HL brainrot but now it’s MY characters ✌️✨ 📸 virtual photography + storytelling 🖤 Larissa Shelby & Silas Nott… yeah I’m not okay - “You really don’t fight fair, do you?” “Not when it comes to you.” 30+ insta: l.shelby1875 ao3: Sunkissedtrampolin3
After Fig passed away Reagan had nowhere to go and Sebastian’ s guardian was gone. Professor Weasley suggested them spending the holidays together. So Reagan accompanied her used to be best friend. But things changed after the events of the fifth year. Sebastian grew distant, was moody and clearly fought his inner demons and struggled with guilt, shame, remorse. Sometimes he vanished for hours to brood, pushed Reagan away with harsh answers or ignoring her completely.
Sebastian was used of being judged, critizied, being yelled at, misunderstood and being blamed for mistakes and decisions he made. So he started to build a wall around him since he was a child to protect himself of getting hurt. But deep down he craved closeness, real closeness. He wanted to feel understood, to be worthy and to feel being enough the way he is. But the saddest part is, that he was used of being abandoned by the people he cared about.
But Reagan was still here. After everything he did, after everything he said. She was patient with him, didn’t judge him and understood him more than he did himself sometimes. She gave space and didn’t push him but was not too shy to stand up against him if he snapped. And she saw him. Every part of his soul, the pure and the broken ones. And yet she hadn’t left him.
This was exactly what scared and overwhelmed him. She was able to handle him even tho sometimes he could barely handle himself. He wanted her closeness and yet he pushed her away. Because he learned that closeness meant to get hurt, to get abandoned, to lose someone he cared about. So he told himself that it would hurt less if he cut her off first before she would realize what kind of monster he is, or at least it was like he saw himself, and leave him like everyone else did. Of course he knew deep down that it was a lie. But he couldn’t burden her with his darkness. She deserved better than this, than him.
And while he was struggling with his own intense personality Reagan suffered too. Because she worried and cared about him. And that made him feel even more guilty.
On one evening, after he was away again, Reagan decided that she had enough and wouldn’t watch anymore how he further destroyed himself. When she went outside she spotted him on the stone wall behind the house. It was raining. She wanted him to come inside. He didn’t react. When she touched his shoulder he snapped out of his thoughts and pulled away, avoiding her gaze. Without a word he started to walk away. Reagan confronted him with his behaviour and told him that she had enough. He snapped, retorted that no one had her to be here, no one forced her to stay and he didn’t need a babysitter. This was the moment Reagan ran out of patience. They starred at each other and the next second she slapped him. After the first shock faded Sebastian raised his hand and placed it on his burning cheek. Reagan’s hand stinged from the contact.
Usually he would have given her a defiant glare, full of fire, pride and stubbornness. But not this time. He couldn’t look at her. He wanted to apologize, to tell her how grateful he is that she still had faith in him, that she still stood by his side and how much he cared about her. But the words got stuck in his throat. For once he wasn’t selfish. He told himself it would be easier this way, hurt less. So if she would walk away now he had to let her go. For her sake…
Alright, so this style is basically the opposite of the last one. No more “less is more“ and instead very much “more is more and also add glow while you’re at it“. This time featuring @mintyme101’s Ember (help I can’t tag you) & @syrooo’s Seojun.
First thing that stands out with Lotusbubble’s art is the rendering. Everything is very polished but never feels muddy because the values are super controlled. Lights are bright, shadows are clean, and there’s always a clear separation between the two. No guessing games, just confidence.
Which I, unfortunately, do not have (yet… ever… we‘ll see)
Rendering-wise Lotus’ style actually reminds me a lot of Frostbite’s but the reason I chose her later in the study is because of her color usage which made absolutely no sense to me at the start of this journey.
Lighting is doing a LOT here. She almost always uses a strong light source and layers glows on top, especially in the hair and along the edges of the body. It gives everything that slightly magical, whimsical look. Also… subsurface scattering, my old friend. Very visible in the skin, especially around shoulders, noses, and fingers - basically everywhere light can pass through. I tried, okay?
This time I started with the boy, meaning Seojun was my first victim. I tried using backlights in a deep maroon to match the Gryffindor tie, and I used, like, six different colors on the white shirt. Never done that before. Loved it.
I heavily abused the Add layer on top of everything to match the background. I already knew that trick from Artmelxna, but while Melxna uses soft, bright lighting, I went for neon reds and greens and darker tones of those where the light wasn’t reaching.
Ember was next, and since I could finally draw an elf/fae/pointy-eared being, I went full whimsical mode (look at my username, I was doomed the moment Ember got submitted)
With her, I also used an Add layer to highlight the skin for the first time. I think it slaps. Will definitely use that again.
Short conclusion: Use an absurd fuckton of colors from the background and maybe think about the background beforehand (points aggressively at past self)
The guardedness that's become second nature to him dissolves when they're alone. The way her fingers find his tie and tug him down like she's claiming something. And when he leans in, his breath catches as he breathes her in. The rest of the world fades because this feels like the only honest thing he has.
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