the tattoo, 2

[mijeli]

Title: The tattoo (2)
Artist: mijeli
Rating: PG
Materials Used: photoshop
Warning: top nudity, smoking
Notes: Sort of the follow-up to The tattoo (1) - but can also stand alone :) I hope you like it!
His tattoo is slowly healing.. is Draco, too?
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Comments

[potteresque_ire]

OMG. Yes yes yes. That look, that cigarette... I'm speechless. In one picture, you've written a billion word story.That green line-is that a symbol of him coming back as a person? That line says so much about healing to me.

*Huggles you hard&

[mijeli]

Aww Pie, you flatter me! Not that I mind :D I'm thrilled you see such an epic story in this.. admittedly, I'm still hoping someone will write it for me. LOL.

Do you want me to say something really disappointing about that green line? *grin* Your choice! It's actually just a sketch line, because his face was giving me a harder time than the rest... so I sketched it in a different document, and in a bright colour so it'd stand out of the other lines later. In the end, I left it, because I thought it looked alright :)

But OMG I'M SO EXCITED IT SPEAKS TO YOU LIKE THIS AFTER ALL :)) *loves Pie!interpretation* Thank you, my dear. I'm really glad you like it ♥

ETA: Hey!! It did show me a black spoiler bar in the preview... ):

[potteresque_ire]

Weird. It shows up with a spoiler bar in my email too, but not here.

Awww. It doesn't matter what you say about the green line. I like it there! it matches well with the bit of red in Tattoo one. You know in canon, Red is the good color and green is the evil, but often it's the other way around and that's what I see here. Red as hell, Green as life. So it makes sense *nods*

Is that midline scar from Sectumsempra?

[mijeli]

Yes! Yeeeees! One of the best parts about drawing is what others see in it.. and I love that take. Yup, red as wound, green as healing. This puts pressure on me - what colour to use in the next one?! ;)

And yes, it's the Sectumsempra scars. I love drawing them so much, and I love reading about them, and I ...think I have a kink for them. Hee. In my imagination, they make him this imperfectly-beautiful that's so exciting.

[potteresque_ire]

Whatever color comes to you at that point, use it! You have such a fantastic way with them. (You know, that bright blouse from the Scent Memory piece you drew for Bryoney still haunts me)

:D I think a lot of people like the sectumsempra scar. I'm more of a Dark Mark girl because that Mark must show so much on his pale skin. The Scar... I get worried about the tissue healing prospects of it! But Draco is never very beautiful in my head. But he is very distinct. I also imagine that when he laughs, his nose wrinkles and his gumline will show a little. He laughs like the happiest child :D.

[mijeli]

Really, it does?!? I'm so excited! You know, I hardly ever use colour (aside from the usual grey-and-reds that I'm familiar with), but that blouse just had to be bright. It really stood out in the story, and I'm thrilled it stood out in the art. ♥!

WELL I LIKE BOTH OKAY ;)

I also imagine that when he laughs, his nose wrinkles and his gumline will show a little. He laughs like the happiest child

OMG PIE I LOVE YOU. Seriously. This made -me- smile like the happiest idiot child... how are you so fab at drawing into my head??
(But what's to worry about the healing? You mean, the numbness that follows?)
And yeah, Draco isn't classic "beautiful" to me, either. Very edgy. But to me, edgy and pointy and thin -is- beautiful, maybe that's why I think so :)

[potteresque_ire]

The tissue healing thoughts come from having studied how scar formation works. Very nerdy on my part :D.

Now, to make you happier, imagine how Harry feels when he first saw that smile lit up on Draco's face. For him. :)))))

[mijeli]

Really? That sounds like a really cool sort of nerdery. *approves*

And yay! No doubt an epic moment! :'D