>VERBOSE

Sneak a peek into the upcoming illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

I rather like this artist's concepts and style. (Harry is not shown on that page, but I can only assume it's he who is currently gracing the front page of the artist's website.) It gives me some hope for what his Severus may look like. Certainly I like these pictures much better than those new cover illustrations that were going around a while back, the ones that still had Harry looking oddly very juvenile even after OotP.

For a minute I had faint hope that the US version of the new edition of the first book would also bear the title Philosopher's Stone, but from Scholastic's page it would seem not. Ah well, I guess they wouldn't want to damage recognition of it in stores or something, at this point. (Wow. First printing of SS, fifty thousand copies. First printing of DH, 12 million copies.)

I has a artses!!



This came in the second mail delivery today (being a different shape than the regular envelopes, I guess?). I actually squeed when I opened it. Young Punk by someoldcat! I has him and you doesn't, neener neener.

Thanks also for the cards from tjs_whatnot, pennswoods, qui_quae_quod and dixiebell12, and dementordelta! (hope I didn't miss anyone.)

(gaah, is LJ being teh debbil again and refusing crossposts...?)

Gord and I brought our iPad to Infinitus and tried to get as many people as possible to sketch on it in a simple art app. ( Here are the fascinating results (some NSFW): )

The artist of "Just This Once", one of the pieces I used on the buttons and CD labels for the Azkatraz meetup swag, has recently reposted the piece at deviantArt:


Lily + Severus: Just This Once by *comicalclare on deviantART

Making an RSS feed out of a search on deviantArt will feed you items which have that term anywhere in the whole deviation. That means you will get "news" items for things which have your search term in the artist comments or in the username itself, as well as the keywords. I have a feed set up for "Snape"; the false positives tend to mostly be other Harry Potter stuff (naturally). Sometimes I get photos people have taken in any of the various places in Britain called Snape (including at least one Snape Castle), which is vaguely amusing.

And sometimes... I get very incongruous things indeed: http://aeka-snape.deviantart.com/art/Oreo-128904204

Is there anywhere on the net one can still find hill_'s art? I have, like, one piece saved through sheer luck, but it's been frustrating reading posts from a year and a half ago (and on back; o woe, why did I not come into fandom sooner?) which are pathetically image-naked.

I wondered out loud a while back about what was the deal with drawing Severus as a Lion King lion. Several people opined there was a connection through Jeremy Irons. Well, if so, I think that's not the whole story, because now I've run across fanart of Sirius so drawn, as well as in My Little Pony style, which was the one that really weirded me out when I saw Snape drawn that way.

Don't get me wrong, I'm as amused by random crossover art as the next person (Starfleet School of Wizardry, The Matrix Has You, Severus, The New Ministry of Magic, Wizards in Black...), but dood, what gives?

In my great trawling search on DeviantArt (I'm somewhere in the high 15000s of 27000 results sorted by reverse date! woo!), I often come across Severus/Hermione art where Hermione's hair colour, rather than straight up brown, sure looks awfully red in tone.

Somehow, I can't bring myself to be annoyed by that...