And finally here’s Bucky from Switchblade Knife series.
Because I didn’t have the bandwidth to upload a decent size picture for a couple of days I was able to notice and fix a few things. He no longer has clown shoes (the one on the left bumped right up at the toe) and he actually has thighs (his legs were waaaay too skinny) and he has eye make up. I always meant to give him eye make up. I like it and also in The Winter Soldier he has the grease paint thing. Anyway I am reasonably pleased with this. I wanted him in braces/suspenders and the singlet/vest/I don’t know what it’s called in the US he’s wearing is a tribute to Bucky in Man Out Of Time. His belt buckle is Sargent stripes. He mostly wears black, white, silver and shades of grey. Steve keeps buying him stuff in colours from Good Will but he wont wear most of it. He will wear the rainbow braces/suspenders to pride and he’s quite fond of the blue pea coat. He also has a leather jacket that I’ll get around to drawing at some point.
I wasn’t sure until I’d drawn this if I was going to colour his left arm silver but I like the tattoo being just the lines and the red star. The tat on the inside of his right arm is a fancy ‘S’. Steve has an ornate B tattooed on his chest, intertwined with the scar from his heart surgery.
Tag: kath-ballantyne
Switchblade Knife
I’ve been trying to sort out what to call the series I’ve been drawing. Haven’t been able to figure anything out and I’m fed up of calling it the punk Steve series as that doesn’t work with all the other pictures I’m drawing that aren’t Steve.
Finished the Steve/Bucky picture today. Going to take a break before working on the Peggy, Sam and Natasha pictures as I’ve got loads of Xmas crafting and prep to do.
While painting I’ve been listening to a lot of Green Day and some Sex Pistols and a bunch of random stuff that’s nowhere near punk. I would have listed to The Living End but I don’t have it on my computer right now. Not even sure if it’s on the external drives, I think we still have the CDs. I have White Noise on the external drive but I wanted older stuff.
When I’m stuck for titles I mainly just use song lyrics and these lines from Mother Mary by Foxboro Hot Tubs (basically Green Day) seemed to work.“Do you want to elope tonight
Getting lost in the shadows
All dressed up like a switchblade knife
Let’s hang in love from the gallows”
So I’m going with ‘(All Dressed Up Like a) Switchblade Knife’ for the series name. Probably will just write Switchblade Knife series most of the time.
2nd Steve picture in this series. You can see his shield tattoo in this one and I added the wings from his helmet. The dog tags are his father’s. Bucky sometimes teases him about his big boots and big hair trying to make him seem taller but it must work because Bucky often forgets Steve’s not 10ft tall unless he’s curled up around broken ribs or something.
Fandom: Modern, Non-powered AU of MCU
Characters/Pairings: Pre Serum Steve Rogers
Rating: G
Content: Punk skinny Steve
Artist’s Notes: Pose very much inspired by this awesome Supernatural cosplay. I’ve been wanting to draw fighty, bitey, righteous skinny Steve for a while. I know there are quite a few punk versions of the guys out there but I still couldn’t help trying my own. I have a few more art works to do in this series. I’ve got a punk/rockabilly Bucky drawn and started on another and plans for Peggy, Natasha and Sam too. Oh and a couple picture of Steve and Bucky. I really wish I could write. Or draw story comics. I want to know more about these guys. Steve goes to protests and ends up in fights with counter protestors or just guys on the street who are shit to women or who use the word gay as an insult. He’s got a complicated relationship with pain.I tried to fit in hints of his Cap uniform. I really want his boots though.
Title: Make Me
Fandom: Modern, Non-powered AU of MCU
Characters/Pairings: Pre Serum Steve Rogers
Rating: G
Content: Punk skinny Steve
Artist’s Notes: Pose very much inspired by this awesome Supernatural cosplay. I’ve been wanting to draw fighty, bitey, righteous skinny Steve for a while. I know there are quite a few punk versions of the guys out there but I still couldn’t help trying my own. I have a few more art works to do in this series. I’ve got another Steve picture done and plans for a punk/rockabilly Bucky and a Peggy and Sam too. Oh and a couple picture of Steve and Bucky. I really wish I could write. Or draw story comics. I want to know more about these guys. Steve goes to protests and ends up in fights with counter protestors or just guys on the street who are shit to women or who use the word gay as an insult. He’s got a complicated relationship with pain.I have the pencil sketch for this one and an alternate version that I ended up ditching because I wasn’t happy with the amount of detail I could get. I’ll post them later because the internet isn’t fast enough to upload multiple big pictures. I tried to fit in hints of his Cap uniform. I really want his boots though.
was sketching with a pencil today and accidentally drew punk little Steve. This isn’t that sketch. I then felt the need to digitally draw more punk little Steve and some Punk/rockerbilly Bucky and will probably end up with Peggy and possibly Sam drawn as well. Here’s an in progress shot of the punk Little!Steve for now. More tomorrow.
Yes his hearing aid is bright red, because Fuck You!, that’s why. Just ask him.
Next month is our 14th anniversary. I’m still stupidly in love & our relationship is better than ever. We look after each other & deal with all the health shit life throws at us both & it’s wonderful.
