#dcrb 2023

[shedarart]

I was so glad to participate in DCRB with a brilliant author, thank U dear for your work and your support! Please follow the link and read the sweet and nice, very warm fanfiction made by my partner: paceprompting https://archiveofourown.org/works/46236691/chapters/116403961

[sailorsallyart]

I had so much fun participating in @deancasreversebang this year! Thank you @tsujiharu for writing a wonderful story to accompany the art above! 💛 If you like domestic Destiel, make sure to give 'Today and Every Day' a read! (I'm posting this a lil ahead of time so the link might not be available yet but you can always like/reblog for later 😊)

[mangonatural]

I drew this for the 2023 DCRB and got to work with the absolutely wonderful haus_seeblick (@haus-seeblick) who wrote the very awesome and VERY emotionally fulfilling fic With This Ring (I Act The Part). It's an absolute blast of a fic! Please give it a read!

[Promo Post] | (Extra art below ↓)

[hawkland]

Art Masterpost: King of the Empty  Story by Ryuosen  Art by @hawkland/sidewinder

The third and final of my 2023 @deancasreversebang collaborations is here for me to share today! This one is for an art piece I’d been planning out and working on for ages, and I’ve been sitting on it eagerly for over three months now. I’m super-excited to finally be able to share it with everyone!

The idea of Cas becoming the new ruler/embodiment of the Empty is something I’ve been obsessed with for a long time. I have a lot of thoughts about it—and Death!Dean, too, one of my other favorite post-S15 possibilities. But I wanted to see what another writer would do with the concept (as I was struggling with my own story ideas) so I told myself, “Do the art, make it happen.” And here we are! Thank you so much to Ryuosen for claiming my art and for writing such a wonderful story to go with it!  Please go read it here. A few notes on the art:

As usual for me this was done in watercolor, on heavy/cold press paper to get the texture I love so much.

My concept for Dean’s scythe was that I wanted something rough-hewn, reminiscent of both his purgatory blade and the First Blade. Both the scythe and his ring features a blue stone/energy the same color as grace (and Cas’s eyes here). The main piece was really difficult to photograph well with all that dark background and using some translucent/interference paint for the “empty tentacles”, and also because it is just so big (24″ x 18″). But I hope these pictures do it the best justice I can manage (they’re taken in two different lighting situations.)  If you’re coming to MomentoCon this summer in Pittsburgh, you’ll be able to see the original (and many of my others) in person, as I’ll have a dealer’s table there in the exhibition hall.

[mishoru]

Another @deancasreversebang :D Funfunfun! Read the Fic the wondeful @nickelkeep wrote here

[celestialminion]

It's posting day for the DCRB! I was lucky enough this year to be paired with the amazingly patient and talented stuffy_j, who wrote Doing Life With Me from the first piece! Please go check it out if you love hopelessly-in-love Dean like I do 💖

[squirrelofcelestialintent]

I am so stoked to post my art for my second DCRB this year!

‘Sex Worker Dean Winchester’ and ‘Selectively Mute Dean Winchester’ live in my head rent-free. That was basically my whole prompt and @9x20 completely knocked it out of the park. She was a fantastic partner, and she wrote an amazing fic that I will read again and again and again. Please read Talk Pretty Fly and show her some love! 💙💚💙💚

I’ve always been a writer, and this was my first ever attempt at fan art and my first time doing any kind of art since high school. It’s pretty simple, just photo manips that are heavily filtered, but I had so much fun making it that I’ve been learning to do digital illustration from scratch ever since. But I’m really proud of how it turned out and even more proud of the fic that came from it, I hope you enjoy!

[impmakesart]

A WIN. Written by @rathskitten and part of the Dean/Cas Reverse Bang 2023! Listen to what inspired this: Beer & NyQuil (Hold it together) and It’s Not Interesting, by Spanish Love Songs.

Read the fic here [x]

[seidenapfel]

DCRB 2023: Forged in Thunder

Story by flyingkafka67 ( @anathewierdo ) Art by seidenapfel ( @seidenapfel )

This year’s @deancasreversebang was the first bang that I joined as an artist. I submitted the piece with the dragon for claims. Sadly, my original author had to drop out. Ana jumped in as a pinch-hitter and wrote a beautiful story.

I didn’t provide an actual prompt. All I got was the image of Dean and Cas flying on a dragon as I tried not to make up a story myself, in case I didn’t want to submit the art in the end.

Fic on AO3 | Art on AO3

[ephemerastardust]

[DCRB2023] The Prince, The Commander, and the Firebird

Link to fic | Author's AO3 | Author's Twitter

Yay my second piece for DCRB! I am so lucky to be paired with @thesilverqueenlady :D Thank you for the sweet fic!

