the blaze lasted a few hours.

10 December 2008 @ 07:59 pm

Title: Early Birds
Characters: Oliver, Fred, George, Harry, Katie
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, watercolour
Notes: My art for the Harry Potter Art Project. I was assigned book 2, chapter 7, so I picked the scene where Oliver gets the Gryffindor team up at the crack of dawn only to rave at them (with moving charts) for hours. I have a time-lapse video of the entire watercolouring bit, but unfortunately I lost iMovie in a harddrive crash so I can't export it at the moment. Maybe it's just as well, I'm probably the only one fascinated by watching myself paint 8)

( September 28 )

Tags: character: fred, character: george, character: harry, character: katie, character: oliver, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart

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18 June 2008 @ 10:35 pm

ART: two fanart, one original and my sketchbook cover

Title: Doorway
Characters: Death (The Sandman)
Rating: G
Medium: Ballpoint pen, pencil
Notes: Ugh anatomy.

( June 1 )

Title: Sweet Transvestite
Rating: G
Medium: Ink & nib pen, watercolour
Notes: I lovelovelove my new nib pen, even though it makes crazy squeaky noises like it's being tortured sometimes. I might be doin it rong. But the varying line weight, oh, it is pretty. Strictly speaking this is fanart for a really obscure Norwegian novel, but I'll let it slide as original for now.

( June 15 )

Title: Pansy Drew
Characters: Pansy (Harry Potter)
Prompt: 04. Found It
Rating: G
Medium: Ink & nib pen, photoshop
Notes: My sincerest apologies for the corny title, I couldn't help it. This is for

tbranch, who recently walked through a plate glass window. D:

( June 17 )

And finally, not really art, but here's the ( cover of my current sketchbook )

Tags: character: death, character: original, character: pansy parkinson, class: gen, fandom: gaiman, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart, type: original art

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21 October 2006 @ 12:46 am

ART: sketch dump

I haven't been drawing anything proper lately, other than paintings for art class, so these are from my sketchbook. Vaguely actual-size & in chronological order. Con-crit is welcome, as always, though these are really a mess.

( 2 Harry Potter, 2 Coraline, 2 original. )

Conclusion:
1. I need to learn how to draw faster.
2. I need to learn how to draw actual expressions.

Tags: character: coraline, character: hermione granger, character: original, character: other mother, character: real people, class: gen, class: het, fandom: gaiman, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart, type: original art

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16 September 2006 @ 01:27 pm

ART: Sleepyhead

Title: Sleepyhead
Characters: Remus, Tonks
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: Yes, please.
Notes: For

bangcollision through the

hp_art_xchange (one of her requested pairings was Remus/Tonks). I couldn't resist adding tea and early-morning hair. Much ♥ to

glockgal at

artbeta!

( Just pretend they're looking at their multicoloured werepups. )

Tags: character: nymphadora tonks, character: remus lupin, class: het, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart

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17 August 2006 @ 10:13 pm

ART: Inevitability

Title: Inevitability
Characters: Hermione, Ron
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: Yes, please.
Notes: For Ingeborg

gedrekslegej, who is so awesome I'll gladly brave the shipping wars for her. ♥

( It's only a matter of time. )

Tags: character: hermione granger, character: ron weasley, class: het, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart

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17 August 2006 @ 08:49 pm

ART: Curl / ART: In Idleness

Title: Curl
Characters: Narcissa
Prompt: 50. Smoke [Artist's Choice]
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, Photoshop, brushes from here
Comments/criticism: Yes, please.
Notes: Inspired by the 1940s-ish style of women drawn for the New Yorker. And no, that isn't some crazy wizard crack she's smoking, it's a wand holder. :>

( It looks like a cigarette holder, but... )

Title: In Idleness
Characters: Pansy
Prompt: 06. What Now?
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, Photoshop
Comments/criticism: Yes, please.
Notes: An older Pansy, drawn in (an imitation of) the style of Lan Medina in Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile. Both colour and grayscale because I couldn't make up my mind which one looked best.

