My dear friend [personal profile] veridian_dair is a wonderfully talented artist. She's been the one to motivate me to get back into art, myself, and I've been having a great time with it. One day a month or so ago, she asks me, "If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?" I didn't even have to think about it - "Elizabeth Swann."

And so, she embarked on a weeks-long effort to produce the following artwork for me, using a recent picture of myself and the AWE promo poster. I'm blown away by it, and I know you all will be too!



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Title: Mine
Rating: G
Genre: Slashy
Characters: Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Medium: Pencil and charcoal
Notes: Thanks to Dan Radcliffe and Alan Rickman for being wonderful models! Also, [personal profile] calanor was kind enough to write a drabble inspired by this drawing - and it's lovely! She captured the mood perfectly. Please take a minute to go read!



Mine )
Title: Dark Embrace
Rating: G
Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Medium: Colored pencil and charcoal, minor color correction in Photoshop
Notes: This is all [personal profile] veridian_dair's fault, for encouraging me to pick up my pencils again - thank you! :)

I'm ever so pleased that ObsidianEmbrace was inspired enough by this image to write a story based off of it! Please take a moment to go read The 25th of December, which was a wonderful Christmas present (despite not being at all Christmassy)!

As a result of OE's inspiration, Dark Embrace was featured on the IJ community hp_advent which features art that correlates to The 25th of December.



Dark Embrace )
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