[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

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

beautiful art!!!!

You always have such expression with art. The first one with Harry and Voldemort, wow!

If you don't mind me asking, where do you have Children of Set posted? I would love to rec it in my journal!

[aleysiasnape.livejournal.com]

They look really good! And congrats for being tied in third place!

[pronker]

I am blown away by these -- the skin thing can be a nuisance when scanning, yes, but overall the entire batch of work looks great. A naive comment: it looks like them! And the Tolstoy xover is a remarkable bit of imagination. Was this pencils or watercolor pencils or ...

[caffeinatedkate.livejournal.com]

Voldemort/Harry? Well, I suppose it's no worse than Palpakin. :D

Lovely, lovely artwork and you've obviously put a lot of thought into it too.

[pink-siamese.livejournal.com]

You do such cool stuff. :-)

[luminations.livejournal.com]

You know I love the mashup (and voted for youuuuuuuuu even though you're my enemy... OMIGOSH OUR LOVE IS SO PALPAKINY)... that's a lovely Harry/Voldemort piece as well! I hate hate HATE how things don't translate over the scanner.

[elegyforziggy.livejournal.com]

I really should have looked at this delightful art before! They are all wonderful, but the first one--oh, the first! How emotive it is, how saturated with pain and longing, and how fantastically luminous Voldemort is! He's perfect, absolutely perfect, and his glowing white skin reminds me so much of The cave incident/love accident and its eldritch, yearning dark lord! And I really do thing he is entrancingly beautiful here, so spare and elegant in his nakedness.

I'm particularly fond of how you've hidden their faces. The technique really isolates them both, heightens their mystery, their agony and complicity. That Harry hides his face entirely isolates him from his partner as well, yet Voldemort refuses to be shut out, and turns his face down to him. Of course, that Harry's face, his identity, is entirely cloaked in darkness is very symbolically powerful.

A wonderful, gorgeous portrait!