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Genre/Fandom: Drawble / DCU, SGA, HP, Terminator, original art
Characters/Pairings: a Terminator, Severus Snape, Deathstroke, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, an iguana, a kangaroo
Media: pencil
Notes/comments: Drawbles I did based on prompts.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a diricawl
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: This is the third in my magical creatures series, a diricawl encyclopedia plate this time, showcasing their escape method. The crosshatching in this took me forever. Okay, a couple of hours, but it felt like forever. Also, after I had already drawn that predator cat, it occurred to me that HP canon says they come from Mauritius, so there wouldn’t have been any cats. Oops. OTOH maybe some magical cat preyed on them, I mean, why would they have developed the vanishing thing otherwise? Without enemies they would really been like the dodo I think. Anyway: *handwave*
diricawl — screen resolution (ca. 316k)
diricawl, detail — high resolution (ca. 300k)
diricawl, detail — high resolution (ca. 112k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a red cap
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: Some time ago I drew a bowtruckle supposed to look like an excerpt from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. I wanted to do more in this style and did a poll which creature I ought to draw next. The red cap got two votes, all others either zero or one (it wasn’t a popular poll, heh), so here it is. Admittedly my turn around time isn’t exactly fast. I also have to give credit to Amelia Eve for suggesting a title for this imaginary work, because I couldn’t come up with anything, and she commented with several options in the bowtruckle post.
red cap — screen resolution (ca. 260k)
red cap, detail — high resolution (ca. 196k)
Genre/Fandom: Drawble / various
Characters/Pairings: rats, dragons, Iron Man, Severus Snape, the Impala, …
Media: pencil sketches
Notes/comments: Drawbles I did for various people on request in my LJ. These were either based on prompts or on interests I picked from their profile pages.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a bowtruckle
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: While the drawing is finished, I hope there’ll be better text eventually that would make it seem more like an excerpt from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. For now I’ve just added some text labeling it like a plate in an encyclopedia would be, so you have to imagine the suitable text going with it. Its style is supposed to reminiscent of early encyclopedias, like Diderot’s from the 18th century with copperplate engravings of observed plants and animals. My attempt at this isn’t very convincing because this is the first time I’ve done a b/w picture in ink with crosshatching since I think 9th? grade when we learned the technique in school, but considering that it is not so bad. I may do more HP beasts in this style eventually as part of this imaginary book too, but I haven’t decided which yet.
bowtruckle — screen resolution (ca. 272k)
bowtruckle, detail — high resolution (ca. 200k)
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.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Ginny Weasley
Media: pencil drawing, colored in GIMP
Notes: When I asked for character/emotion prompts to practice expressions, Dragovianknight asked for “Ginny Weasley, shocked.” The irises aren’t quite equal in size, which obviously looks weird, but by the time I actually noticed that, I was at a stage in the coloring already where I would have had to redo a lot of stuff *headdesk*, so considering that this is more a sketch than an elaborate drawing I decided to be lazy and just live with it. Also, I’ve never drawn Ginny, but I still hope it looks both like her and shocked.
shocked Giny Weasley, initial pencils — screen resolution (ca. 40k)
shocked Giny Weasley, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 42k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape
Media: pencil, GIMP
Notes: This is an illustration for the epilogue of Beth’s Snape/Kingsley story In From the Cold. Belatedly I noticed that I actually misread the sentence and it was Kingsley wearing that parrot shirt… *facepalm* Well, I really like the idea of Snape in that outfit anyway. Also I’m aware both shadows and perspective don’t hold up if you check them for their proper technical construction, I just hope it’s not too cringeworthy for the casual viewer.
illustration for Beth’s In From the Cold, initial pencil drawing — screen resolution (ca. 144k)
illustration for Beth’s In From the Cold, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 175k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Harry (in platypus form), Voldemort
Media: Pencil, GIMP
Notes: Another one for Nimori’s Animagus Challenge, this time Platypus!Harry fighting Voldemort. The scenario I imagined for this one was something along the lines that Harry got captured, lost his wand and now makes a desperate attempt to escape by surprising Voldie with his animagus form and tries to incapacitate him with the venom to get away, that’s why he’s trying to kick him…
Platypus!Harry fighting Voldemort, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 106k)
Platypus!Harry fighting Voldemort, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 77k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Harry (in platypus form)
Media: Pencil, GIMP
Notes: This is art for Nimori’s Animagus Challenge, for which I claimed Harry as a platypus animagus.
Platypus!Harry, initial pencil drawing — screen resolution (ca. 84k)
Platypus!Harry, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 116k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Media: pencil
Notes: Beth linked to the first Porkish Pixies challenge in her LJ, and though I hadn’t joined the parody community when it was created, I was curious and followed the link. So I read that, and promptly felt compelled to do a HP doodle fitting with one of her example scenarios. Keep in mind that before this I have never done HP art, nor felt any real desire to do so. I suspect some sort of far distance electronic compulsion spell, it is the only explanation.
Inflated!Snape drawble, pencil — screen resolution (ca. 44k)
