kath-ballantyne:

kath-ballantyne-art:

Steve and Bucky together

Part 5 of Switchblade Knife. Probably the last update of this universe until after Christmas now as I’ve not got any more drawn and ready to go. I may post some of the sketches and in progress stuff but can’t work on the Peggy, Sam and Natasha designs until I’ve got everything else done.

Other artworks in the Switchblade Knife AU series:

Punk Skinny!Steve 1

Punk Skinny!Steve 2

Bucky 1

Bucky 2

My art,

kath-ballantyne-art:

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.

Switchblade Knife

kath-ballantyne:

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.