You guys are my witnesses this started out much less... unfortunate than how it eventually turned out! But oh, well. 

As it can be seen I gave up not even halfway into the background. Things aren't looking up.

But hey! Happy march the 15th to all of you wonderful Hungarian brothers and sisters!

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i have no excuses

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! 

Well, it's finished.

I had to take a 2 day break (otherwise I swear this would have been up on Friday if not before), and I somehow managed to lowkey forget how I did the bricks, so the left side, which was completed as an after thought is vastly inferior to the original right.

The left side in general is just challanged overall anyways: her right hand looks good (altough this might look weird, as I drew her hand in big size then basically just shrunk it with the transform tool...) but the left is just.... unfortunate. Oh, well! It's all said and done.

But emphasis on the "done" of course! 

Full res only for the brave at heart! 

On deviantart:

This is basically the second part of my previous drawing, same Snape and his daughter theme. I don't know what happened to the left side of the drawing, it was going so well on the right 

So, work just got pretty crazy, my coworker simply refuses to work so I have to do everything...? All in all, there was some minor hiatus in terms of creating stuff, but I did make some progress here and there ~

This atrocity, for example, is in the making (ignore my comments to myself on the left):

One of his hands are noticably more yellow than the other, crazy coloured hair as always, and what's wrong with his right hand anyways, is it cramping up? So, to sum it up, a perfect representative artwork from yours truly, and it's not even halfway done!