( Love-in-idleness, n. One of many old names for the pansy, a cultivated garden flower. )

Tags: character: narcissa malfoy, character: pansy parkinson, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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09 August 2006 @ 02:02 am

ART: Black Sisters

Title: Black Sisters
Characters: Bellatrix, Andromeda, Narcissa
Prompt: 19. When I Was Young
Rating: G
Medium: Artist pens, darkened in Photoshop
Comments/criticism: Yes, please.
Notes: A drawing to celebrate this and this; fifty friend-ofs on this journal (the fifty-first is me and doesn't count!), and two thousand visitors to my website since it started. (Of course, I worked in a

fanart50 prompt, too.)

( :D )

Tags: character: andromeda tonks, character: bellatrix lestrange, character: narcissa malfoy, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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07 August 2006 @ 05:28 pm

ART: Façade

Title: Façade
Characters: Bellatrix
Prompt: 49. Before [Artist's Choice]
Rating: G
Medium: Artist pens, darkened in Photoshop
Comments/criticism: Yes, please.
Notes: Another quick(ish) drawing, very much inspired by Julie Hill (these curls wither and die in comparison to hers, of course). IMO, Bellatrix wasn't always quite as batshit; there must have been some years where she at least occasionally would conceal her particular career choice.

( She hadn't always looked evil. )

Tags: character: bellatrix lestrange, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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07 August 2006 @ 12:20 am

ART: Disdain

Title: Disdain
Characters: Narcissa
Prompt: 10. Power
Rating: G
Medium: Pencil
Comments/criticism: Is welcome.
Notes: It's funny; how you can sit down and sketch something in five minutes, and be infinitely more happy with it than a lot of your drawings that took hours. It's happened before, and now it just happened again. Augh! (This one's Narcissa, distinguishable as such only by the look on her face, and barely that.)

( She can only see past the tip of her nose if she's looking down it. )

Tags: character: narcissa malfoy, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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05 August 2006 @ 08:47 pm

ART: Aurors

Title: Aurors
Characters: Harry, Draco
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, Photoshop
Comments/criticism: Is welcome.
Notes: For

lusiology through

lameos_maximus. Thanks to

winkout at

artbeta for help with my Issues with anatomy! The prompt/request is below; one look at the rating will tell you which stage in their relationship I chose (snark & UST rather than getting it on), haha. Hopefully you'll all be able to look beyond the complete lack of porn and still enjoy it 8)

There are close-ups of the notes here and here, if anyone's as much of a dork as I am and wants to see.

Harry is an Auror and a widower (wifey could be killed during the war or as a revenge attack) so he's now married to the job. The case he is working on requires a specialist from the continent in a certain field. Enter Draco (who was smuggled to Europe after the HBP), married but in the process of getting a divorce - not sure from who. The two men need to work together to solve the mystery - would love to see much snark & UST before they finally 'get it on' in some form or other.

( 'Hey, Potter - I've misplaced a stick. Could I borrow the one up your arse?' )

Tags: character: draco malfoy, character: harry potter, class: slash, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart

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26 April 2006 @ 10:09 pm

ART: Or You'll Fall In

Title: Or You'll Fall In
Characters: Regulus, Voldemort
Prompt: 18. Cold
Rating: PG for a recently dead body. Nothing horrific, though.
Medium: Ink, Photoshop, texture from here
Comments/criticism: Please.
Notes: One minute I'm drawing happy pregnant couples, the next I'm drawing dead guys. Er. Watch me procrastinate and flaunt my suddenly-returned Photoshop skills?

( Trot, trot to Boston... )

Tags: character: regulus black, character: voldemort, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: pg, type: fanart

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18 April 2006 @ 11:08 pm

ART: Firstborn

Title: Firstborn
Characters: Narcissa, Lucius
Prompt: 13. Growing
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: Is appreciated.
Notes: A pregnant Narcissa, with Lucius. (It sounds like a box set.) If it weren't for

katecarden and

spoonfuloftears at

artbeta, Lucius would've looked like a girl, so thanks to them. ♥ Also thank you Caroline

leka_moya for getting me reacquainted with cross-hatching. :D

( They were young, once. )

P.S. You'll never guess who I used as a reference for their bodies without clicking this.

