I drawed a pitcher.
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Artist: Cluegirl
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: I hope your boss and kids like it too.
Media: Pencil sketch coloured via photoshop, background photomanipped into place.
Disclaimer: JKR is not in any way injured by my drawing and posting this picture, no matter what her handlers at Warner Brothers think.
Artist's Notes: This is an illustration for my Snarry story, Disenchanted, which is decidedly NOT worksafe. At all. No matter WHERE you work. So don't read that if you're going to get weird.
This picture is large. Dial up users beware. If my journal layout truncates the image, just right-click and select 'view image', and all should be well.
Archiving: Sure. Just please let me know where it's going, and how you'll be using it.
Feedback: is love! And I am utterly without shame.
Detail: Severus. I'm finding that the more I draw him, the more he's coming to resemble a Native American, but for the paleness. Lay that down to whatever psychological jimcrackery you'd like. Myself, I find it kinda sexy...
Detail: Cat!Harry. I am not remotely ashamed to admit that I modeled this cat off my Big Black Boyfriend, my dear departed Familiar, Yasha. I'm extremely proud of how well it came out, and how much like him it looks, given that I did not use a reference.
Artist: Cluegirl
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: I hope your boss and kids like it too.
Media: Pencil sketch coloured via photoshop, background photomanipped into place.
Disclaimer: JKR is not in any way injured by my drawing and posting this picture, no matter what her handlers at Warner Brothers think.
Artist's Notes: This is an illustration for my Snarry story, Disenchanted, which is decidedly NOT worksafe. At all. No matter WHERE you work. So don't read that if you're going to get weird.
This picture is large. Dial up users beware. If my journal layout truncates the image, just right-click and select 'view image', and all should be well.
Archiving: Sure. Just please let me know where it's going, and how you'll be using it.
Feedback: is love! And I am utterly without shame.
Detail: Severus. I'm finding that the more I draw him, the more he's coming to resemble a Native American, but for the paleness. Lay that down to whatever psychological jimcrackery you'd like. Myself, I find it kinda sexy...
Detail: Cat!Harry. I am not remotely ashamed to admit that I modeled this cat off my Big Black Boyfriend, my dear departed Familiar, Yasha. I'm extremely proud of how well it came out, and how much like him it looks, given that I did not use a reference.
The leanness of cat!Harry is fantastic, with the piercing eyes and claws digging into Snape's trousers. Snape is also great, with such great lines on his face and the eyebrow and lanky hair.
I love the detail in this!
The details are striking: the buttons on the pants, the claws, the feet of the chair, the slinky, lankiness of both cat and man, Snape's expression.
You haven't prettified him at all, but man, is he sexy!
Still, I've always figured that most of his ugliness was in attitude and expression, not in actual feature.
Thank you so much for the praise!
And *glee!* You like the open buttons!
/polysyndeton
I also think NativeAmerican!Severus is sexy. The blue shoes are love, along with Snape's ring and the snake-like ornamentation at the bottom of the chair legs.
Absolutely lovely!
Still, I've learnt to like them that way. Especially when my cracked out brain imagines Snape singing Elvis songs to his cauldron.
Thanks!
*Leers...*
And Severus - *swoons*
Thank you so much!
Now that my fan girl squeeing is done. Can I ask you please, may I icon this piece? Either way I love this peice.
As to the sketch... well, see, I scanned the drawing, and then did far too much to it in photoshop for it to really be considered a sketch anymore. But the original is still all just the outlines, with no shading whatsoever, see?
Anyhow, thank you so much for the props! I'm really glad you like it!
That is so Harry's face on a cat!
Absolutely gorgeous picture!
Thanks for the props!
Still, I'm glad you enjoyed the overall effect!
I would love to own that chair. It is so made of win. I love all the green accents: ring, eyes, chair and robe lining. The cat's fur looks so pettable, I would like to touch it, but the claws scare me. O_O I would like to touch the robe lining too, but the cat's claws scare me. The earring on the cat... is an odd hang-up of mine. I don't know why, but I've drawn cats and tigers or leopards, and had an irresistible urge to give them an earring too. I dunno why, it just looks bad-ass to me. My cats would probably disagree with me though. =P
One little thing: I think you might have a little piece of a watermark in the upper right corner of the background?
I'm so glad -- both for the art!love and the story!love too. And I promise, if I ever find an artisan to actually make that chair, I'll have a dozen or so done, and mail one to Alan Rickman with a polaroid camera and an SASE! (Then I'll post it, too!)
Watermark! D'oh! *Facepalms*
I'd corrected that on one version of the background, but I had to discard so many before I found a combination of scale and filter effects that worked, I must have lost track.
Guess I've got a bit more work to do on this then...
I have a cat-earring fetish too. I think it's that Bast statue we always see, with the gold ring lying against her cheek. I do know that my kids would totally rip an earring out in two seconds if they were given one. And if they didn't rip their own out, they'd rip each other's out with all the roughhousing.
btw, I read Can't Take the Sky last night, I bawled my eyes out and had to stop myself from crying myself to sleep.
You have wonderful talents, keep up the most brilliant work.
It just brought things all the more bittersweet...
I was just so hoping for a happy ending and instead... I read tarot a bit myself, (out of practice for two years now, though) so when Eileen was reading the cards, it just broke a little part inside me.
And then when she told Severus what she saw, it just instantly resonated with me that she was lying. And the hope it gave Severus...
You're a brilliant writer.
And I totally absolutely loved the picture. Harry!cat looks similar to my little black cat. When I was reading disenchanted and Hagrid was talking about how abused the little cat was, I instantly had to pick up my own solitary cat and pet her.
Your words just seem to advocate the emotions that the characters are going through and resonate them with the readers.
It's genius.
Adagio for strings... ouch. Yeah, that would have ramped up the angst quotient.
Anyway, thanks again for the props and feedback! This is why we writers do what we do, after all.
Total admiration
You write some of the best Snarry stories out there (not least this one), and you can produce such awesome art as well. You have my profound admiration.
I love everything about this: Snape. *happy sigh* That's real Snape for you.
Harry Cat - oh, he's perfect. I love him! You must miss Yasha.
And the chair legs! Well, like I said, just about everything here is perfect.
Re: Total admiration
Thank you so much! Praise from a peer is worth its weight in rubies, and as you know, the feedback is the whole reason why we put ourselves through the trouble.
I'm glad you like this Snape -- I think he might be one of the best I've drawn, actually. And yeah, I think I'll die missing Yasha. He was one of those 'once in a lifetime' kind of cats. Now I just have to find a way to make that chair, and I can sell it to Slytherins everywhere... (mwahahaha...)
I can hear Cat!Harry just purring happily:)
I really do try not to use actor's faces when I illustrate stories. The actor's likeness is actually their own property, technically, and as an artist myself I try not to infringe on their rights as I can avoid it.
Plus... well, I like 'my' Snape too.
So I'm glad to hear you do as well!