always these beds, always this light [SPN Fanart, Sam/Dean, PG-13]

[badbastion]

Title: always these beds, always this light
Artist: badbastion
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Contents: implied incest
Spoilers: none
Misc: This was the very first Supernatural picture I drew, before I really started lurking the fandom. Somehow I forgot about it! I must have drawn this during my first watching of S2 or 3, when I was convinced that Sam had always been secretly, desperately in love with Dean. And hey look, red Winsocks!







Casually stripping down, never self-conscious of his body. Walking around the motel room, strong, bowed legs bare, toes flexing in the carpet. The way he sat on the comforter with his legs spread casually to watch a little more tv before they went to bed. Stomach so smooth. It was more than Sam could stand.

Comments

[saltandburnboys.livejournal.com]

When you WERE convinced Sam had always been secretly in love with Dean. Were? Not are? Coz he totally always has been...lol.

I don't know how you manage to make this so hot when they're not actually doing anything!

I think you need to draw what happens next...*nudge nudge!*

Awesome work as always!

xx

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Haha! No, I still am convinced. I just have much more complex thoughts about them now than that :) This is just when it first hit me :D

Thank you very much!

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Ooo, love the play of light and shadow, all the lovely blue-gray light from the televsion screen.

What's the text from, a fic? *loves Sam-POV of Dean*

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I've always loved messing with light. That's probably my favorite part of a picture :)

Ah, the text is just my head-canon leaking out :D

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I LIKE your head-canon! That's a beautiful, vivid description, especially the part about Dean's strong, bowed legs and flexing toes. The actual illustration is the cherry on top, but ooo. Dean's bare legs and feet? Yeah, that image is stuck in my head now . . .

More head-canon, please! :D

[yohkobennington.livejournal.com]

Then we see your love for plaids showing from the beginnings xD

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Haha! The baby plaid, only a few stripes. And the motel rooms, I was already in love with those, too, even if I didn't do much of a background for this one :D

[cillab42.livejournal.com]

Sam I totally understand, Dean's a tease! As usual, you just get it.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Dean just doesn't know what he does to Sam, haha. Thank you!

[sleepypercy.livejournal.com]

Ooh secret art! With bright, beautiful sunlight pouring in! Ah, I love how uncomplicated this looks (well, you know, as uncomplicated as wanting your brother can be).

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Hee, old stuff! I love finding old stuff that I'd forgotten :)

Thank you very much!

[deansdirtybb.livejournal.com]

Yay! Early bas :) <3 the red winsocks..and Dean's legs mmmmmm. I love how you can tell what the expression on Sam's face most likely is just by the way you drew the tilt of his head and the line of his back/shoulders.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Haha, my ~early works :P Thank you! I'm always glad when my body language works out right :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I love the lighting! And I am convinced that lurking at the tops of Sam's winsocks are green stripes...bwhahahah!

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! haha, they must have bought a multipack, and kept losing them along the way :D

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

Amulet, treasure trail, socks, you've got a trifecta here bb!

:)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah! 1-2-3, we got it, lol.

Thank you :)

[cmsserenity.livejournal.com]

Squeeeeeeeeeee!

The lighting, again, is gorgeous.

SOCKS!! (I second that there are green stripes hiding under the denim.)

Thank you for sharing this and your inspiration at the time. I love hearing from other shippers how their minds established their particular head canon.

I may well have become one of your fangirls, as I might have guessed this was an earlier work. Your style is distinctive but (to my eyes) has evolved a bit beyond this, granting greater depth to the lighting, their hair, musculature... yeah. I could do on but I tend to be wordy. Heh.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, at this time I was drawing in anime/manga fandoms, and also I wasn't that familiar with these character designs, so it's pretty different :) Dean is an anime, lol. My style has changed a little since then (not quite a year ago, I think?) and I hope it will continue to--I really like looking at things I've drawn a year or two ago and seeing how it's morphed and evolved :)

[meesasometimes.livejournal.com]

god, please never stop.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

:D I don't want tooooo! Thank you :)

[marciaelena.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[equally-dour.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's lovely!

Also, Sam on his knees is a sight that pleases me greatly. :D

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Haha, you and me both. One thing I like about Sam on his knees? The way his big muscley thighs round out, mmmmm.

Thank you!

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

Ahhh this is so beautiful. Love the socks and the lighting and the amulet. Sam's pose is just so ~Sam, for some reason. Thanks for this. :-)

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! haha, it's a puppy-dog-eyes pose :D

[lyryk.livejournal.com]

Ha, totally. And now I just have to leave this here because I happened to have it handy:

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

yessssssss, that episode pretty much did me in re: wincest, lol.

[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

Winsocks have come a long way baby.. ;) I think as much as your beautiful art, the little summary, made my heart skip a beat. Sam has always been madly, deeply, and romantically in love with Dean.

