Okay, I’ll admit that I’m a Harry Potter freak now, as my friend Alice says. I recently finished the series. I know — I’m like 5 years behind on popular culture. I’m glad to have read it all though. While JK Rowling isn’t exactly the greatest author in the world (see dialogue attributions like “Ron ejaculated loudly”), I felt growlingly attached to the imaginative plot and endearing characters just by breezing easily through page after page (too many pages).
Anyway, I was bored last night and thinking about the last film after coming across its trailer in my nightly Google Reader browsing. I picked up my sketchbook and made a quick sketch of that one confrontation scene at the end of “The Forest Again.” Then I started playing around in Photoshop and applied base colors and found a neat forest background.
While it’s not perfect, it feels good to mess around with drawing/coloring digitally again. I’m going to mess around some more with the original drawing (and fix things like Harry’s giraffe neck, Voldemort’s limp hand, funky folds, etc.) and sketch some more stuff.
Drawing notes:
- I originally had Harry and Voldy closer, but it sort of looked like they were about to lock lips. Um..
- At one point I had Harry wearing a North Face fleece, so I gave him a cape to make him look less like sorority girl and more wizardly.
- I think my Voldy is part Martian Manhunter, part Skeletor.
- I think Nagini is supposed to be in a cage in this scene. Whatever.
- I had Nagini coil around sort of funkily. It looked like Voldy had a coffee mug handle popping out of his back.
- Coloring with the polygonal lasso and paint bucket tools seemed easier to me than using the brush and eraser tools with a mouse. I miss having a Wacom tablet.
