Ok, I’m sure you have never read me being like this.
Perhaps because I’d never felt like this.
So please, forgive me for overreact over this piece, as I’m trying to show you how happy I am with it, not so much with its result but, most of all, because I finally did it.

I remember last year, I had a talk with Sara (aka Evanesco75) when she was finishing her fanfic "Never Enough", as we talked about ideas for a new story.
Then I showed her a picture of the great artist Luis Royo as I said her that maybe someday I would make a Ron and Hermione version of it and that the original one could give her some inspiration for a new work.
Well, I don’t know how much of this picture will appear on her amazing new work "Of Blood and Magic", but you can have an idea how long it took for me to find the courage to do this art.

I have already showed you many times how my fixation in this couple makes me to see them everywhere and this is not the first time I make a Ron and Hermione version of some famous picture, but this one has a special meaning for me, not only because is over one of my favorite illustrations of all times but also because I only felt security on my skills with the pencils for doing it in this moment.
Although the image looks simple it took me about one month to make it, more hours in one work than any other fanart I have done till now, I think, so many details it has for its coloring part.

I finished it last October and my happiness afterwards, to have finally reach a dream, was so big that I decided to only post it by the end of the year as a reminder for me of this achieve and because I want to give it as a gift to all my friends here, HP lovers, specially those who like me, love an AU fanfic involving these two: it may have not a story for it written yet, but I think the picture tells it all!

This fanart was made in a 200gr A4 Canson paper with gouache, dry watercolor pencils and pastels sticks. NO PHOTOSHOP used.

I’ll have a break till next February, because it’s summer vacations here and I’ll be out with no computer, but I’ll have a new art post meanwhile, as an anonymous at LiveJournal community "hp_canon_love".
I hope you could see it as I hope everybody have a great time in the next holidays!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I started this work I’m showing you today more than one year ago, and like it happens with lots of sketches that are “in my drawer” (or ideas in my mind), they keep “asking” me to finish them, to accept the “critic” inside of me and just do the thing for having fun.
So I did this with this one, that I think highlights, in the best way, a characteristic of my work that some of my viewers, I noticed by the comments, haven’t noticed until now: I try to make them look like, by the light, the pose of the characters, as if they were an instantaneous photo from those old “olaroid” cameras.

A caption of a quick passing moment.

It’s a sequence scene of my last fanart posted here, "A Second Chance", from the same chapter of Kele’s (aka Buerain or Redblaze) "More than Memories" and I would like to dedicate it to my dear friend (and fanartist) Dove.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

I remember I've read sometime ago, here in my friends list page, someone who was saying she knew that artists use almost all the time references and to know them, could finish the magic of an art work.
My opinion is that the problem is not the public to know from where your ideas come from but how to transform these references in something that express so deeply your thoughts, your own style, recreating what was already created and changing it in something new to everybody's eyes.
You won't end the magic if this happens. It will be transformed.

Like I told you sometime ago, I've been working in old fanarts I've started for some scenes of an specific chapter of Redblaze(or Bluerain)'s More than Memories(for a while now ), and it's being hard to finished them because, apart from real life's problems, new ideas are always coming to my mind and I'm always putting the old projects aside. But this time, the idea for a new fanart that came to me was for this same chapter and I had it while I was reading a "Rolling Stones" magazine few months ago and I've watched a jeans advertising.

And today I'm showing to you how Calvin Klein helped me to make this Ron and Hermione's moment comes alive.
I hope you like it.

I'm posting today a project of four drawings I did for Rupert Grint’s Birthday, with no sites asking me for, a thing I should do for him and by myself so grateful I’m still by his gesture of to sign one of my drawings and saying he already had saw it.
I need to do this.

Gladly IceCreamman(RG.us) gave me the pleasure to host them in their gift that was sent to him, with a message also wrote by me.

“Life is what happen to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
John Lennon

As you’re getting older you also learn that sometimes life looks like a great mosaic made from little moments, people and things you love, all of them put together and forming who you are.
Although we’re apart by many things, different countries, cultures, languages, life stories, age and so on, I like to think that you and I have some parts of “our mosaics” formed by the same pieces: our love for this character, Ron Weasley, for art, music, movies and these girls from this site, Ice Cream Man, that support your career, working everyday to bring it to many fans and are great real friends of mine.
My first idea for my gift of this year, was to draw all the photos that were taken for Blag magazine, but unhappily life also makes you leave by its way lots of things you planed.
I think they are the blank spaces of the “mosaic”, where we couldn’t find the right piece to fill it, or even pieces lost with the passing of time.
These drawings I finished, look a little different of what I use to do. I made them while I was rediscovering a great artist that I admire, Dave McKean, a comic illustrator that has been working for a long time with the wonderful writer, Neil Gaiman.
I made them by his influence but, of course, in my way and capacity.
All of them are handmade, using different techniques: pastel, gouache, dry watercolor pencils.
Funny that while I was working, I discovered that this artist collaborated for the conceptual art of “Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkaban” and “Goblet of fire”.
Another common piece.
The lyrics I used came to me always with some relation with you.
Just one of them, “Good Riddance” by Green Day appeared at my iPod, while I was working and typed the world Life.

I made a “little change” and I think it turned perfect for a guy that is completing 21 years old.
Perfect to add to these drawings that I hope you could have with you, forever, as part of your “mosaic”.

Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.

It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf
of good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.

For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end is right.
I hope you’re having the time of your life."

Happy Birthday!

Lilly

August 2009

Great part of my friends already saw HBP movie by now, so it’s time to show to you a drawing I made specially for today, and I’m certain you will have fun to imagine Rupert in a way that, after watching him doing brilliantly Ron Weasley’s part, we all are sure now, we'll never see him in real life, maybe in a film…

When Karo, a staff member of Rupert-Grint.us(Ice Cream Man), asked me at the end of May if I could make a drawing as a surprise the others staff members and all the fans of the site to celebrate Ice Cream Man's 5th birthday, I didn't think twice.
Ice Cream Man site is part of my daily life, where lots of my online friends are. We don’t only share the same love for Rupert Grint but also for many other things. It always seems that the talk starts on him and ends with all of us speaking about music, books, movies, food, everything.
It is a place where Rupert’s fans also know that behind my art there’s a person, because I was always respected there not only as an artist that can eventually contribute to the site, but also as human being.
So, my first idea for the drawing came quickly for sure: to draw Rupert as an old fashioned ice-cream man, which was approved by Karo immediately.
The idea developed to the one that I’m giving to you today, a drawing based on the magnificent work of one of the most wonderful illustrators of all times, Norman Rockwell, and his work for the covers of the Saturday Evening Post.
Although it might look simple, it was hard to do it. Everything handmade including the fonts, like it was by the time of the magazine and also doing a foreshortening drawing, is never the most easy thing to do, but I really hope you enjoy it.
It was made with all my heart as I know their work is done there every day in the site!


Happy Birthday, Ice Cream Man!