In my head canon, he's the one that made the first move, the first touch. Late one night, under the covers of a cheap motel bed that he had to share with Dean. He was maybe 15, Dean 19, for years he had been quietly touching himself while thinking of Dean lying directly beside him. Bowed legs sprawled out over his, naked chest peeking out from under the sheet, the tiny slip of light from the Motel sign playing across his face, making his freckles stand out against his pail skin and Sam couldn't stand it any more. He caresses Dean's face, brushes his cheek with the back of his hand and Dean's eyes flutter open. There is awkward silence, stuttered breathing and unbreakable eye contact before Sam kisses Dean, lets himself taste the plump sultry lips he's been thinking about for years. He's not sure what he's doing, never kissed a boy before but to be hopelessly in love with his brother and never ever acting on it, that would crush his world forever. And here I go writing ficlets again in your comments. You can ban me if you want, I am a thunder stealer.

I can see your Anime influences in this one, you're pieces now are more representative of how they actually look but I love this style too. As Always, Sam in plaid and the Amulet. Again with the Emotion, the way Sam is kneeling between Dean's legs just does me in. Dean staring down at him like that.. really you know there is crotch nuzzling gonna happen any second.

Long comment is long.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I love your headcanons too! And your little commentfics :D I'll never kick you out of my porn-tent, lol.

I really enjoy writing the flavor text :) I wish I could write longer fics, but if all I can get out is a few sentences that mean something to me, then that's good enough :)

Thank you! At the time, I was trying to fit the guys into my current style, but once I started drawing them for real it's been adapting to them, or to real people in general? But they're still stylized, I don't know if I'll ever be a realistic artist. Is ok, this way's fun :)

[dolnmoon.livejournal.com]

I feel honored that I have a place in your porn tent..

I love how people stylize the boys, makes them more their own creation, less realistic because lets face it, fandom is all about the fans headcanon and how they see the characters. Its nice to see someone who can draw them identical but its amazing to see art where someone takes them uses their likeness and makes them their very own, gives them a life inside of fandom's canon.

You my very special dear heart, make them wonderful. Amazing..

Now don't go getting a swelled head, I don't want to have to carry pins with me to bring you back down when you start to float away. lol ;)

[sammichgirl]

<3<3<3 with the plaid...and wow, you've always had Sammy's hair down pat. :) That man on his knees, *flushes*, and OMGosh, how adorable are the ways his toes come together in a point?

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I've been in love with Sammy's hair since the very beginning <3 I love the kneeling form--thighs and feet and toes all look different. I love the feet the best; the curl up and look so vulnerable :)

Thank you!

[vyperdd.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love this piece. It's so beautiful and touching.

It also totally fits a scene I'm writing at the moment, even down to Dean being in boxers while Sam is still fully dressed. Would you mind if I link to it and credit you with inspiration as it's really made what I'm trying to describe come alive in my mind.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

Oh sure, feel free! If you want to crop it or something and use it in your post, that's fine too :) Do whatever you want. And the fic sounds great!

[fishpatrol]

I love the glow of the light on Dean's skin and the curls of Sam's hair! <333

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I loved how wavy Sam's hair was at the beginning, so cute.

[helena-s-renn.livejournal.com]

Oh, guh! And it's already been said, but of course Sam's been in love with Dean over a life-long blur of hotel rooms. Need I mention Playthings again? Kid needed to do *that* when he wasn't drunk.

There is Something here that speaks to their origins. Whether or not it's Sam's first move, you can see it all new and raw between them. In the style you were using they could have been anywhere from teens to 30's. What I love so much is Dean's leg curved around Sam's body, how he's just on the verge of arching up/forward and... Sam's just need you right NOW love you oh god please Dean evident in his posture. The use of light is wonderful too. It's harsh yellow-white, like a crappy motel(!), it falls in a broad swath over Sam's back, his hair, the soles of his feet; and in just little slivers upon Dean. And: boxers, covered junk, treasure trail, hint of stubble, Sam!jeans, those innocent, upturned feet... Mmph! Dean (Ackles) really does sit like that all the time and it's...

Thanks for posting this. Yes, your style's changed for these two, probably prompted in part by all your pushy-bottom fangirls, haha, but this is still just as touching and right and 'them'.

[dont-hate-me01.livejournal.com]

LOL! Love it.

[denig37]

You're a bad person and I hate you!
Seriously, UNGH!
This NEEDS a fic too! Pleasepleaseplease! *whimpers*

[deezy-y.livejournal.com]

Sexy and downright sweet; not surprising that your first foray into wincest is just as awesome as everything since. Kudos! Love the winsocks btw. :D

[deadflowers5.livejournal.com]

This is so lovely!
Sam is always wearing his heart on his sleeve.

[fromyourashes.livejournal.com]

This is just so very beautiful.