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Jul. 26th, 2005 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinOkay, it's 11:28 MDT, but I had to show my dad the nifty Photomerge thing in CS so that delayed me.
Morfin Gaunt - I realised while drawing this that I had cast Deagol as Morfin. Um.
Merope Gaunt - Gee, you'd think I liked Brett Helquist's art or something. I'm not sure her face is 'heavy' enough, but she's got the frazzled, desperate look I was going for. Her far hand is supposed to be on something but it's too high for a sink or counter ... any lower, though, and it would mess up the action line, so I don't know what to do with it.
Young Riddle gets a Visitor - This is probably my favourite scene in the book and the one to leave the strongest visual impression. Upon rereading it (halfway through completion of the drawing) I don't think Tom ever is in this pose, but I liked what it said in body language so I'm going to pretend that it was written that way. He also looks a bit too old, but I'm a terrible judge of age, so what do I know? Anyway, I'm rambling. I like it.
Morfin Gaunt - I realised while drawing this that I had cast Deagol as Morfin. Um.
Merope Gaunt - Gee, you'd think I liked Brett Helquist's art or something. I'm not sure her face is 'heavy' enough, but she's got the frazzled, desperate look I was going for. Her far hand is supposed to be on something but it's too high for a sink or counter ... any lower, though, and it would mess up the action line, so I don't know what to do with it.
Young Riddle gets a Visitor - This is probably my favourite scene in the book and the one to leave the strongest visual impression. Upon rereading it (halfway through completion of the drawing) I don't think Tom ever is in this pose, but I liked what it said in body language so I'm going to pretend that it was written that way. He also looks a bit too old, but I'm a terrible judge of age, so what do I know? Anyway, I'm rambling. I like it.
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-27 03:40 am (UTC)Art? Art is good.
(Les Miz is also good.)
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-27 04:29 am (UTC)I have been gone a while, haven't I? I think this is the longest I've gone without posting since I got a Livejournal.
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Date: 2005-07-27 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-27 05:33 am (UTC)my boyfriend and my friends were in les miz last year for the musical. my friends played jean valjean and eponine. they were really awesome. they went to go see it in SF a few weeks ago. i wish i went =\
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Date: 2005-07-27 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-27 07:03 am (UTC)WOW WoW wow
Date: 2005-07-27 07:51 am (UTC)I got the chills now
Thanks Tealin ;O)
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Date: 2005-07-27 08:17 am (UTC)Blast you, wench! How do you manage to start out so good, and yet improve with each new picture?
I suppose Dumbledore’s torso would be curved a little more if his elbows were resting on his knees -- but personally I like the gesture he is using rather more -- it looks ... er ... well, expectant, I guess. The only other nit I can pick is that I’m not entirely convinced by the curvature of the headboard -- it doesn't quite look like it will reach to the near side of the bed to me.
Does anyone else see Tom Riddle as Roddy McDowell? Anyway, he gives a convenient 1940’s boy reference -- just find a movie in which he’s the age you want, google it, and get all kinds of great pics:
http://www.xmoppet.org/miscpix/41_3.jpg
I generally see Dumbledore as Alan Napier, but (oddly) there don’t seem to be nearly as many characteristic pictures of him, despite the fact that he was in a kajillion movies. However:
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/1104/1102art/noirart/5.jpg
Hope those were of some use.
Finally, a word (just one) about Merope. *Envy*
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Date: 2005-07-27 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-27 01:01 pm (UTC)But the drawings rock ^_^
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Date: 2005-07-27 01:19 pm (UTC)And I DO love that inbred look you've given the Gaunt kids! Morfin is brilliant -- just as nasty as he should be.
Merope is hard to capture, but nowhere NEAR as difficult as Eileen Prince has been for me. For some reason, I just can't manage to get her design standardised. It's driving me INSANE...well, more insane than I already am! ^_^ Tobias, conversely, has been one of the easiest of the random-only-just-verbally-mentioned charcters.
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:09 pm (UTC)dumbledore has to be my favorite character...(sob)..and youve done a lovely job with him, i dont see any problems with his posture..
theres this guy who always sits on the bench in front of the gas station every morining-looks exactly like your Morfin XD
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:20 pm (UTC)I really like Merope. The sense of movement is great.
Amd finally, I heart Dumbledore in that picture.It just IS Albus. Tom looks great, but as other said, too old. His face is so long, slender and pointed- he has no baby fat, and even slender 11 year olds have that. His limbs are also very long and proportioned more like a 14 year old. I really think this picture captures Tom, just not at the right age.
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-27 04:03 pm (UTC)So Tea's right.
And Les Mis is LOVE
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Date: 2005-07-27 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-27 05:11 pm (UTC)The point is that Tom's not a normal child. So it's OK for him to look a little older. At least he doesn't look as old as he does in Mary Grandpre's abysmal representation of the scene in the American Version. I swore from the illustration he would have been at lest 18 there, so I was like "Woah!" when I read he was only 11.
Your version still kicks Mrs. Grandpre's version's butt, though! :-)
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Date: 2005-07-27 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-27 05:52 pm (UTC)Yes, I am a random lurker/stalker. Sorry, but your work is just too good to ignore.
Les Miz = LOOOOOVE
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Date: 2005-07-27 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-27 08:25 pm (UTC)Getting to see a younger Dumbledore picture with my own eyes instead of my watery imagination, what a treat! I pictured Merope looking 'stringier' in the face but your version is just fine. Yay dynamic posture. That hand is totally grabbing onto a shelf. Yep.
Morfin... yes. Yes!
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Date: 2005-07-27 09:17 pm (UTC)You know, I think I pictured a whole Golum thing going on with Morfin, but ya nailed my mental image of Merope.
Can't wait to see more. :)
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:24 am (UTC)I pictured Morfin kinda like a crazy evil scary Tarzan(the disney version)...I'm not sure I was reading thoroughly though. :B *goes to read book description*
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:42 am (UTC)For some reason, Morfin made me giggle uncontrollably. You've captured him perfectly.
Your young Tom Riddle reminds me strongly of the actor. Which is good, because the actor has that creepy air about him. I agree that he looks a bit older than eleven, but not by too much.
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Date: 2005-07-28 04:17 pm (UTC)Although I didn't feel bad for Voldemort, I did for Merope...almost wonder how Riddle Sr. really reacted when he saw who he had left Cecilia for...?
Definitely a nice pose with Tom and Dumbledore...are you considering a similar one when they meet years later in Dumbledore's office?
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Date: 2005-07-28 08:00 pm (UTC)Keep it up, dude. :)
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Date: 2005-07-28 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)Your Dumbledore is great. I love his suit.
cool---again!
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Date: 2005-07-30 10:52 pm (UTC)Yes, and don't do it again! Seriously, not on.
(Also, art is 'mazing.)
Merope and the other Pics
Date: 2005-07-31 01:10 am (UTC)young riddle
Date: 2005-08-01 11:29 am (UTC)the technichally inept persues her goal evermore!
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Date: 2005-09-04 05:49 pm (UTC)http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/unwitting_dupe/lilriddle2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/unwitting_dupe/merope.png