~~ more pimpin'!!1

Omg, omg omg omg!!! I found a brilliant wonderful amazing yummy new fanartist & I think I'll now squee myself silly because.... I am squeeing myself silly!!1 *breathes*

Y'know, a lot of fanart is beautiful, but it doesn't feel like what I imagined -canon- characterizations would look like. I pretty much adore anything well-drawn, but there's just nothing like the happy glowy feeling of recognition one can get from the 'right' looking fanart. I think it might actually even have something to do with style-- some representations work better with some themes.

I think a realistic, more ornate style works well with characters like Umbridge, like Jerome Moo's killer portrait. I think its extreme attention to detail works partly because Umbridge is such an extreme, over-the-top looking character, so it's an achievement to make her look like a 'real person'-- and also makes her a lot creepier.

On the other hand... simple yet evocative line-art and children's-book young characters totally -work- for me the way a lot of older portraits of Harry, Ron & Hermione (and the other kids) don't. I love seeing them looking really -young- and innocent and mischievous and awkward. I just... it's the equivalent of boycrushing fic, which I'm pretty much addicted to. So yeah. Wheeeeee!!1

First of all, there's gredandfeorge's amazingly adorable H/D pic, which is probably what it'd look like if Harry & Draco really 'got over it' and made friends and stuff. Teeheee!!1 Omg, the tentativeness & the shyness and the boyish dorkiness. And her pajama!Harry just kills me with his too-long sleeves and his cozy scarf & omg, he looks like a really real (and really squeeeeeezable) boy, wahhh.

What really got me, though, was her ickle Ronniekins, 'cause WAH, I've been waiting for someone to draw him the way I see him-- y'know, as a scruffy messy boy <333333 And the combination of realism and cartoonish childishness in the style really just gives the feeling of Ron so wonderfully. He's all bony knees and dorky sweater and huge feet, yes!!1 <3!
    And I've seen a lot of Harry portraits of this sort, but this one just stands out 'cause he has this direct, frank look-- he doesn't look either too happy or too serious-- he just looks... somewhat wary but approachable, and that's so Harry, omg (AND THE HAIR!!).

The thing about (my) Harry is that he's like this by default: casually boyish, scrawny, sweet-looking. Not a Hero Type or a Sexy Loverrrrboy (meh). Though of course I can't resist a Darkly Glaring (or Wickedly Smirking) Harry, too... *sigh*.
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EDIT - Btw, if anyone wants to read a really (and I mean really) filthy H/D drabble I just wrote, feel free.
    lesselen writes Sirius/Remus like it's all dark mystery & seething poetry & broken glass.