- Freedom -

I have always wanted to draw some Fantasy AU!DeanCas! I had a dragon!Cas almost finished but decided at the last minute to switch to a bird-riding one :D wanted to draw Dean hiding in Cas' arms lol but turned out they were just riding happily together hhhh Dean is safe and happy as long as he is flying with Cas 💕

Sorry for the clumsy bird body I know nothing about bird anatomy😭 and I still do not have any designs for their outfit lol but I decide to just let them be hehe!

- To my author, fellow artists, and mods -

I want to say thank you to my author @thesilverqueenlady! The fic expands the plot and the dynamic of their relationship from the scene so sweetly. And it makes me love the birdy more - I sincerely didn't put too much thought into it when I drew the pic, just experimented with colors and shapes which I never used before, but the fic gives her a name and makes her come to life! I should not spoil more please go read it!

Also, I am so grateful to be in the same bang with so many talented artists - the way I was entranced by the art gallery and clicked every single piece and read through the prompts - it was 😭

I also want to say thank you to all mods who run this round of bang - efficient, organized, and helpful as always! Thank you for the effort and time you put in to run such an amazing bang!

[zybynarx]

TA-DA!! My artwork done for this year's DeanCas Reverse Bang!

Check out the story here!

So basically, the drawing inspiration came from me thinking to myself one day: "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a J. Jonah Jameson type character who is trying to slander the local superhero because they actually had a crush on the stupid sexy hero and they kinda hated it?" Then SchmendricktheMagician expanded further with this idea and made a freaking fantastic story out of it! Seriously I instantly fell in love with their writing reading just the first few words, and it totally reads like a superhero story! I'm so in love and grateful to have gotten paired up with them! 🥰

(P.S. I drew that coffee stain ring on the banner and am heckin' proud of it)

[danicadust]

This is my piece for 2023 DCRB! It was definitely a learning curve getting into digital art, but I had a blast! I also had the absolute privilege and pleasure to work with @sunshine-zenith​ (SundayZenith on Ao3) who wrote the amazing fic, Flight Back to You. Check it out [here]!

A big shoutout and thank you to the mods for being absolute legends! @deancasreversebang​

[mangonatural]

This is a piece I did for the 2023 DCRB! I got to work with the very wonderful foldingcranes who wrote the absolutely adorable fic Finding My Way To You! Please check it out! It's so cute 🥺

[Promo Post] | (Extra art below ↓)

[hawkland]

Art masterpost: the bridge Story by @tessetc​ Art by @hawkland/sidewinder As @deancasreversebang season continues, it’s time to share my second collaboration for this year! The piece I submitted for claims was the final one above, of Dean driving through the dark, lit up in a blue glow from the pendant hanging from his rear-view mirror. Tess came up with a twisty, mind-bendy story to bring it to life and inspired me to do these other pieces...how they all fit together, you’ll have to read the story to find out!

I really tried to go for an ominous, oppressive feeling with these paintings (and I only wish I was able to fully capture the colors in photographs vs. the original works...metallic and color-shifting watercolors are a real challenge). Tess was an amazing partner to work with who really made this a fun collaboration, start to finish, so please check out the fic and show it some love!

Read “the bridge” at AO3.

[mishoru]

@deancasreversebang art I did in December :D @casslesschaps wrote this fic about it

very fun very fun thank you @casslesschaps for indulging in my weird little circus moment!

[girlinthemirrorbluenight-library]

My work for this year's @deancasreversebang inspired by the song Uptown Girl by Billy Joel. The banner is inspired by the cover for the single and the original art is inspired by the music video. Check out the awesome accompanying fic by Writer_Geekgirl here!

[Image ID: Yellow banner with the title "Uptown Boy" in the center of a digital drawing of two feet, a scuffed work boot on the left and a leather dress shoe on the right. Underneath says "Art by girlinthemirrorbluenight and Story by Writer_Geekgirl". To the left of the text is the Dean/Cas Reverse Bang logo /.End ID]

[Image ID: Digital drawing with cel shading of Dean and Castiel in a mechanic shop. They are standing in front of a 1950s Rolls Royce. In the background are various tools and posters and a red motorcycle. Dean is wearing a mechanic's uniform with an embroidered name tag and has messy hair in a 1980s style. Cas is wearing a broad-shouldered trench coat with a tall collar over a double breasted suit with a blue patterned tie. His hair is slicked back and he is clean shaven. /.End ID]