Many Happy Returns

[tealin]

Happy birthday, Harry! (for the next thirty-seven minutes... )

In honour of this festive occasion, I have drawn

We already know Ms Rowling is not a Radio 4 fan because she completely missed the chance to arrive at Mornington Crescent, but further proof was the lack of this scene, which regular Now Show listeners may, if intoxicated, find slightly amusing:


Drawn in reaction to that shot in the movie:

There is no Lucius but Makani's Lucius! I did this one with no reference at all, so it's probably way off... and, obviously, the mouth is all curly ... Am I the only one who thought the Berenstain Bears looked quite sinister?


and
I had a small brainwave this morning and drew this on the bus:

It's a really wonky drawing but I kind of like that, in this one, which means either that I am losing my mind or the world is ending.

Some doodles from work, trying to make sure Snape, Scrimgeour, and Moody don't all look too similar. I don't know if I did establish that at all.

Apparently I can't refrain from doodling even when in the Epicentre of Awesome.


I tried playing with it a bit to get some dimensionality. This looked too much like Scrimgeour so it was rejected.


'If you truly wish to master Legilimency, Severus,' said Dumbledore, 'You must learn to conceal your really quite obvious "tell"...'
(help, my wit is atrophied!)


Tried redoing a scene from the Azkaban Project (again with no reference; waiting for the bus is a hard time to look up old files) ... I like this design, it's fun, even if he is yelling at ... the floor...?


I wanted to draw a pose with his robes billowing but I gave up on the thumbnails pretty quickly and settled for ridiculously overblown cliché...

Then I noticed he looked like A PURTY FLOWER:

Where's his tambourine?

All DH spoiler-safe!

Comments

snape-age

[thelowkeyloki.livejournal.com]

The new Snape looks like your Sherlock Holmes, in disguise.

Re: snape-age

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I thought that at first, but when I went back to look at my Sherlock, he had started evolving in a different direction than New Snape. One or two of the first Sherlock drawings I did look similar but the Red-Headed League gag and the tandem bike one (have I even scanned those?) are much further off that track. They could stand to be more different, but they are described in very much the same way ... tall, pale, thin, hooked nose, austere, cunning, intense... I'm sure New Snape will evolve as I draw him but he feels like a better fit than the old version which was always a bit of a compromise. Besides, it fits Vetinari (also described in much the same way) far better than it ever did Snape.

[ceilonar.livejournal.com]

I was looking at the fourth one, with the Snape-Scrimgeour-Moody stuff. Maybe it's just the music I'm listening to, but the random horse made me laugh and laugh for AGES.

"Okay, there's Snape, and Moody, and Scrimgeour...and A HORSE!"

And yes, the Berenstein bears were creepy.

[infiniteviking]

*falls over laughing at the last two*

Your characterization is really neat! I'm finding myself a bit surprised at Snape's low brow and slicked-back hair, but those eyes are a thing of beauty terror. And Moody's jutting chin rules.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, he's got a low brow because that's how one looks frowny all the time (I should know, I have a perpetual glower) and I swear there's a description of him early on with slicked-back hair, because that has always been a very distinct image in my mind, and I was peeved when his hair was described as hanging about his face in book 6 because I thought she'd gotten that from the movies. I'd have to reread the first couple books to be sure, though; it could be the 'beard' think all over again. Anyway, I like the slicked-back hair, I think it's in character and helps differentiate him from Sirius.

[infiniteviking]

I've always drawn him with the hair hanging around his face, but that's probably because I like the description of him glowering at everyone through a "curtain" of hair -- which, admittedly, I remember best from the later books. Yours is definitely a valid interpretation, though, especially since his frustration at Harry's antics might have made him less careful about his appearance over the years. *grins*