fanart, Gnome & Horklumps

[ratcreature]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a gnome & horklumps
Media used: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, GIMP
Rating/warnings: G, none
Notes/comments: This is the fifth in my magical creatures series, a gnome & horklumps encyclopedia plate this time. The canon description in Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (p. 21) is "The Horklump [...] resembles a fleshy, pinkish mushroom covered in sparse, wiry black bristles. [...] It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms. The Horklump is a favourite delicacy of Gnomes but otherwise has no discernible use."

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Comments

[laurajv]

that is so ridiculously adorable I can't stand it.

[ratcreature]

Thank you! Somehow even my garden pest drawings end up more cute than vile, LOL.

[gnatkip]

TENTACLESHROOMS! I completely did not remember tentacleshrooms existing, but your depiction is so striking and gorgeous and creepy. And I love the proportions of the gnome's body. And the underground cutaway.

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you like it! And relieved to hear the underground section works for you. I was afraid it might look too odd, but I needed the underground to show the earthworm hunting, and it is supposed to be an informational illustration after all.

I love the odd HP creatures. I could have never come up with tentacleshrooms on my own. Sadly horklumps don't seem to be very popular, despite being awesome!

Thank you

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, this is a very nice drawing.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Well done. Ugly buggers, aren't they?

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I think for these being garden pests I still ended up drawing the gnome fairly cute.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

Very nice! Do you count providing a link (at a rec newsletter, the quibbler_report) as distribution of your art? If not, I'd like to link to this. If you'd rather I didn't, no problem.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. And links are absolutely okay, and I'd be delighted to be linked in your rec newsletter. I also put it up on deviantArt with sharing enabled so people can embed my art, and recently I caved and got a Tumblr, so people can reblog my posts. I just don't want people to upload files themselves to their own spaces.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

Great! I'll add you to the list; thanks.

The Quibbler Report -- August 30, 2011

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User kellychambliss referenced to your post from The Quibbler Report -- August 30, 2011 (http://quibbler-report.livejournal.com/511756.html) saying: [...] keeper. (Remus Lupin/Lily Evans; PG) Blibbering Humdingers (Art): • drew Gnome and Horklumps [...]

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

I love your HP encyclopedia plates. Great job with this one too!

[ratcreature]

Thank you! They are a lot of fun to do too. I love drawing monsters (you have to worry much less about anatomy, LOL).