[Things Said and Unsaid: Harry and Voldemort]

[ansketil]

Here's my first piece of art for one of my favourite pairings: Voldemort/Harry. It's called Things Unsaid. I'm usually all about faces (as you will see below), so I wanted to try to tell a story with just bodies for a change. The colouring of this was absolutely ruined by scanning. Voldemort's pearly skin is too subtle for the scanner!
 

  

Below are three individual sketches that eventually turned the Harry Potter/Leo Tolstoy image pictured on the right, which I did for the hogwarts_elite "fandom mash-up" + Love and War themed challenge (tied for third place!).


  

On the left we have our hero, Prince Potsky. Pictured on the field of battle (with Prince Andrei's uniform from the film version of War and Peace). On the right is the villain, Prince Voldemov, who is pictured here with his particularly fine duelling pistol, which some call "The Death Stick". Dark Mark detail on his signet ring. This was based on an image of Ralph Fiennes in Onegin.



And finally we have Countess Lestrange, Ginevra Weslei and her brother Captain Weslei and his fiancee Lady Grangevna (I suck at faux-Russian names, lol).  I'm very pround of Ron here - he took ages to draw.

Comments

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The first one is more of what I'd call a fully-fledged piece. The rest are sketches that took a couple of hours at most.

*nods* I can see that. There's so much feeling and richness to the first one, while the others seem more fun and lighthearted.

A lot of it was subconscious, bubbling up from the stew of Voldemort/Harry stories I've been reading.

This certainly expresses the best of the genre.

Speaking of The Love Accident, what did you think of the most recent chapter? I was pleasantly surprised to see it remain strong and original (no physical transformations for Voldemort, hurrah!), with plenty of beautiful character development. I loved when Voldemort spat in Negura's face, breaking all of the wizarding taboos. I did think that the chapter was noticeably a bit rushed, though, which often happens whenever authors pay too much mind to their impatient readers. It could easily have been another few thousand words longer.