#dtiyswolfstar

[sorenphelps]

my entry for @girlwithacrown‘s Draw this in your style challenge, enjoy!

i took way too much liberty with this concept but i really like the end result even tho they look more sad than initially planned.

[greywolfandmoon]

Reposting from insta - @girlwithacrown has hosted a draw it in your style wolfstar challenge, and here’s my take on it! Thanks for hosting, I look forward to more artists activities like this!

There are two things that haunt Remus Lupin. One is the full moon, the other is Sirius Black.

[duskglass]

NOTES:

when I saw the arc of lunar phases in the original composition my very first thought was to have Sirius positioned so that his face blocks out the full moon-- one of my favourite aspects of their relationship is how Sirius was willing to do absolutely anything to help make the transformations easier for Remus (no matter how dangerous/illegal it was) & I wanted to convey a bit of that with this illustration.

the symbol over Sirius is the alchemical sign for amalgamation (combining different elements/aspects together) because imo these two are strongest together & bring out the best in each other (and I love how they are just 100% ride or die & willing to trust each other implicitly even after over a decade apart, because at the end of the day their bond has always been unbreakable & Peter's Big Miscalculation was that he could ever truly turn them against each other and get away with it).

I also drew them older here (how i envision them in the timeline of the books) because post-Azkaban is and always has been my favourite era (but like... AU where they don't get needlessly killed off and/or shoved into creepy forced hetero romances ofc). not that I don't enjoy the Marauders era too, I'm just aaallll about that h/c & reconciliation & struggling to heal from their traumas together, so this pic is also sort of about that for me? wolfstar coming back together after everything they've been through and (finally) finding happiness/peace...!!

concerning tattoos-- on the one hand I do think Sirius would be into body modification like piercings & tattoos, and I could definitely see him inscribing things into his own skin while in prison just for something to do & in an effort to keep himself grounded, but on the other hand.... that doesn't really make sense given the extreme inhumane conditions of Azkaban (where tf would he get ink and needles while in a solitary confinement mind-prison?? like it's established that most prisoners are completely mad in the space of weeks so I really doubt there would be access to that sort of thing, or even the opportunity to request it) so I sort of split the difference and went with something more along the lines of scarification, as I find it a lot more plausible that he could have improvised something sharp without the need for ink or the level of precision required for tattoos.

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+ the raw inks for comparison:

I ended up doing quite a lot of overpainting on this piece (particularly at the top with the moons and cloud details) so I thought the contrast between the inks and final was especially interesting! I do a lot of my work with gouache but I rarely apply them opaquely over the top of brush inks & copics (except maybe as small highlights); I really like how that effect came out here.

(my insta is @duskglass!!)

[eleonorapoe]

Thank you, @girlwithacrown, for an inspiration! This is my first Draw This In Your Style Challenge ever and I had so much fun doing it :D Also, all my apologies to Sirius for his big head XD

[rosaart]

Remus and Sirius - unfinished dtiys from @girlwithacrown

[lunalovegoodart]

did this on Instagram for the dtiys by @girlwithacrown and I wanted to post it here as well