HP Art: D.B. Dibber Seed Catalogue, Page 17

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Title: D.B. Dibber Seed Catalogue, Page 17
Fandom: Harry Potter
Media: Photoshop, cardstock texture, Chain's fingerprint brushes, Fonts: Captain Howdy, Hoedown, Landsdowne, OldStyle
Notes: For omniocular's Non-Fiction Fest with the prompt "a page from a Wizarding gardening catalog." Many thanks to my clever betas, (alphabetically) amelia_eve, la_fono, and la_onza, who

Comments

[gnatkip]

Eeeee, thank you so much! Haha, I'm so glad you got the capacitor reference; that gave me a big thrill in my geekplace and I had to do it.

[aubrem]

Oh, I LOVE this!!! : D

I recognize the salvia and the buddliea but what did you base the fluxweed on??? ::is dead curious::

God, this is fantastic. Now I want to make a whole seed catalog of my own.

[gnatkip]

Thank you! *holds tight*

Heh, fluxweed is the only one that's an actual plant, but I did take some *cough* liberties with the variety name.

Ooh, you should! You totally should! Including a nomadic variety of iris that secretly transplants itself in the middle of the night. Call it "Wanderlust". YES.

I hated to hear of that Bad Thing happening, but I did find it kinda funny in combination with something that happened when I was a kid; we woke up one morning to find our rosebush's single bloom carefully cut as though with scissors, and lying on the grass where it fell. It was such a bizarre thing, and my mother finally decided that the culprit must be the little old lady living next door. So maybe there are marauding bands of crazy little old ladies vandalizing gardens nation-wide. Maybe it's a hazing ritual to be inducted into some sort of crazy little old lady gang. Maybe we too will be inducted some day and ALL WILL BE REVEALED! I have hope.

[kimonkey7]

Beautiful. Gorgeous. And I love the figuring down in the corner - a perfect touch. :)

[gnatkip]

Aw, thank you so much! My beta suggested the figuring and of course I had to agree.

[kimonkey7]

Wow.

That's really interesting...I didn't ever think about, like, an ART beta. Huh.

Is it an art beta? Or do you mean a beta you used for the text made the suggestion?

Sorry, this is just suddenly a fascinating concept to me. (I'm in a weird mood. Sorry.)

[gnatkip]

Hee! I asked them specific questions about the text, but I showed them the whole shebang in context, so they had some ideas about the design as well.

I hardly ever use a beta strictly for art, but a lot of people do, and I'm sure my stuff would be better for it if I did. I'm in a place where I need to actually, right now, for this SPN AU thing (Sam is in a derby hat! Dean is in spats! omg!), but I'm kind of putting it off because I think I'll probably hear that Dean's face is hopelessly fubared, and the only way to fix it will be to start over from scratch. And. You know. Argh. That's gonna suck out loud. So. La la la la, putting it off! ;)

[ileliberte]

This is really, really cool. I love the old, faded look you got and the fingerprint smudges, little scribbles here and there, the worn creases and the dog-earing on the top left. Wonderful work.

[gnatkip]

Eeeep! Thank you so much! :D I love doing this kind of thing, it's like smack for me.

[leelastarsky]

Ah! This is gorgeous! "Flux Capacitor!!!" So much love!! Is it a small component in Time Turners? ;~D

[gnatkip]

Thank you!

HA! omg YES! I cannot believe that never even occurred to me. That would've been PERFECT. Hee!