Love of everything infinite and loud.

Title: The Scarlet Wizard
Character: Harry
Rating: G
Medium: photoshop, tablet
Notes: I'm rather proud of this picture, if only because it took much less time to draw than usual, it's my first real colored drawing, and has an actual background! (Though I punk'd out on the scenery...ocean view, pfft!! XP)

( 'Wearing red coats was the exclusive right of the nobility in medieval times and the red robes of kings, cardinals, judges and executioners announced their power over life and death.' )

And lest I forget, here's a pimp of my first challenge! I'm on Team Romance, but it took me forever and a day to decide, hee.

Announcing:
The 2006 SNARRY ART OLYMPICS!!




GAMES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2006!

Come and support your favourite artists, and their teams!

I'm working on a drawing of Harry called The Scarlet Wizard, and have decided to screencap the first few steps. This isn't really a tutorial, since I'm not technically teaching anything...but if anyone gets anything out of it, so much the better! I hope to have the drawing finished by Sunday, but who knows, haha.

Dial-up users, beware!

( Step-by-step 'tutorial' for The Scarlet Wizard... )

Title: Harry in Moonlight
Character: Harry
Rating: G
Medium: photoshop, tablet, a reference pic too!
Notes: Happy birthday, Harry! Good thing I started this weeks ago, or my laziness would never have finished it in time :D.

( At twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. )

My secret lovepairing is TimeTravel!Harry/Younger!Albus. I can't art up anything of worth lately, but at least I can sketch these two crazy cats together.

( Their love is so lang syne. )

Title: THIS IS, UM, DEEP STUFF
Pairing: Harry/any male (because of the "dude")
Rating: G
Medium: photoshop, tablet
Notes: I can't even explain this. An Attempt Anyway: It's 4 AM, I'm studying my ass off for finals, I get an inspiration for a serious drawing, and it turns into a 10 minute sketch in which Harry has become some guy who liked (OOPS, "LOVED") me in high school. This stuff is never meant to be taken seriously.

( Poor, loveless Harry! I have no sympathy for you. )

Title: Shy Beginnings
Pairing: Harry/Ron
Rating: PG13
Medium: tablet, Painter 8, Photoshop 5.5
Notes: I was never really into Harry/Ron until I read some mad_martha fics. Pardon my Californian, but dude: awesome.

( And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin )

Title: Monastery!Snarry
Rating: G
Medium: Photoshop 5.5, tablet
Notes: Blarrghhhh!!! I wish I could spend more time on this but, hah, having failed a pop quiz this morning, it has become obvious that my procrastinatory attitude towards school needs to change, pronto. This came from reading an entry by painless_j about Snarry in a monastery AU fic. Suuuch a kink for me. Anyway, please don't look at these hands that I have drawn. I hate hands. So much. And pretend there's an entire bookcase drawn in the background. Quote from "The Sisters" of the book Dubliners by James Joyce, an old favorite of mine.

( --I wouldn't like children of mine, he said, to have too much to say to a man like that. )

Title: Tutu Waiter
Reference: CK ad
Rating: G
Medium: Sketcher of Artgrounds.
Notes: First time I've digitally drawn this way--I guess this could count as "digital painting"? Anyway, I got too tired to finish the background. I don't think I've ever finished a drawing, wah.

( He pirouettes to your table, I swear. )

While at home in California, it's hard to do larger real media work because I lack an easel. Then I came up with an awesome idea:

( I spend too much time congratulating myself for the silliest things. )

Title: Hand and Sponge-tipped Wite Out
Reference: my left hand and a bottle of Liquid Paper
Rating: the title sounds dirty, but the picture is G
Medium: charcoal and white chalk on brown paper, level-adjustment in Photoshop 5.5 to make the picture look more like the real drawing
Notes: My first large-scale drawing. Using my (lack of) height as a measurement, I'm guessing this drawing is about 5'5" tall. My hand was having spasms after the hours of posing.

( The prompt was: Draw your hand with an object that means something to you. )

Title: Skinny Girl
Rating: G
Medium: Sketcher of Artgrounds.
Notes: Another digital painting. And, yay, I actually finished this one. Except she looks scary and her left arm is so long, she could pat a giraffe on the head (exaggeration, yo!).

( She sits. )