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After reading the story the first time through, I sketched out 4 out of my 5 ideas. In the end, I only went with 3 of those and I wound up with 3 full sized pictures (one hadn't been planned at all) and the breaker/chapter title image.
This is the breaker - plain and simple. I'm not going to post up the chapter title versions because there are 9 of them and they're all the same, just different text. It was the first picture I finished.
Second picture I drew was this one - it was, to me, the most important one: The scene where Jimmy performs magic - skyclad. That scene immedietly called to me, so I had to make sure I did that. I would like to note that in Jimmy's case, I did use a reference photo from this awesome DeviantArt account: The Male Nude Stock
This scene where Dean is pining and imagining the twins in the bed with him was just so sad and poignant that I had to do it. I finished the entire picture without the ghostly version of the twins in it because I wasn't sure I could pull it off and make it look right. And as I struggled to find the right way to depict them - I must have discarded like, a dozen attempts - I hit upon the idea that a GIF would be perfect for this. But if we had to pick one version out of the 4 in the gif, Blue and I liked this one best.
This is the very last picture I made - using stock references that I cropped down from the same DeviantArt Account. I think I'm in love lol. This picture was not in the original plan, but my original plan had been created before Blue finished writing the final scenes...and the other pictures were fighting me too much. I think this was a good replacement though.
At our first check in, this is what my Rough Drafts looked like - which also gives you a sneak peak on one of the pics that I did NOT do.