Art: In the Commons (Severus/Lucius, G), Battle Robes Harry (Harry, G)

[jateshi]

Title: In the Commons
Artist: jateshi
Characters: Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy
Rating: G
Status: Completed!
Warnings: Student-aged Severus and student-aged Lucius...?
Comments: I *really* love how this came out - almost like my old mental image of it, if not just as close as I humanly can get. Dedicated to the wonderful and lovely underlucius, for reasons which are too vast to simply be named in a mere dedication. *snugs*





Title: Battle Robes: Harry Potter
Artist: jateshi
Character: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Status: Completed, even with a bit of a mystical background.
Warnings: Uh...?
Comments: I picked this piece to colour for a bit of fun and it rekindled the desire to do some more designs for battle robes for peoples - so if a new lineart or four zillion come around in the future, you all know why - it's Harry Potter's fault. :D Blame Harry!



For sale


--> Take a look at the art I've got for sale! Also, maybe a little bit of cross-posting later on.

Comments

[underlucius.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! And thank you so much for the dedication! I can't remember which ones I said I'd buy but this was one of them, I think there was another one too.

[jateshi.livejournal.com]

*snugs* I prolly wouldn't have finished this one without your little push.

It was this one and Student of the Arcane. :3

[gypsychilde.livejournal.com]

Albeit being colored a little messily, I am gawking at your awesome 'drawing folds and ruffles' skills in the battle costume piece. The shading is just damn lovely. I am envious here.

The battle aura stuff is nice and swirl-y (I love stuff like that), but the way it runs a bit (watercolor?), it makes me think of blood and, suddenly, the nice, strong image of Harry kicking ass makes me think it is something much more sinister. 0__0

[jateshi.livejournal.com]

*blushy* Sanks verra muchly, luv. The messy colouring is mostly owed to the fact that when I am sick (as oh yes, I still am) my motor control is a bit down - the main reason why I did a piece before working on the one of Severus and Lucius in the commons. :3

Not watercolours - all markers. And heeee, blood! :D

[gryphynkit.livejournal.com]

gorgeous work! :smiles:

[jateshi.livejournal.com]

:3 Thanks a lot, luv!

[callisto-chan.livejournal.com]

Your colouring always impresses me. :) he "In the Commons" piece is impressive and looks very nice coloured (albeit darker than I thought it would be); for some reason I like Snape's robes. Black is always a difficult colour to work with, and yet you managed it.

What really impresses me is the Harry battle robes piece, though -- just look at the red and gold! They look so vibrant! And the colours are just blended together incredibly well. And I must ask -- how exactly did you achieve the background with markers? I don't have Prisma markers so I can't attempt it myself, but I'm just curious how you did it, since it looks so much like a watercolour.

[jateshi.livejournal.com]

The trick, I found, for doing black lies in creating the impression of graduated tones while still keeping the honest black as your darkest shadow. I came out lucky to have a tone-faded black to use for a "highlight" on blacks now (it's a Tria "Extra Black" oddly enough) and I use Copic's Special Black as my darkest-dark because visually it's shades 'darker' black than the Tria.

:"> I've really been trying to work on smoothing my marker technique out so it looks less like markers and more like othr traditional media, mainly for fun and to see if I can. The background was achived using the "Colorless Blender" which basically chemically lets the ink run like watercolor. It does bleed-out the tone (you can actually use it to break a dark color down into the ink-blends the company used to MAKE the dark color) so before I used the colorless blender, those backgroundy swirls were as red as the rest of Harry's clothing - I smudged red in a swirl using a tissue and then used the blender to make it look like a dash of watercolor.

:3 Hope that long bit helps!