ART: Safety in Your Arms (Hermione/Tonks)

[kiertorata]

Artist: kiertorata
Title: Safety in Your Arms
Characters: Hermione Granger/Nymphadora Tonks
Rating: PG
Media used: Digital
Challenge Inspired art: interhouse-fest 2017, original post here
Concrit?: Sure
Warnings: -
Summary: Post-war, Hermione needs a safe haven to escape the nightmares. She finds it in Tonks's arms.
Notes/comments: Experimented with a draftier pencil-style

Comments

[nearlyconscious]

I've commented on this already but damn. This really doesn't look drafty to me, and yay for pushing yourself! I really love this. So tender and cosy and they both look soooo good.

[kiertorata]

Thank you! <33

I really like the sort of casual, drafty style I see a lot around the internet! It would be cool to make more stuff that way (and so much faster!), and I think since this fest I've had more success with making stuff faster and worrying less about things being rigid and perfect.

[nearlyconscious]

I feel you. I struggle to draw in a drafty, not-too-realistic manner. I'm too used to drawing first a pencil draft, then a polished ink lineart, then colouring and shadows. I sometimes tweak that routine a bit but it's what I'm most comfortable with. Also difficult to draw in non-realistic proportions (like a cartoonish style instead of semi-realistic like my usual), even though I love the result when I put in the effort. But it doesn't necessarily mean a time gain :')
I'm glad you're finding ways to go about drawing that work well for you! *waves cheerleading pompons*

[kiertorata]

Thanks! *thumbs up and motivated grinning*

I know what you mean with the proportions! It looks so great when someone is so confident and relaxed in their style that they can pull off unrealistic proportions and make it look natural. I tend to use loads of reference images for help and just stick to semi-realism.

I've been thinking of challenging myself more to try out different styles (things like black & white, art nouveau, coloring pages, manga, disney, comics, animation, doing more things by hand, time restrictions to drawing and such) and maaaaaaaybe combining it with the 100 Sapphic Beans challenge (still not 100% sure about starting that - the amount of next-gen characters intimidates me since I'm not too fond of them!). It would be cool to have a bit of structure to it though, almost like a challenge. Could I maybe interest you in doing something similar? Like maybe a "try 10 new art things" challenge or something like that! :D

[nearlyconscious]

*flails* YESSS that would be really amazing! We could totally make a fanart challenge table prompt with femslash pairings only from Harry's gen, or leave the pairings up to the artist. Oooh, I would really enjoy something like that! The Bertie Botts' challenge is intimidating, if only because of its sheer length (100 pieces is a lot), and the variety of its pairings (I have just about zero headcanon for Susan Bones so I'm going to need to think about that because she's in my prompt table, ha). A challenge focused on trying new techniques with less pressure sounds like a really great idea. Were you thinking of making it available on the comm?

[kiertorata]

You've been doing a really impressive job with your Bertie Botts' table recently though!! But yeah, in addition to next-gen, there's loads of characters on it that I might struggle with because I don't have a head-canon for them (and I feel bad for pretty important ones like Lavender missing from the table - she'd probably be in all of my Author's choices