That said, I don’t remember the last time I got laid or made out with my girl. Maybe it’s time for a bottle of wine & some porn
I think maybe we should give some kind of offering to the period fairy so that our cycles aren’t opposite to each other any more. I suspect she only takes blood, but will try to offer her credit card as an alternative.
Wine and porn are always welcome.
Title: Goin’ Dancin’
Fandom: MCU
Characters/Pairings: Steve/Peggy
Rating: NC-17
Content: nudity and sexArtist’s Notes: Managed to end up with a Peggy that looked more like Dita Von Teese than Hayley Atwell but you get the idea. Someday I will get around to the Peggy/Pre-Serum Steve you-may-die-in-a-science-experiment-so-this-may-be-your-last-chance-sex
Ruth and I signed up for Marvel Big Bang and decided to write and art a story about Bruce. I have many, many Bruce feelings. Do read the fic. I’d love to talk about it.
Story: These Walls Are Paper Thin by iamshadow21 at AO3. No pairing and G rated.
Story summary: When most people think of Bruce Banner and The Hulk, they think of it as an either/or situation and assume that it’s easy to tell who they’re face to face with.
Most people are wrong.
Ruth’s notes: Beta by the amazing and ever-supportive tree00faery.
Fanart by my partner, kath_ballantyne, who was as eager to read this story as I was to write it, and who made so many wonderful works for it from the day I started writing up until yesterday. This is as much her labour of love as mine, so please, if you like the art, click through on a picture or click through to part two of the series to leave her kudos or comments.I wrote this back in June, and I am SO EXCITED to be able to publish it. Five months is a really long time to wait.
This was in no small way influenced by watching Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and seeing how the creators showed the dynamic between Bruce and the Hulk. It’s made clear that it’s not just angry green Bruce – the Hulk is a character in his own right, to the point where they occasionally have conversations. It made me think a lot about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and about Bruce and the Hulk’s journey in it, from The Incredible Hulk through to The Avengers (and his post-credits cameo in IM3), and this story was born.
(Emma’s Note on Ruth’s notes)*[from what I can remember Ruth and I were talking about this idea before we watched Earth’s Mightiest Heros and flailed at seeing Hulk and Bruce portrayed that way. I could be wrong. We talked about this idea and a few others but I’m really glad we went this way. We liked the idea that Hulk was there from long before the Gamma incident. I know trauma split multiples are rather an over done trope and media doesn’t usually handle them very well. I think Ruth did better than that but given the source material is pretty much Jeckl there’s only so much you can do. I struggled a bit trying to come up with a unique way to show this all in art and ended up just using shadows. Not exactly unique but hopefully it gets the idea across. Ruth wrote about the Multiplicity stuff here]*
Art Notes: This was the first time I’ve participated in a Big Bang where I was part of the process from the beginning. Some of these artworks were drawn before anything was written and some were drawn later to illustrate written scenes. It was really interesting to play a part in creating the story as well as just drawing from a fic. I really enjoyed it.
IamShadow21, as always, did a wonderful job of finding the words for this
idea we came up with. Thank you my love. I loved working with you. Your words always make me feel.I’m really excited to get to share this with people finally. The story has been basically finished for 4 months and we’ve been sitting on it, unable to talk to others about it.
Over on AO3 I’ve put in alt text on these for those using screen readers or who have pictures turned off. I think it works though the hover text is just the title rather than the description.
Steve and Bucky pre war.
Not sure what Bucky had to do to get them a room with a bed this big but he managed it.
Photoshop and a reconditioned Graphire4. One day I’ll have a pen that isn’t held together with medical tape again.
These Walls Are Paper Thin (13534 words) by IamShadow21 [AO3]
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Category: Gen
Characters: Bruce Banner, Hulk (Marvel), Tony Stark, Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz, Betty Ross, Thor (Marvel), Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Nick Fury
Additional Tags: Post-Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 Compliant, Thor: The Dark World Compliant, Captain America: The Winter Soldier Compliant, Character Study, Teambuilding, Multiple Personalities, Multiple Selves, Multiplicity/Plurality, Communication, Past Child Abuse, Past Domestic Violence, Past Relationship(s), Gen Work, Canon Compliant, Pre-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Drowning, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD, Social Anxiety, Marvel Universe Big Bang, Marvel Universe Big Bang 2014, Friendship, Team as Family, Team Bonding, SHIELD, Anger, System Management, Coping, Food, Cooking, Pancakes, Meditation, Moving In Together, Injury Recovery, Recovery, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Deaf, Deaf Character, Deaf Clint, Deaf Clint Barton, Hearing aids, Science, Science Bros, Science Boyfriends, Domestic Avengers, Avengers Tower, Skype, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Fanart
Summary: When most people think of Bruce Banner and The Hulk, they think of it as an either/or situation and assume that it’s easy to tell who they’re face to face with.
Most people are wrong.
Hey guys! My Marvel Bang fic that I wrote in June is FINALLY live! Go read it, look at my baby’s gorgeous art, and if you like it, please comment or kudos!
These Walls Are Paper Thin (13534 words) by IamShadow21 [AO3]
knitting in the dark 