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Description
approximately 22 x 32
Gouache paints with coloured pencil on watercolour paper

*** This is technically a re-posting of this illustration. I plan to do so with all of my Potter art work building up (hopefully) to having some new stuff to share there after. So if you feel like you've seen this before - you probably have. On the upside, I'm sharing it at a larger resolution and without the DeviantArt watermark on it now ***

So, as I was finishing the last illustrations to book 1 of Harry Potter, I was looking back and feeling one scene got particularly jipped. And it was odd to say considering how many vignette drawings I did for it, but I felt Diagon Alley didn't get it's full due. The scene I chose to paint was when Harry gets his wand, and I still stand by that decision. If I could only do one painting, that's the one I would choose. But I didn't have to only do one, but since I feel a strange need to create a guideline for what I do, and by doing a second painting for one of the chapters, I'd have to do something to set it apart and not feel like I'd need to do multiples for other chapters. So I did a double sized illustration. I want to say something went wrong with my measurements, and it didn't come out to be EXACTLY double sized, but I'm alright with is. And considering I have an easier time with people, animals and other organic things than I do with structures and vehicles... I actually had doing those... I think this scene turned out pretty nice. It was certainly one of the more ambitious paintings I'd ever done at that time.

Description
approximately 22 x 32
Gouache paints with coloured pencil on watercolour paper

*** This is technically a re-posting of this illustration. I plan to do so with all of my Potter art work building up (hopefully) to having some new stuff to share there after. So if you feel like you've seen this before - you probably have. On the upside, I'm sharing it at a larger resolution and without the DeviantArt watermark on it now ***

So, as I was finishing the last illustrations to book 1 of Harry Potter, I was looking back and feeling one scene got particularly jipped. And it was odd to say considering how many vignette drawings I did for it, but I felt Diagon Alley didn't get it's full due. The scene I chose to paint was when Harry gets his wand, and I still stand by that decision. If I could only do one painting, that's the one I would choose. But I didn't have to only do one, but since I feel a strange need to create a guideline for what I do, and by doing a second painting for one of the chapters, I'd have to do something to set it apart and not feel like I'd need to do multiples for other chapters. So I did a double sized illustration. I want to say something went wrong with my measurements, and it didn't come out to be EXACTLY double sized, but I'm alright with is. And considering I have an easier time with people, animals and other organic things than I do with structures and vehicles... I actually had doing those... I think this scene turned out pretty nice. It was certainly one of the more ambitious paintings I'd ever done at that time.