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Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/Kingsley Shacklebolt
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a tiny bit of white conté chalk
Notes: I’ve already illustrated the epilogue of this story a while back, but always wanted to draw this Snape/Shacklebolt scene in the alley. Now, with barely two years delay, I got around to it. The relevant bit from Beth’s In From the Cold is: “Severus loosened his grip on Kingsley’s shoulders and slid his hands down Kingsley’s arms. He stopped when he reached the ends of Kingsley’s sleeves, encircled Kingsley’s strong-boned wrists with his fingers, then pulled Kingsley’s arms up over his head. Severus transferred his hold of Kingsley’s right wrist so that both of Kingsley’s hands were pinned against the brick wall by one of his own, then Severus slowly lowered his other hand until it came to rest on the top of Kingsley’s head.
Severus ghosted his long, sensitive fingers over Kingsley’s scalp, surprised by each tiny bump and dip in what seemed perfectly smooth from a distance. He slid his hand down along the side of Kingsley’s head, and he could feel Kingsley lean into his palm while Severus traced along the edge of Kingsley’s ear with his thumb, clicking his thumbnail softly against the small silver hoop that hung from the lobe. Severus leaned in and took the earring in his mouth, turning the hoop slowly with his tongue.”
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, initial pencil drawing — screen resolution (ca. 308k)
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, inks — screen resolution (ca. 304k)
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 320k)
illustration of the Snape/Shacklebolt alley scene, detail — high resolution (ca. 222k)
I’ve also written some commentary on drawing this picture with scans and photos of the inbetween stages.
Genre/Fandom: Temeraire Series
Characters/Pairings: Iskierka
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a bit of white conté chalk
Notes/comments: This illustrates Iskierka’s hatching. I hope she looks enough like a baby while still fitting the description that they look just like smaller versions of the big ones. But making the head long and lean like I normally do for dragons to make them look ferocious didn’t work for me for a baby dragon. The coloring didn’t turn out quite like I intended, and for some reason my scanner not only produced a weird stripe artifact that I couldn’t get rid of (it is not that intrusive, but still), it also reproduced the colors less bright than in the actual picture.
Iskierka’s hatching, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 184k).
Iskierka’s hatching, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 172k)
Iskierka’s hatching, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 172k)
Iskierka’s hatching, detail of the head — high resolution (ca. 136k)
I’ve also written some commentary on drawing this picture with scans and photos of the inbetween stages.
Genre/Fandom: original fantasy
Characters/Pairings: some random dragon
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint, a bit of color pencil
dragon drawing, initial pencils — screen resolution (ca. 200k)
dragon drawing, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 200k)
dragon drawing, ink and acrylics — screen resolution (ca. 230k)
detail of the head — high resolution (ca. 224k)
Notes/comments: I made some longer notes on my process, because this is the first time I used acrylics to color a drawing. Read the rest of this entry »
Genre/Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Characters/Pairings: Bob
Media: pencil drawing, then inked, colored and various digital effects/textures added with Wacom tablet and GIMP
Notes/comments: I based it on a description from chapter six of Proven Guilty: “Other books, notebooks, envelopes, paper bags, pencils, and apparently random objects of many kinds crowd each other for space on the shelves–all except for one plain, homemade wooden shelf, which held only candles at either end, four romance novels, a Victoria’s Secret catalog, and a bleached human skull.” I used an actual Victoria’s Secret catalog cover to base my drawing of that catalog on and referenced bits from a couple of other photos via a google image search but only the catalog cover is directly traced as a whole, though the skull is close to this skull image. Oh and the Harlequin romance titles are real too, though I can’t actually remember whether I matched the right authors with their titles as I created the book spines.
Bob, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 168k)
Bob, finished image — high resolution (ca. 1325k)
I’ve also written some commentary on drawing this picture.
