Canon ART: The Final Duel

[mijan]

I started sketching this on the way home from Sectus, on the airplane. It was an interesting challenge, especially when we hit turbulance, and I was too stubborn to pause. But when I got home, I didn't edit it right away, and the graphite became a bit too stuck on the paper, and manual edits became a bit more difficult. So, I've attempted to edit through photoshop on my laptop. (No art tablet - not even a mouse. Just a touch-pad.) So, here goes nothing. *sigh* Please tell me it doesn't suck.

Title: The Final Duel (Creative, huh?)
Rating: PG, I think.
Genre: Canon
Medium: Mechanical Pencil
Artist's Notes: I had a bit of trouble with the position of Harry's left arm and hand, but I did some extremely painstaking edits with photoshop, and I think I'm happier with it now. Better angle. Also, my crappy scanner is too small to get the whole image, so it cut off the bottom inch of the page, including my signature and the equivalent of a foot of Voldy's back. *shrugs* Gotta love technology.

Comments

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Good show of movement, there. The arm looks okay... It's difficult to get poses like that to come off the way you'd like. The last time I tried to draw Draco, I had the duel scene from movie CoS in my head, with the wand poised almost Tai Chi -style above his head. It was a bitch to get it right, and I was a bit rusty as well. My fingers were cramping up by the time I was satisfied.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

I'm not the world's best post-artist, but I'm usually really good with hands. (See icon for details.) That's why this frustrated me so much. I made some more edits. How does it look now?

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

That looks like a more natural pose, with his palm flat and horizontal.

*gives you a cookie*

[mijan.livejournal.com]

YAY COOKIE! *eats* I love cookies.

And... cool icon. *grins*

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

It read Gay Werewolves and the Ex-Convicts Who Love Them originally (when I got it from Marauder) but then I made a bunch of alternate headlines like Face of Dumbledore Appears in Muggle's Pudding, Lavender Brown Defends Tryst with Centaur, and Harry Potter Defeats Dark Lord; Goes to Walt Disney World. This one, however, is my favorite.