Greetings, fellow muggles and wizards and witches! 🔮
This will be a fun and exciting new topic to share, because I thought we should go ahead and check out two of the newly art projects, for a special sneak peek. And if you guessed it’s Harry Potter…then you are absolutely right! I am working on two of the upcoming Harry Potter fan art drawings, and they will be one of my new Halloween art projects to share and post in October 2022.
Each of the Harry Potter drawings are illustrated on one of the most memorable moments in the history of Harry Potter, whether you have read it on page, and/or seen it on screen. Right now, I’m more focused on illustrating one scene from any of the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. However, if you noticed couple of the images of the drawings I’ve just shared at the beginning, they’re drawn in different art mediums. The first image is a full digital drawing illustration from the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The second image next to it will be a full watercolor drawing illustrating from the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
I think you can say that these two for each will be my second Harry Potter Halloween fan art project, after the first major fan art project I did from last year. It was the six illustrative drawings of Professor Lupin’s werewolf transformation scene from The Prisoner of Azkaban, where I have shared many of the working updates on the rough drawings to clean-up drawings, background paintings, and putting in full color to the final look. It’s funny, though I’m working on another Prisoner of Azkaban Halloween fan art, only for a different scene, but overall, it’ll be really cool to see it, whenever it’s finished, along with another iconic scene from The Sorcerer’s Stone, featuring one memorable character I’ve got to draw for the first time, so that’s very exciting ☺
For any readers out there, if you have never seen any of the Lupin’s Transformation fan art posts, either the updating topics and/or the main topic with all of the finished drawings, please feel free to check any of them out here at The Autistic Animator’s Desk.
Let’s check out and go over at two of the drawings, in chronological order, so we’ll start off with the first story, and then, we’ll move on to the third.
✨ Harry in Ollivander’s Wand Shop (The Sorcerer’s Stone) ✨
We’ll begin with this drawing, illustrating a powerful, iconic scene from the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. It’s a scene at Ollivander’s Wand Shop, where Harry purchases his first wind, and here we see Mr. Ollivander, the wandmaker, who discovers the magical powers behind the wand, right after it has chosen Harry as its owner. According to Ollivander, he realizes that Harry’s wand shares the very same magical powers with another wand…the wand that belonged to the very same wizard who killed Harry’s parents and gave him the scar…Lord Voldemort:
“I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather – just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother – why, its brother gave you that scar.”
Harry swallowed.
“Yes, thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember…I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter…After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things – terrible, yes, but great” (Chapter 5, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone).
Drawn on a third page of the mixed media drawing pad, in a horizontal view at 12 in. x 9 in., and it will be painted in watercolor, using the set of watercolor pencils. Even though this is drawn on the third page of the drawing pad, which it used to be new, but it also happens to be the third watercolor drawing to work on the very same pad, after the second one I have shared as a topic not too long ago. It was a Disney watercolor fan art on the film, The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and if you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out here at The Autistic Animator’s Desk. Needless to say, that this is the first Harry Potter watercolor fan art to work on this exact drawing pad, and my very first time illustrating this scene from the first book, only because, like I’ve just mentioned, it’s one of the iconic scenes in the history of Harry Potter.
Not only did you get my first fan art drawing of Harry getting his first wand at Ollivander’s Wand Shop, but you also get to see the character of Mr. Ollivander drawn in my stylized animation look for the first time. Down below you will see my very first sketch of Ollivander, drawn in blue pen on paper.
This character was actually pretty simple and fun to draw, and I was able to use my book copy of the first Harry Potter book, in order to draw and design Ollivander as how he was described by J.K. Rowling:
An old man was standing before them, his wide, pale eyes shining like moons through the gloom of the shop.
“Hello”, said Harry awkwardly.
“Ah yes”, said the man. “Yes, yes. I thought I’d be seeing you soon, Harry Potter.” It wasn’t a question. “You have your mother’s eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work” (Chapter 5, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone).
But of course, me growing up from watching the movies before reading the books, you can see bit of the animation caricature of the actor John Hurt, who played Ollivander in the Harry Potter films one, seven, and eight. That’s okay, though. I liked him as Ollivander, and he did a wonderful job. Of course, it’s very important for me, as an artist, to stay true to the source material, written in the books, the way J.K. Rowling sees her characters in her imagination. And it was also important for me to see what Ollivander would look like in my animation look, the way he would be drawn and designed, before I can get started on the watercolor drawing.
