I think I'm done. I spent a lot of time on this instead of other projects, but I was really enjoying it. I'm especially happy with the background. Going into it, I wasn't planning to do individual bricks, but I think they worked out nicely. Leading with a mockup because looking at how things would be if they were real is fun. ETA: I redid the art again and removed the old versions. This version matches the style of the newest pages I've made for this project.
So the super long writeup of where this idea came from. I watched Supernatural for the first time this year and it quickly became one of my favorite shows. I was sad there wasn't a pop classics series children's book to go with my Buffy and X-files ones, which got me thinking about what a Supernatural children's book would look like.
I've also watched a few convention videos and ran across a cute song the band sings when Misha - who plays Castiel - is running late to his panel, called Where's Misha. One thing led to another, the title of this fake children's book is Where's Cass. I might make a few more pages over the next few months until I get bored. There are a couple I want to do and it's a good exercise for working on backgrounds.
The thoughts for this specific page are centered around storybook characters speaking directly to the reader and the reader seeing things the characters don't. I liked it in the early seasons when Cass would pop in at odd locations, so that's why he is where he is. I'm not 100% on the font, but it seems okay with my art style. About half of the dialogue is direct quotes from episodes. There are two versions, a physical book version and a digital version - where Sam and Dean are a bit bigger because they don't need to not be on a fold line.
I used a 3d model for the perspective and outlines on the Impala. Eques_inferno on Sketch Fab "Chevrolet Impala 1967" which they have up for free. The colors and everything else was free-hand. Cars are hard, like a fourth character.
Anyway, I hope you all like this thing I made this week. ❤️❤️