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James Potter and Lily Evans, aka the hottest head girl and boy Hogwarts had ever seen.
#fanart#harry potter fanart#james potter#lily evans#yes these are both based on models can you tell#sketch#harry potter fandom
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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point.
And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again.
And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil.
“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”
So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.
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Hogwarts Era Dramione because why not!
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Happiest birthday Ginny Weasley-Potter !!!!
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POV: You're Hermione's growing competence kink in chapt 64 of Lionheart. @greenerteacups
Same, girl.
#lionheart is everything to me#as GT would say#hatefully marvelous hair#dramione fanart#hermione x draco#draco x hermione#this scene was everything i needed and more#I did not want to render the room of requirement so we vaguely sketched over a screencap instead#dont judge me its sunday
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(*chanting softly*)
Bill and Fleur, Bill and Fleur, Bill and Fleur!
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I lost my job a few weeks ago and y'all. Fanfiction is keeping me afloat, I'm so grateful for the endless cycle of creativity.
#job hunting is the actual worst thing in the world btw#i did open commissions so uh let me know if you want one#reading is my favorite escape#especially when i get to read about the same two characters over and over and over and over again
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Yes, yes, please keep squashing these two on the bench, just pretend like each house have like five hundreds of students and Hogwarts can’t afford enough space for teenagers anymore. 10 points for Gryffindors!
@greenerteacups thank you for sharing your stories with us. I have been in such a dizzying state until you come back and suddenly I have all the courage to keep practicing so I can keep up with all my favourite scenes from Lionheart. You are an angel, I hope you find beautiful moments everyday.
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So, uh. I might have written my first ever piece of creative writing. It's a Triwizard Tournament AU called Bright Red in The Black Lake for the Love of A Weasley fest I helped run on twitter. (Hot Weasely Agenda ™ forever and always)
You can read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54833377
#hot weasley agenda#i write for work all the time#but somehow ive never done it for fun before#aaaaand I get it now#fanart#bill weasley#fleur delacour#bill and fleur#veela mates
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hello! I'm someone who has become incredibly obsessed with Greenteacup's Lionheart, and necessarily, your beautiful artwork as well. i'm so impressed by your artistic abilities -- how do you make the art that you do? what do you use to make your art? any tips for a beginner artist? I don't know how to make digital art but i have an old watercolor set you've inspired me to take advantage of... thank you so much!
Hi!
First of all, that is so incredibly sweet. I’m glad I can be a part of the fandom circle of life where art inspires art inspires art and so on.
In response to your question, if you’ll pardon the trite answer but it’s all just practice. I’ve been drawing and doodling since I was about 6 or 7, and I’m in my 30s now. Over that amount of time you just naturally start to amass some skills, plus I’ve got a fine arts degree so I’ve had some actual specific training. (On traditional art, not digital. Procreate scares me.) I’ve only been doing digital art for about the past year or so, before that I was strictly a pen and paper sort of girl. I try to do at least one new thing each time I break out the ol’ iPad so I’m continuously learning.
That said, here are some thoughts I have about starting out on your Art Journey ™
If you’re just starting it’s always easier to work from a base instead of just your imagination. Translating what’s in your head to paper is HARD, and unless you’re somehow a magical wizard it’ll get more frustrating than it’s worth. Find a picture, go outside and look around, go to a museum and just do your best to notice shapes/ shadows / details. Trace the broad strokes if you have to (provided it’s not someone else’s work of course) I’ll stitch references together in a creepy collage sometimes before I get a pose I like (a hand from here, a fabric lay from there) - transfer paper is your friend. I’d also recommend starting to learn about shadow and shapes from inanimate objects rather than human figures, they’re less complex.
Find a medium that you like that doesn’t frustrate you. You could not pay me to work in pastels. Watercolors are HARD to work with, just based on personal experience so if you’re just starting and you want your art to look specific and detailed, watercolors are hard to control. Start with a pencil or a pen and go from there, then start adding in colors second. Me personally, I love a good fine tip pen, calligraphy pen, and the digital airbrush tools. If you want to do watercolors, masking fluid is a super valuable tool!
After you doodle a little bit, you’ll start to notice things that come easier to you and things that are harder. I personally loooove organic lines which is why I draw hair so often and I hate straight lines which is why I rarely draw backgrounds. Lean into what you’re good at!
Rather than trying to get a solid perfect line and/or erasing over and over again, do a lot of smaller lines and keep it sketchy, I find it’s a lot easier to control shapes that way. If I’m drawing a circle, I do it in 15-20 tiny strokes rather than all in one fell swoop.
This is just me personally, but I like to work dark to light - so for example, if I’m drawing Hermiones hair, I’ll start with a dark brown then add in the highlights after. However - that’s only useful in certain mediums (digital) so if you’re working with pencil or paint, reverse it.
I literally used to try and recreate old Disney concept art from the hand drawn movies as practice. That’s a great study in line thickness and movement. Jin Kim and Glen Kane are my faves.
You’ll have more drafts than finished copies. I have so so so many old sketchbooks and abandoned drawings that just didn’t hit the way I wanted them to. That’s okay!!
So, tools. I use my iPad and Apple Pencil and I honestly only work in the sketchbook app. I will move to procreate eventually buuuut no rush. For traditional art, any pencil and paper will do but if you want to get fancy, get a basic drawing kit with different hardness of pencils, a kneadable eraser, cold pressed paper, and a blending tool. If you’re working with watercolor, there’s special paper that’s made for watercolor and printer paper will absorb a lot of the water and warp a bit. (Again, that’s okay! Just something to be aware of) if you’re working with water based paint, painters tape and masking fluid have saved my butt many a time in the past.
Okay wow that was a very long winded answer thank you if you made it to the end of this absolute novel.
Have fun, enjoy the process and don’t get discouraged along the way. Art doesn’t have to be “good” to be important.
#aprilshowersasks#sketch#drawing class is in session#the flashbacks this gave me to undergrad were sudden and vivid
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The consummate Gryffindor herself, Hermione Granger.
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The Slytherin Princess herself, Pansy Parkinson
#pansy parkinson#sketch#fanart#she’s such a bitch I love her so much#harry potter fanart#harry potter fandom
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Girl, I need more hot harry agenda… like I can’t stop thinking about it 🥵
You and me BOTH, anon.
In the meantime while I try to bully my brain into remembering how to draw triceps may I offer this fic which is my favorite Hinny of all time by my best friend in the whole wide world @zeebee3
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More Weasgrass? More Weasgrass.
#daphne greengrass#ron weasley#RAPHNE#Weasgrass is the greatest ship name of all time#I think this pairing is my legacy#fanart#harry potter fandom
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Sweet Hinny, spicy Hinny. My original OTP, my first fandom, my loves.
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