HP Fanart: A Sliver of a Man
Hi, attempting Harry Potter fan art now :D.
I'm reading HBP again and always wanted to draw this scene with Snape. I figured, as I read the book, I could draw some other scenes that stuck with me when I first read it. There's no rush to read it quickly now. ^^
A Sliver of a Man
© IC 29/08/06
Snape from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Chapter 2: Spinner's End.
Excerpt © JK Rowling:
"...a street called Spinner's End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger... A sliver of a man could be seen looking out at them, a man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes."
Pencil drawn, then added colour in Photoshop. (I need to work on my colour skills... putting colour on drawings always get me).
Below is the process of this drawing.
I liked how Laura Freeman (Harry Potter fan art illustrator) showed us her process in a few of her drawings. It really helped me - reminded me! - to tweak exactly what I wanted to see in my drawings. Usually I'd just throw it away sketch over the original until I got what I wanted. I guess that would apply more to traditional art (rather than cartoon/clean line illustrations) where shading usually covers up stray lines, etc.
I'm not usually a line-art illustrator. My artwork usually ends up becoming as true-to-life as I could make it (shading, correct proportions, etc.). So the process below was me trying to pull myself away from traditional art and doing a line drawing instead.
So, below: process (backwards).
Draft 4: separately. Traced Snape's head, simplified to line art. Enlarged chimney/door.
Draft 3: separate sketches of the two elements (Snape's head, chimney/door) in the illustration.
Draft 2: simplified sketches of Snape's head. Eyes are too large and cute for Snape.
Draft 1: Initial drawing of Snape's head. Too realistic, too much shading, not enough clean lines to be line art. Also, his expression is not right -- too sad... I guess this could be my interpretation of Snape after all that's happened; ending-HBP. But we are trying to draw him as beginning-HBP, ie. cautious, not sad.
Still need to work on a more in-character Snape face. There are so many good Snape faces out there!
I'm thinking of doing Scrimgeour next. Have to figure out how he will look like.
I'm reading HBP again and always wanted to draw this scene with Snape. I figured, as I read the book, I could draw some other scenes that stuck with me when I first read it. There's no rush to read it quickly now. ^^
A Sliver of a Man
© IC 29/08/06
Snape from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Chapter 2: Spinner's End.
Excerpt © JK Rowling:
"...a street called Spinner's End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger... A sliver of a man could be seen looking out at them, a man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes."
Pencil drawn, then added colour in Photoshop. (I need to work on my colour skills... putting colour on drawings always get me).
Below is the process of this drawing.
I liked how Laura Freeman (Harry Potter fan art illustrator) showed us her process in a few of her drawings. It really helped me - reminded me! - to tweak exactly what I wanted to see in my drawings. Usually I'd just throw it away sketch over the original until I got what I wanted. I guess that would apply more to traditional art (rather than cartoon/clean line illustrations) where shading usually covers up stray lines, etc.
I'm not usually a line-art illustrator. My artwork usually ends up becoming as true-to-life as I could make it (shading, correct proportions, etc.). So the process below was me trying to pull myself away from traditional art and doing a line drawing instead.
So, below: process (backwards).
Draft 4: separately. Traced Snape's head, simplified to line art. Enlarged chimney/door.
Draft 3: separate sketches of the two elements (Snape's head, chimney/door) in the illustration.
Draft 2: simplified sketches of Snape's head. Eyes are too large and cute for Snape.
Draft 1: Initial drawing of Snape's head. Too realistic, too much shading, not enough clean lines to be line art. Also, his expression is not right -- too sad... I guess this could be my interpretation of Snape after all that's happened; ending-HBP. But we are trying to draw him as beginning-HBP, ie. cautious, not sad.
Still need to work on a more in-character Snape face. There are so many good Snape faces out there!
I'm thinking of doing Scrimgeour next. Have to figure out how he will look like.