas sign. These motifs can be found on the cover and in the chapter headings. Here you can see the first drafts.

The lightness of this delightful love story is reflected in the colorful art of drawing. The star, also a recurring motif, is borrowed from the Las Vegas sign, other symbols are selected according to theme (airplane, star, wedding rings, water drops, armchair, balloons, hearts and furniture).

Comments

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the ReverseBang! Such a cool artprompt and I love that the story inspired you in return to create more art.

Framing J2 in between the skyscrapers gives them a very cool graphic design background:)
Those chapter headers with the emblems of Vegas landmarks are great and then telling the story of the two of them throughout is such a fun idea. (I also really like that you added those little icons above the text and changed up the stars for each one, it's such a dynamic set and still a unity)
Love all the extra pieces and the "painted" look of them is a lovely effect pulling all the pieces together. Extra kudos for the design of the PadaMeet app. <3

Sounds like you had a fabulous collaboration. Thank you for sharing the process as well, I always find it very interesting to learn how an artist makes decisions:)

A truely excellent artpost. *applauds like mad*

[aomasade.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Actually, the cover with the jet set life was my first draft. But the real figures did not match the drawn houses. So I looked for photos of skyscrapers and let them circle. So the cover looked a lot more dynamic and J2 are right in the middle, surrounded by wealth and power. I liked it so much that I submitted it as the second prompt. Everything else was a sure-fire success. My author and I coordinated with the story, exchanged ideas. With each finished chapter I got new clues and inspiration. I looked for symbols of the cities, clues ... - everything that went with the story and underlined it. There was Jensen's house, the peonies and the rainbow balloon, the impala and a lot more. The little things, icons, colors came to mind in the course of the collaboration. I was fine-tuning my art until the release date.
I had a lot of fun designing the company signs. The Ackles shield should look older and dated, while the new Padackles shield should be modern and chic. I love it when everything fits into an overall concept and have always tried to do some things the same and some things differently. I hope I managed to show dynamism and unity.
I am an avid fan of your art and love reading your art posts. I especially like "Black Cat Mercantile", "Storm's Eye",
"There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised" and "Not Fit To Live On Land". I have just finished reading GRIMOIRE and now I see brownies with completely different eyes. Your works of art are inextricably linked with the stories or the stories with your works of art. I wanted to achieve that too.

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

I am an avid fan of your art and love reading your art posts. I especially like "Black Cat Mercantile", "Storm's Eye",
"There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised" and "Not Fit To Live On Land". I have just finished reading GRIMOIRE and now I see brownies with completely different eyes. Your works of art are inextricably linked with the stories or the stories with your works of art. I wanted to achieve that too.

Ahw, thank you very much. Grimoire was my very first fandom challenge and I had such fun creating the brownie; I hadn't heard of those creatures before, so I was completely inspired by the story:)

[equally-dour.livejournal.com]

lovely work!

[aomasade.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.