fanart, Graphorn

[ratcreature]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a graphorn
Media used: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, GIMP
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: This is the fourth in my magical creatures series, a graphorn encyclopedia plate this time. It looks rather weird because of the odd feet where you'd expect hooves, but the canon description in Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (p. 19) is "The Graphorn is found in mountainous European regions. Large and greyish purple with a humped back, the Graphorn has two very long, sharp horns, walks on large, four-thumbed feet, and has an extremely aggressive nature."

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Comments

[yvi]

Oh wow, very nice! I am especially loving the way you drew the face, that's some amazing work. Pretty!

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[goss]

WOW! How have I not seen these before? I love all 4!! Really cool idea, and very, very nicely executed! In this one I especially love all the detailed work you put into the textures, with the hatching on the creature's hair and horns, which works nicely against the surroundings. Awesome work! :D

[ratcreature]

Thank you. It's great to hear the crosshatching works for you. I'm usually too lazy for crosshatching (and thus not very practiced), but couldn't get around it for the book plate effect.

[odditycollector]

Nice! Great textures.

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[red_eft]

Ooh, very nice! I really like the light hatching on the clouds. Good job on the feet- they do, in fact look like thumbs.

[ratcreature]

Thank you. Clouds are really hard to render in ink, especially when you are not patient or skilled enough to really render full grey scales in crosshatch for everything.

[steammmpunk]

Oh, how delightful! Amazing work.

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[bluemeridian]

Nice! I'm drawn to the hind leg for reasons I am completely unable to articulate.

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[lampadiglobus]

That is awesome. I admire your detailed handiwork. I wish I had the patience(and skill) to draw.

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I glad you like it. I'm often too lazy to crosshatch or such, but there was no alternative here to get the book plate effect, so I had to. :)

[gnatkip]

Fantastic. You know this series of yours is my favorite thing ever. The hatching, the lines, the shoulders, the little rump, the irritated eyebrow, THE FEET.

[ratcreature]

Thank you, that is great to hear. They are a lot of fun to do as well. I'm slow but there may yet be more to come.

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

COOL! I love your magical creature drawings, they're so well thought out and the whole presentation (plate-style) makes it that much more interesting. I like how you blended in all the different things to make a convincing fantasy creature, it doesn't look like bits and pieces of different animals patched together but like something that actually does exist in HP land. Also, kudos for having the patience to draw all that fur, the texture's amazing.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad it works for you. And yeah, the fur took some hours. Also the life of my thinnest fineliner. Though actually the worn out quality it had in places towards the end worked quite well for fur.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is just amazing! I'd believe it was a page torn from a book!

(that so sucks, I really do not like the entitled direction Fandom is heading in.)

[ratcreature]

Thank you, I'm glad it comes across as a book page.

(I probably won't watermark all my images, when I don't really like the look, but b/c of the book design the magical creature series does not have my signature in the image itself, so if the picture ends up somewhere I didn't put it, viewers couldn't even trace it by googling my pseud.)

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I love the way you've framed it as an illustration plate from a book, and the very Victorian penwork.

[ratcreature]

Thank you!

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent. Lovely shading in the fur.

[ratcreature]

Thank you.

[argosy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's gorgeous!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it.