Of This and Other Worlds

...because seviet's drawings are gorgeous and I love them. But oh my word, this is the most amazing picture of Harry and Ginny I've ever seen. Not only because it's beautifully done in its own right, but because it comes so close to my idea of how they might, or should, look post-canon. friede, how do you do that?

This took me forever, but I'm pretty pleased with it now. Hopefully as I get more adept at using Photoshop Elements and my new graphics tablet, future drawings will be a little less time-consuming. But anyway, here it is...

"In The Forest" (D&Lverse illustration, Snape/Maud)

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And now I have to run like crazy, because I'm still in my jammies and we have to leave the house by 8 a.m....

Courtesy of Em:

A beautiful portrait of Maud, taken from a larger pic of Maud and Snape together which I also like very much (especially the trippy look on Snape's face -- I mean, clearly that Hair Thing has become a serious addiction).

Then there's my secondary OC's, Jennet Peachtree and the irrepressible Imogen Crump.

And finally, appropriately enough considering my previous post, it's the Snapelets. I never thought of giving Margot this particular hairstyle, but now that I've seen it... it's awfully tempting.

Check out more by the same artist -- if you're into Tonks/Remus, for instance, it's a positive feast.

And just when I thought my week couldn't get any better, I got an e-mail alerting me to a new gallery of D&L illustrations by sannalim:

Trilogy cover

The Potions Master's Apprentice cover

Personal Risks cover

If We Survive cover

aaand it's the Snapelets all over again! Snape Family Portrait

Seriously, I am overwhelmed. Thank you both very, very much. Wow!

This seems to have been a day for finding wonderful pieces of online art.

First, this amusing entry by ursulav, presenting her new digital illustration Mortimer was a very bad egg. Come on, what could be better than a goth version of Humpty Dumpty?

Then I noticed that somebody else had linked to a rather lovely drawing of the Trio, movie-style (by someone whose art I had never seen before, possibly because she seems to favour H/Hr -- but, you know, even those are pretty enough I almost didn't mind looking at them).

And finally, I just got an e-mail from Teri, telling me that a friend of a friend had done a piece of AU fan art for D&L. Well, as you can imagine, I was blown away by that as well... so here it is, "Meeting Maud". I love Maud's robes, and her hair, and the length of her nose, though how she persuaded Snape to go to a formal ball, I cannot imagine. :)

There are so many good artists out there! And they all know how to use Photoshop a great deal better than I do! Of course, I suspect they also have graphic tablets, which is an investment I've yet to make...

And in response to a couple of appalled comments on my previous post, I never suggested Rowan Atkinson should play Snape. I just said that in this particular pic, Rowan Atkinson's hair looked like I think Snape's would if he took proper care of it. Not the same thing. :)

On the other hand, look at the sketch of Snape drawn by J.K. Rowling herself, and tell me that her version doesn't look a lot more like Atkinson than he does like Alan Rickman...?!

And thanks to meril for telling me about the wonders of Oekaki. I just know I'm going to be playing with this thing every chance I get. This pic's pretty rough because I was just learning to use the tools, but here it is anyway...

My first Oekaki drawing.

Why, oh why, does nobody seem to have a print of Vermeer's gorgeous painting The Geographer for sale? For years I've coveted a matched set of Geographer and Astronomer prints, but all I can ever find is The Astronomer. Last night I checked a whole bunch of poster and print shops on the web -- no help at all.

Feh.