Ollivander is a genuine and unique character; I would say that he’s like Geppetto from Disney’s Pinocchio (1940). Geppetto loves making toys and puppets, and he takes really good care of them, and Ollivander is the same way. He makes wands, he takes really good care of them, and he always makes sure that they’re nice and tidy and ready to be sold by any young upcoming Hogwarts student who is ready to have his or her first wand.
The first section you just saw from the image has been finished, and that was the sketching and cleaning up the lines. I’ve already worked on the second section of the project by painting both Harry and Ollivander in color, and now, I’m still working on painting the first half of the wand shop background, which I already begun with it since Wednesday.
🐀 Peter Threated by Sirius and Remus (The Prisoner of Azkaban) 🐀
Moving on to the second fan art here, as you can see illustrated from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In the drawing, you see Sirius Black and Remus Lupin pointing out their wands directly at Peter Pettigrew, threating to kill him off, after he was revealed to be Ron’s pet rat, Scabbers in disguise. They were avenging for James and Lily Potter, for Pettigrew was the responsible for the betrayal and leading their deaths by Lord Voldemort. However, Harry Potter stops Sirius and Lupin, believing that his dad wouldn’t want to see two of his best friends to be killers, and confronts them that they should take Pettigrew up to Hogwarts, so he can be sent off to Azkaban and clearing off Sirius’ name:
“You should have realized,” said Lupin quietly, “if Voldemort didn’t kill you, we would. Good-bye, Peter.”
Hermione covered her face with her hands and turned to the wall.
“NO!” Harry yelled. He ran forward, placing himself in front of Pettigrew, facing the wands. “You can’t kill him,” he said breathlessly. “You can’t.”
Black and Lupin both looked staggered.
“Harry, this piece of vermin is the reason you have no parents,” Black snarled. “This cringing bit of filth would have seen you die too, without turning a hair. You heard him. His own stinking skin meant more to him than your whole family.”
“I know,” Harry panted. “We’ll take him up to the castle. We’ll hand him over to the dementors…He can go to Azkaban…but don’t kill him” (Chapter 19, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban).
Drawn in digital drawing, on Autodesk SketchBook software, at the scale size 1460 x 1080. This drawing will be the second Harry Potter fan art to feature the character of Peter Pettigrew, since the first time I’ve drew Pettigrew for a couple of the six fan art illustrations of Lupin’s werewolf transformation scene. He’s seen in the first drawing, when he’s handcuffed by Ron and Lupin, with the approaching of the full moon; he’s in the second drawing, as the transformation begins with Lupin uncontrollably shaking; and appears in the fifth drawing, only as a rat, but you can see his tail, as he escapes, with Ron’s hand sticking out and laying on the grass.
Also, it will be my first time having to do a full background painting of the Shrieking Shack in digital painting. The first drawing I have featured the Shrieking Shack was a watercolor artwork of Lupin holding on to Sirius, while trying to stop him for about to grab Scabbers out of Ron’s hands, as illustrated from the eighteenth chapter in the third book. It’s titled: Lupin Trying to Stop Sirius, and you can find the full post of this drawing in the link down below. In the case for this drawing in digital drawing, I’ll be approaching my design of the Shrieking Shack more differently, in which it’s in a different angle. When I first started on the rough layout sketch of the Shrieking Shack background, after sketching out three characters, I used Google research and looked at the screenshot from the film for the inspiration but have to come up my own drawing design.
In the book, the Shrieking Shack was described as an empty room with torn wallpaper, broken windows, fully wrecked furniture, with wooden parts are ripped apart, and there’s dust everywhere, which I drew lots of dust around the wooden floor. It has to look scary, creepy, and also, very old, and you can definitely see that this was never done by ghosts. The destruction was caused by Lupin himself, whenever he transforms into a werewolf, during his time at Hogwarts without hurting anyone there:
It was a room, a very disordered, dusty room. Paper was peeling from the walls; there were stains all over the floor; every piece of furniture was broken as though somebody had smashed it. The windows were all boarded up (Chapter 17, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban).
As it turns out…I have just finished working on this project yesterday…so it’s done! However, I’m just only showing you all the rough drawing to give you all a special look of it. Don’t worry! The full completed drawing will be on this blog soon by October 😉
So, which one of the Harry Potter fan art drawings are you excited to see finished? Harry in Ollivander’s Wand Shop watercolor drawing from The Sorcerer’s Stone? Or Peter Threated by Sirius and Remus drawing in digital drawing from The Prisoner of Azkaban? Please share your thoughts in the comment box down below.
I’m very excited for these two projects, and I can’t wait to share it each in their own upcoming topics for this blog this October! 😊
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