Tags: character: lucius malfoy, character: narcissa malfoy, class: het, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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17 April 2006 @ 12:35 am

FIC: History

Title: History
Characters: Rowena Ravenclaw, Salazar Slytherin
Prompt: 01. Beginnings
Rating: G
Words: 406
Comments/criticism: As always, yes please.
Notes: This was the first plotbunny I had when I glanced at the prompt table. Not exactly in-character as far as the time period goes, but it's a start. (And I apologise in advance for the cheesiness of the second-to-last line, ahaha.)

( Founders. )

Tags: character: rowena ravenclaw, character: salazar slytherin, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanfic100, rating: g, type: fanfiction

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16 April 2006 @ 12:10 am

ART: Hogwarts Express

Title: Hogwarts Express
Characters: Draco, Pansy
Prompt: 41. Lucky
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, artist pens, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: Yes please.
Notes: The scene in HBP when Harry is hidden on the luggage rack beneath the Invisibility Cloak. Please excuse my Gryffindorising of the train compartment--I didn't realise it until I scanned the drawing. :3 I'm getting really sick of coloured pencils, but I'm not sure if I can be bothered to learn how to use something else.

( Anyone would have loved to be in her place. )

Tags: character: draco malfoy, character: pansy parkinson, class: het, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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15 April 2006 @ 01:26 am

ART: Please Mum, New Robes?

Title: Please Mum, New Robes?
Characters: Ron, teensy!Harry&Hermione
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: Sure.
Notes: Sillyness done at the cabin in the mountains. Idea very much © Una

choco_tuna, mostly due to a conversation we were having about the robes in HP. How we picture them, the books vs the movies etc.

( 'But,' Una said, 'if they're too small, would they then look like a dress?' )

Tags: character: harry potter, character: hermione granger, character: ron weasley, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart

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06 April 2006 @ 09:46 pm

ART: Mistress Narcissa Malfoy, and Her Son, Master Draco Malfoy

Title: Mistress Narcissa Malfoy, and Her Son, Master Draco Malfoy
Characters: Narcissa, Draco
Prompt: 09. Protection
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, acrylic paint, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: I do know that the anatomy is off, and there are some visible spots where I had to piece together the four scans, but go ahead.
Notes: This was actually done for art class--an adaptation of Boldini's painting of nearly the same name--but I used it for

fanart50 too.

( He reminded her of his father. )

Tags: character: draco malfoy, character: narcissa malfoy, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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27 March 2006 @ 02:44 am

ART: On Days Like This

Title: On Days Like This
Characters: Lily, Sirius, Remus
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, coloured pencils
Comments/criticism: Is welcome.
Notes: The title is from the song Taxi Ride by Tori Amos, which starts with the line "Lily is dancing on the table". This has been a sketch for three months, until I had a desperate need to procrastinate and inked and coloured it. (Please ignore where Remus's arm seems to be going. 8D)

( We've all been pushed too far; I guess on days like this you know who your friends are. )

Tags: character: lily potter, character: remus lupin, character: sirius black, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, rating: g, type: fanart

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16 March 2006 @ 10:11 pm

ART: Vanishing Cabinet

Title: Vanishing Cabinet
Characters: Draco Malfoy
Prompt: 12. Waiting
Rating: G
Medium: Pencil, Photoshop
Comments/criticism: Is welcome.
Notes: Blah blah angsty!Draco letting the Death Eaters into Hogwarts this is clearly me avoiding my homework.

( At one point Draco realised this maybe wasn't such a good idea after all. )

Tags: character: draco malfoy, class: gen, fandom: harry potter, misc: fanart50, rating: g, type: fanart

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16 March 2006 @ 06:24 pm

ART: Colours 1 & 2

Title: Colours 1 & 2
Characters: Cho Chang
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, watercolours
Comments/criticism: Is welcome.
Notes: Art class boredom = experimenting with watercolours. Two versions of the same drawing. (She looks slightly retarded, I know.)