#myspnart

2017, week 3. The theme for this week was ships, and no one thought this was funny but me, which was pretty typical then and now. At this point Destiel was just starting to become a thing and the fan camps were starting to form, so being around any of it at that time felt a lot like this.

I love mashups, and it was much more common in my work at this time, and I loved the idea of putting these two things together. I doubt it needs explaining, but the context is from the episode of Spongebob wherein Squidward is shrunken down, and Patrick is holding him and a pickle and keeps saying "now kiss!" making them kiss. It was more well-know at the time, and with Destiel emerging, this immediately came to mind.

I left the Spongebob image in its original state, and tried to match it by drawing the cartoon Cas and Dean as close to the Spongebob style while keeping them as recognizable as possible. This was the first time I'd really done anything in a cartoon style, so it always seemed in one way or another, I was doing something with these challenges that I'd never done before. So remember kids, even if you make things that people hate, you can still end up getting a useful set of skills out of the deal.

Cassie Robinson + Spring Ahead Palette

2017, week 8. I don't have the theme info, but the file says Gabriel, so that may have been it. Where my week 7 piece pissed everyone off, this one got a lot of positive feedback. I don't remember my exact motivation for this one, and that's what I get for always being so subversive when it came to the themes. I do remember wanting to contextualize what was happening as Sam and Dean went through the trickster gambit, but that's about it.

2017, week 4. The theme was Sam. It's on the small side now because it was made for the gif perimeters at the time. I remember making this one, but also that I didn't have some big plan for him like with some of the others. I used to look at the whole theme schedule, and start making notes about things for the whole season, but in this case, I wanted to do something that encompassed his character rather than highlight any particular moments, which I'd done the previous season. That's where the idea of the aura came from.

There's a blooming light coming from him and sparkling colored light around, and that's really how I had always pictured him, so weirdly, it felt kind of intimate to me, though I'm not exactly sure why, I wasn't then and I'm not now, but somewhere in that is how he reads to me. Plus, sparkly stuff is fucking rad.

2017, week 10. There's no theme info on the file, but at this point, I was really feeling my new giffing abilities. I don't remember my original motivation for this, or the theme, but it holds with some of the other things I did in the series, and it's actually more complicated than it looks. I stacked up the gifs and still images like a collection of loose photos, but called back to week 5 with the Star Wars-inspired idea of physical images that move, as well as the scrapbook page from the 2016 season.

The large-sized anti-possession symbol in the back is a static image that I made and then animated, so this piece has a little of everything.