Art Hand [First Artwork in Years. Slight Harry Potter Reference.]

[Lady Asphyxia]

[color=black][size=1][font=Verdana]As most of you know, when it comes to creativity, I'm more into words than pictures. Anyway, around the end of last term I got bored and stressed; exams, you know. And writing just seemed like too much hassle at that time, especially because it took so long. So I pulled out a sketchbook I had lying around -- I've always collected art stuff, but for a long time I've considered myself artistically retarded. -- and started doodling. Just cartoonish faces and such. One night I was reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and came across the Umbridge detention scenes [I think that's ambiguous enough not to need a spoiler]. And so I decided to sketch it...sort of.[/font][/size][/color]



[color=black][size=1][font=Verdana]To put it bluntly, it's just a hand, with some parchment [which I don't think is very good] around it. But, yeah, anyway. I haven't drawn in years; the last thing I can remember drawing was a picture for my godmother in year..2, I think it was. *scratches her head* So this is the hand I drew..I'm not sure if it's very good or not, because like I said, I'm more into writing than art, so I never paid much attention. Coloured [badly] in pencil, but it faded in the scan, so all you can see are the dark bits. Hmm. I think that's all. [/font][/size][/color]



[color=black][size=1][font=Verdana]Some comment would be much appreciated. ^_^[/font][/size][/color]

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[font=Verdana][size=1]The big picture can be seen [/size][/font][url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/catroyce/Art/I_must_Not_Tell_Lies.jpg"][b][font=Verdana][size=1]here[/size][/font][/b][/url][font=Verdana][size=1].[/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana][size=1]EDIT -- Cropped it a bit.[/size][/font]
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[Mimmsicle]

[font=Verdana][size=1][color=darkred]That hand is absolutely exquisite. I actually placed my own hand to match the stance of the hand in your drawing, just to have a natural preference, and found that you've really done well in capturing what it looks like. Marvellous ^_^[/color][/size][/font]

[font=Verdana][size=1][color=darkred]As for the parchment, I can't give a constructive opinion there. For someone who can't draw (like me), those things can be a hassle to get right. The fact that you've not drawn it from a side angle (and showing how the paper is curled) felt strange at first, hehe.[/color][/size][/font]
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But I will say that it looks good, with that tea-stained color and somewhat soft edge where it's rolled up.[/color][/size][/font]


[font=Verdana][size=1][color=darkred]I really, [i]really[/i] like this drawing. It has a wonderful feel to it and more than anything, it conveys the spirit of a writer ^_^ (forgive the cheesy moment)[/color][/size][/font]

[Arcadia]

[size=1]Like Mimmi said, I think you've captured the hand pretty well. I know that I for one [i]suck[/i] at drawing hands, so there's not a lot of advice I can give about that. It does look good, though, and the best I can say is to keep drawing them, heh.

I don't know if you know how to shade or not, but I think that it would help give this a little bit of a realistic element. Maybe. The colors help with the fantasy aspect of it, though. I'm definitely sensing magic, but that might also be because I'm a Harry Potter freak. >_>;;

Anyway, I likes it a lot. ^_^[/size]

[Lady Asphyxia]

[font=Verdana][size=1]*laughs* I don't know how to shade, actually. Like I said, I've never really done anything artistic before -- except for when I was young, and that wasn't anything technical. [/size][/font]

[font=Verdana][size=1]And um...*cough* Mimmithetea-stainedpartwaswherethelightcameinfromthescannernotbeingabletocloseproperly. *blush* :p[/size][/font]