Draurings!

[tealin]

Gag sketches will be forthcoming, but before I can do them, I had to work out updated designs. It was surprisingly easy to picture Harry & Co. at 16/17.
Harry - He is Harry.
Malfoy - Design probably inspired by one of the characters in a classmate's final film.
Ron - Meh ... he's okay.
Hermione - Also okay. Good enough.
Slughorn - Likely stolen from a project I was working on with a friend which had a character that looked very similar. Sluggy's fatter, though ... ? Their descriptions are just so similar.

1:31 pm
The first of ... well, a few, anyway.
GAG SKETCH #1
Tell me I wasn't the only one thinking this...
(It will probably get coloured when I go home and have my lovely tablet on my lovely computer with the monitor that does colours right)

Comments

[tony-cliff.livejournal.com]

Jeez, I hate to stick out like a sore thumb, but here:

Malfoy feels a bit too jock-ish for me. I think it's the proper up-an-down head. He doesn't quite feel slimy enough. Might just be the front-on angle, though.

What about exaggerating Slughorn's eyes? Making them smaller and pushing them more towards his nose? Right now he feels a bit too thoughtful and a tad too sincere.

Ha ha ha, sorry, you may not have wanted crits. I know they're just sketches. Oh well, just my 2p. It's weird seeing the others older, but hey, they look right! Bueno!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hey, criticism, so long as it is relevant and informed, is always welcome. I think what may be making Malfoy look jockish is his relatively thick neck. I tried a thin neck and it made him look rather too young and feminine, so I bulked it up a bit and it looked a little better, to my eyes. I tried to refrain from making him too bulky – he's still got fairly lanky shoulders (though they have broadened out). I'm just going through the book of tricks to age people up and seeing what works... Maybe in a different pose, a thinner neck will look better.

I was actually just thinking this morning when I scanned him that Slughorn ought to have more closely-set eyes. I think what I need to do is scrap the image of that other character in my head before I try again, because he was thoughtful and sincere. Dunno about smaller ... I'll have to see when I draw him bigger, as if I shrink his eyes down now they will just be little black smudges.

Thankee muchly!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah ... Malfoy's shoulders are definitely a tad too wide. Ah well, I'm sure there will be an occasion to try him again.