Sing my muse

I became aware that I never posted the two last pieces I did for metamorfic_moon here on my own journal! So without further ado please find:

Title: Choir
Artist: hrymfaxe
Rating & Warnings: G and None
Prompt: Choir
Medium: Watercolour
Summary: After beating a retreat into the choir of a church Tonks and Remus disagree on their future strategy...
Artist's Notes: Two challenges here for me: the extreme perspective and creating texture and values with watercolour. This is not what I had decided on doing for this challenge, though it was an initial idea. But I fell ill and was unable to complete the other project. Thank merlin for back-up plans. ;)
( Choir )

Title: Fugitives
Artist: hrymfaxe
Rating & Warnings: PG13, for post fighting clean-up, nothing graphic.
Prompts:

I awake to see that no-one is free
We're all fugitives
Look at the way we live
Down here, I cannot sleep form fear, no

"Spies" by Coldplay

And "summer ball"

Medium: Watercolour and ink
Summary: What should have been a fun day, ends in weariness and doubt.
Artist's Notes: Still playing with watercolours. And backgrounds. Please bear with me.
( Fugitives )

And I submitted a few of the latest art pieces I've done for this great idea:

It's a fest of sorts, where artist submit art as prompts for writers to write stories to and vice versa. :D So if you have a story or a drawing that you would like to see illustrated or ficcified get ye over there! I already see a few stories that are very inspiring.

Way back when I announced this meme, I promised shimotsuki a drawble.. I have been terribly lax about getting it done, and I'm really sorry about that! And I wish I could say I had done it now, but alas. However, I come bearing a different gift, because as I sat down yesterday to start the drawble she asked for, I suddenly remembered a scene from one of her fics that I have always wanted to do, and then the muse carried me away.

( Remus and his teabag )

The other day bratanimus mentioned an art meme to me, and suggested I could do it.. So when you have looked, you can either congratulate her or take it out of her hide. ;) I didn't think I would be doing it actually, but seeing as I have now spent the last two nights filling it out, it seems I was very, very wrong. ;) The outline is taken from here. There you can also find links to many, many other (and loads more fun) versions of the meme on dA.

Still playing around with that ink... Does anybody know of any how-to books on ink drawing, or tutorials on the internet? I'm sort of fumbling around in the dark, and though that is enjoyable, because the results are rather surprising, it would be nice to have some guidance! :)

Anyway -

I recently went out to buy a fixative for my drawings, so the graphite won't smudge, once I have finished the image. (Of course I haven't used it yet on any of the drawings - there is always room for improvement.) While I was at the artshop (very dangerous place for someone like me) I noticed a display of inks... And I thought, "I think I will buy some of that too... And some brushes just for that, so I don't mix them with my watercolour-brushes..... And some special paper too!!" So, many art-supplies richer and quite some Kroner poorer, I went home. This morning I finally had a chance to test the ink as a drawing-medium. I almost didn't go to work, I was so excited about it - and I certainly scared my co-workers being far too happy, even if the jobs I was given today were extremely boring! If any of you know my previous work, you will no doubt have noticed that the amount of detail I put in the drawings is increasing at a very steep rate - and I am quite pleased with my progress with graphite. But I had begun to feel like I was loosing something, that you sometimes get from things being kept simple. I love to have flowing lines that move and make the object I am drawing moving. My precious Nerdanel drawing is an example of some of the early work, that I was beginning to miss. However I could feel that my new knowledge of how graphite could be used, wouldn't make it easy for me to go back. BUT it seems that ink will! Yay!! And it is a much, much faster medium to work with than graphite.. (also more unforgiving, but so far I can live with that). Below are some exercises I was doing to get a feel for the how the ink worked with me - and some of them turned out quite nice, if I do say so myself. ;)


Male torso. (Or did you already notice that? ;) )


A young Remus Lupin


A determined Caranthir. 

Yyyyaaaaaayyyy, I 'm so pleased I bought that ink!!! ;) :D Off to draw some more - there are birthday presents to be finished.