Such a Waste

[tealin]

Prompted by an email I recieved which asked me how I pictured Lupin in the fifth and sixth books, I have illustrated every scene in which he appears with TWO easy sketches!


Lupin Scene Type A: Exposing Relevant Background Information (okay, okay, I cheated and made the speech bubble in Photoshop, which technically I'm not supposed to do with this sketchbook thing, but I wanted it to look really artificial.)
Lupin Scene Type B: Comforting Distressed Person(s)

These drawings are ICKY. Bad. And I'd even gone to life drawing and everything.

Comments

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Tonks, maybe?!

LOL! I haven't seen your Lupin in ages! Thanks for bringing him back! :D (He seems to have caffeine addictions... I can relate!)

[diffigrl.livejournal.com]

What's that evil smile while he's comforting said person? It looks like he's behind it all.

[jesterquin.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha. That's fantastic. Poor Lupin.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Tonks, Harry, Molly, Sirius, Werewolfed Man In Hospital, who knows, maybe even random people on the street! Anyone!

I haven't drawn him for two years and it SHOWS.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Maybe he IS! That would be a twist, wouldn't it?

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Too skinny to be Molly, and a little too short to be Sirius. But the others do work! But yes, he did spend his whole time in OotP being the universal comfort blanket! ^_^

Naah... it doesn't show at all! He looks great!

[aisforamy]

I love your Lupin! Thought the second sketch doesn't make him look very sympathetic to the mystery person's plight. More mischievous!

mad?

[soapdinosaur.livejournal.com]

"these drawings are ICKY. Bad."

You've just been handed the (bl)Oscar* for (1) best insane statement made on a personal blog, and (2) best deluded statement on a personal blog.

Oh, and you've also been certified "incredibly talented" by some obscure, anonymous selection committee as well.



* the (bl)Oscar looks and weighs as much as the real Oscar, except he's blue. Also spelt "blOgscar".

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, this is very flattering, but I doubt the award was decided by a jury of experts in my profession...

[tehladyelbereth.livejournal.com]

That's always how I pictured Lupin. Exactly actually...

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

*dies* You have distilled the essence of Remus Lupin. That's fantastic.

I know you're not satisfied with the drawings, but I really like the way you draw Lupin -- it's very true to his character.

Would you mind if I recc'd this post? I wouldn't bother asking, but I have a readership somewhere in the vicinity of 1800 LJers, so I like to ask before they all come here and kill your bandwidth. :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well, it would be a test of Photobucket's supposedly 'unlimited' bandwidth ... |: ) heh heh heh.

Yeah, OK, sure, let's see what happens. But they're such bad drawings! I'd direct you to some of the ones on my site, but that definitely would have bandwidth issues...

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

You know what I'm always impressed with . . . the wrinkles in you clothes. Not that I'm not impressed with everything but I can not intuit the stupid wrinkles in a robe, so it always impresses me when you do it so well.

I love these, so funny. The first on especially, partially because it's more self explanatory than the other.

Your character design is also wonderful.
And as for imperfections, they're sketches! Since were were sketches suppossed to be perfect (only in the minds of the artists who make them I think).

[soapdinosaur.livejournal.com]

True, true.

But art is about pleasure derived, not experts in professions...

[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

ok, I'm imagining Harry here confessing Lupin that he loves Ginny and doesn't know how to tell her and Lupin listening but at the same time remembering James telling him EXACTLY the same thing about Lily. I know this doesn't actually happen in canon, but that's the impression the drawing gives me.

And the drawing is really cool, indeed if that's how you draw him after 2 years then if you hadn't stopped drawing him he would be close to perfection!

Oh Yeah?

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Tell that to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Seances.

A²

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I'm not unhappy, I just know I can draw better. I'm not curled on the floor in a fetal ball of weeping misery – if I didn't notice problems with my drawings, I'd never improve. I've stagnated enough as it is, I don't want to be going backwards, and this drawing is indeed backwards. That's all.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm comparing right now the sketches from "The Azkaban Project" and these, and... there's not really that much of a difference, except for the nose on the second sketch, and you can tell right away it was easier for you to draw him in The Azkaban Project than now. I still think, though, that this is the best Lupin I've ever seen (including the movie).

Re: Oh Yeah?

[soapdinosaur.livejournal.com]

I've been telling them that, but they keep putting me on their police stalker lists...

[shazzamitsneill.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh! Lupin! Much love goes to you, I can't draw a hand holding a cup worth crap.

Nobody seems to like to draw Lupin anymore, so I drew him. Of course, in his young years (the only time people seem to draw him).

Awesome, love, both of them. You are just as good as Makani!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Nobody seems to like to draw Lupin anymore...

That's because all he does is (a)expose relevant backgound information or (b)comfort people! Booo-ring!

As good as Makani, HAH! I think not. For she is the most rockin' artist of cool. And is steadily improving.

[shazzamitsneill.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. Let me tell you! Makani is so awesome. I like, write to her a lot and I've probobly gotten on her nerves, but that's okay! If she hated me I would still love her drawings to death! They are AWESOME. You and her both inspired me to draw more, like, once I searched "Firebolt" in images in google just for fun, and your picture of Harry and Ron walking back from the quidditch pitch came up. And I clicked on that and at the time I was like "ANIME, ANIME" and I secretly had this passion for your "american" style art. And you got me to draw a tonnnnnn more and then you mentioned Heather, and I went there to her site and came apon even MORE gorgous drawings and I slowly morphed my style. It went from "anime" to "realistic Narnia type" and then to the style like a mix of, well, I don't know, Makani, Twirlynoodle and Narnia. I've never really thought of that like that . . but I geuss that's how it looks. Hmm . .

[maladroitness.livejournal.com]

(Sigh)
Honestly, between you and Makani, my life is made complete.

If this past icky, I shudder to think of how dazzling the pieces that you REALLY like are xD

Anyways, awesome job. So perceptive xD. I want to collluuuurrr :3

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Gettin on Lupin for serving a functional purpose again? Aw. Meany.

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

I must agree with whoever it was above who said it; your clothing is amazing. I cannot draw fold for the life of me.

And I like the first one a lot...the second one...yeah, seems a little...un-Lupin.