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Description
16 x 16
Gouache and Watercolour paints with coloured pencil (and a little bit of marker) 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 ***

Before I start sharing Prisoner of Azkaban illustrations, I have sort of a couple intermediated Potter themed illustrations to share starting with this one.

For those who don't know, the MuggleNet website was working on creating a book of Harry Potter fan art. I was asked to be part of the project; a few of my illustrations were going inside the book, but I was particularly honored by the request of doing an original special illustration for the cover! I agreed with only one stipulation. Since I'm working on my own Potter project, and I am working through the books in order, I would only include characters I'd already done, and wouldn't show Harry or the others older than where I currently was with them. At the time I was working on "Chamber of Secrets". They were cool with that, so I did this piece for them.

I am very happy with the way it turned out. The concept was around the idea of the drawing coming to life... like magic. I came up with the idea of it looking like it was literally a drawing being worked on... those are my own hands I used for reference, and if you look at the golden snitch, you'll see my reflection in it.

At the time, it was requested that I not share the painting until the book was in production; they didn't want to ruin the surprise. But now it seems the project is in hiatus. It's a bummer, even if I wasn't involved with it, as a fan I'd have been interested in a book like that. It's a shame, but oh well, I still have a great illustration to add to my portfolio!

Description
16 x 16
Gouache and Watercolour paints with coloured pencil (and a little bit of marker) 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 ***

Before I start sharing Prisoner of Azkaban illustrations, I have sort of a couple intermediated Potter themed illustrations to share starting with this one.

For those who don't know, the MuggleNet website was working on creating a book of Harry Potter fan art. I was asked to be part of the project; a few of my illustrations were going inside the book, but I was particularly honored by the request of doing an original special illustration for the cover! I agreed with only one stipulation. Since I'm working on my own Potter project, and I am working through the books in order, I would only include characters I'd already done, and wouldn't show Harry or the others older than where I currently was with them. At the time I was working on "Chamber of Secrets". They were cool with that, so I did this piece for them.

I am very happy with the way it turned out. The concept was around the idea of the drawing coming to life... like magic. I came up with the idea of it looking like it was literally a drawing being worked on... those are my own hands I used for reference, and if you look at the golden snitch, you'll see my reflection in it.

At the time, it was requested that I not share the painting until the book was in production; they didn't want to ruin the surprise. But now it seems the project is in hiatus. It's a bummer, even if I wasn't involved with it, as a fan I'd have been interested in a book like that. It's a shame, but oh well, I still have a great illustration to add to my portfolio!