I used design doll in hopes to help me sort out my devastatingly obvious shortcomings concerning anatomy. I did the original sketch by myself first, then created the pose in design doll to really see what am I missing all the time, and so far I find it to be incredibly useful as a self-help tool. Highly recommended to fellow artists who are also learning basic anatomy.

I think you doing the first sketch first, and then use design doll as a fact check sort of thing not only results in an anatomically somewhat more accurate illustration but it also helps highlighting where do you lack and need improvement. I think this is very important, because when you just look at references or watch other people speedpaint, you tend to think "oh yeah, I think I can sorta at least do that", but when you get down to it you might get lost in the details and end up botching it - at least I often find myself stumbling on relatively easy things myself because of plain oversight like that.  

The flow of my original sketch was absolutely wrong - Harry's spine bended in a way that, while it's absolutely possible to do so, it looked awkward and uncomfortable. His head was positioned alright, but in on itself, it was too big for his body, even for a 10 year old.

His left hand, holding the ice cream was raised way too close to his face, and on second sight, I felt like I made it look like his left arm is somehow touching his torso from elbow all the way up. His right arm looked very stiff, and of course, both hands looked pretty bad (and also stiff) but that was a mistake I was aware of - I spent a good amount of time trying to fix them, but to little success. This is what I've got right now after some self-checking:

(this is supposed to be an illustration for The Vanishing Glass, Harry is in the zoo looking at reptiles):

I'm about ten seconds in the trailer and already screaming YOU CAN NOT APPARATE OR DISAPPARATE WITHIN SCHOOL GROUNDS!!!  If you look through the comments, there are already several people who commented about the same thing as well, and the video is online for its second hour on my clock 

Btw, the HYPE is real right now, even I am getting caught up in this. I mostly disliked the original Harry Potter movies, absolutely despised Cursed Child with an everlasting passion,  but Fantastic Beasts 1 was absolutely awesome, so I can't wait to see what the second one holds. 

Such a good time to be a Potterhead, isn't it! 

God, I think I am improving backwards, this is for real.

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I tried to illustrate a moment in PS's first chapter. I thought it would be a funny idea that while Vernon is questioning Petunia about the Potters and what Harry's name was in the evening while watching TV, Dudley might actually spot an owl neither his parents do. I had JKR's idea in mind, that Dudley's early development was basically because of bad parenting... So, while he was this tiny maybe it's okay to portray him as a baby with wonder and curiosity.

 

I considered him pointing at a transformed McGonagall, but decided against it at the end. 

So, I am working on something new (it's already terrible! ) and I know I'm veeery late to the party, but I discovered these "asmr" videos where peeps put together ambience to fit a scenery - and mind you there are Harry Potter themed ones.

I always thought ASMR just meant cringey people whispering dumb crap into their mics, but appearently I was thankfully mistaken! 

They are great to listen to when drawing, and hey - even if I accidentally close the tab it doesn't matter where I left off 

For example, here is a potion class with Professor Snape. Just remember to be quiet, I heard he can turn nasty easily when you misbehave... 

And here is the study hall (incidentally, Prof Snape was assigned to watch students in here once, too), if you need to study or research 

There are a ton to check out, so if you need some cool background noise, just check out the related videos! 

So, these past few days (it's slowly an entire week now) I've been so stressed out, my stomach is cramping constantly and I'm having hot flashes. I've been thinking, how nice it would be to give (or receive) a nice, warm backhug, full of love and care and peace. 

I blame these aformentioned sentiments above as the sole culprits behind this something I threw together in less than an hour. 

Avert your eyes, it's bad (as usual!)

There are 16753264573254278 things I'm unhappy about this pic, but to keep my motto from Inktober - I won't get anything done if I just sit on everything for an entire month.

So, this is a quick emotional snapshot, I guess.

Should I even upload this on devi?