The last of this summer's art, finally.

Title: Mummy
Rating: G
Medium: Ink
Notes: The boy from episodes 9 & 10 (series 1) of Doctor Who, The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.

( July 2 )

Title: Fjords
Rating: G
Medium: Crayon
Notes: Points to anyone who spots why this counts as Doctor Who art!

( July 3 )

Character: Ace from Havemercy
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, watercolour
Notes: This started out as Rook, but rereading bits of the book I realised I'd got his hair entirely wrong, so Ace it is.

( July 23 )

Character: Batman
Rating: G
Medium: Crayon
Notes: A teeny rainbow Batman.

( June 27 )

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 )

Title: Traveller
Characters: Lily from epistolatory (belongs to Julie riddled)
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, watercolour
Notes: I started this at the beginning of the month when Julie was over, but then dawdled about finishing it since I'm still harbouring delusions about being able to colour stuff digitally. I need a tablet! This is my feeble attempt at steampunk, btw.

( June 22 )

Title: Valerie & Jack
Rating: G
Medium: Pencil, photoshop
Notes: Valerie & Jack are two trapeze artists, from my brainchild Tricks. I've just started re-reading it for the first time since the insanity of NaNoWriMo, and am seriously considering editing this one -- I just have to obsessively create actual backstories for all of the characters first.

( June 25 )

Title: Mimi
Rating: G
Medium: Coloured pencil
Notes: Also from Tricks; Mimi runs the circus. The anatomy is crazy off here, this is just me trying to amuse myself while working at a daycare. I've drawn more in the last five days than for the past few months now, not all of it great, but it's something!

( June 26 )

Title: Yggdrasil
Rating: G
Medium: Crayons
Notes: Working at a Steiner daycare has brought back all of my grade five Norse mythology classes. This is the world tree, or at least the bits of it that my hazy memory could recall. I can spoil the fourth-graders for what they'll learn next year and insert a bunch of made-up facts at the same time, all while distracting them from the fact that they've been watching somebody draw for the last two hours!

( June 26 )

Title: Odin
Rating: G
Medium: Ballpoint pen
Notes: Same as above, except this is the "god boss" as I eloquently put it to the kids.

( June 26 )

Title: Batman & Joker
Rating: G
Medium: Crayons, ballpoint pen for contour (or whatever it's called)
Notes: Pretty self-explanatory. Yes, I just read Arkham Asylum and have fallen even more deeply in love with Dave McKean than before, which shouldn't really be possible. These are actually pretty teeny, and more an exercise in technique than actual art.

( June 26 )

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 )

Title: Lyra's Oxford
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, watercolour
Notes: I've had this paragraph written down for years, since I first read it and wanted to draw it but, uh, couldn't draw. Not sure I managed it now, either.


( 60 minutes )

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.

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. )

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. )

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. )

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 )

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. )

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. )

Title: Aurors
Characters: Harry, Draco
Rating: G
Medium: Ink, Photoshop
Comments/criticism: Is welcome.
Notes: For lusiology through lameos_maximus. Thanks to massicot 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?' )

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... )

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.

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. )

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?' )

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. )

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. )

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. )