The Colourful Witch

*Wizarding World Illustrations* Commissions are CLOSED Patreon: patreon.com/TheColourfulWitch Instagram: the_colourful_witch

[the-colourful-witch]

🍃Neville Longbottom 🌿

Another super fun redraw🥰✏️ I love this guy so much, and he’s such a great character! The thing I love most is his character arc, where he really becomes his own person, and follows his passions. I like to imagine he went out and became an accomplished Herbologist, researching many kinds of unknown species of plants, and writing books about them, then returned to Hogwarts to teach later, when he grew tired of the travelling. And all those students at Hogwarts would ask him questions about his travels, and his adventures with Harry Potter, and “Is it true you killed You Know Who’s snake with a sword??” to which he would look them dead in the eyes and say; “that son of a bitch had it coming.” Imagine the looks on their 11-year-old faces to see the teacher who sings lullabies to the plants curse Voldemort in dead seriousness. Brilliant, just brilliant⭐️

So, yeah, give it up for Neville 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Old version, which I still love. He’s such a cute lil’ bean🥰

[the-colourful-witch]

Ginny Weasley

A redraw of an old favourite. When I started my blog, I drew Ginny, and she is still one of my favourites. There's just so much character to work with when it comes to Ginny. She's a real bad-ass; confident, fun, brave and opinionated. If there's one thing the new HBO series should change from the films, it's giving this girl the gusto she deserves ⭐️

I had a lot of fun exploring some new outfit ideas for Ginny. She's got that cool 90's/early 00's thrifty style, and she makes a lot of her own clothes. As someone who grew up without ever getting anything new, she would learn to be crafty from a young age. Remaking her brothers' old clothes to fit her better, or to make something new out of them entirely.

And if there's one thing I loved reading about her, it's that she would play Quidditch without her brothers, nicking their brooms from the shed in the garden to practice without them teasing her about it. In the end, she became the only Weasley to go pro after Hogwarts. That's playing the long game, and I respect that :)

Let's be honest: Ginny Weasley is way too cool for Harry Potter, and we all know it.

The old version I did two years ago: Still a really good one, I love it! I like to think of this one as her 13-year old self, as opposed to the 16-year old I drew this time.

[the-colourful-witch]

*Awkward entrance...*

Hi.... I'm still here :)

It is now January, and I was last online in August. (yikes) I'm sorry I didn't let you know I was going to disappear for a while. The summer months were tumultuous for me, marked by numerous changes. I got a new job, just for one year, where I work on a sailing boat. Life at sea is always moving and very social. Add to that a dreadful lack of cell service and wi-fi, and you've got yourself a forced phone detox.

That's pretty nice, I'm not going to lie. I was happy to escape my bubble, and I'll enjoy the rest of the year as well. I do still want to take my art career seriously, but I am going to make some changes. For example, fan art will have to take a little step back to make room for other things, but I don't plan to stop drawing our beloved WW guys and galls. I love them, and you, too much <3

Let's make 2026 a nice year, with lots of good art and hope for a better future. I look forward to it!

For now, I hope you like my new #Meettheartist challenge for 2026! It's my favourite January tradition, going on 7 years now. This one is probably the most experimental so far, but i really like it! I love working with scrapbook styles :)

The old ones are right here:

Nice to see my preferred colour palette never really changes... (Didn't even notice lol)

[the-colourful-witch]

hi hi i have a weird question…what font did you use for toothpaste’s name on your wiwhw cover?? i love that funky little Y so much!!

Hi! Sorry about the late response, I was offline for a bit.. But I looked it up for you. I love that funky Y too, it's cute <3

The font is: Berlin Sans FB Demi Bold on Clip Studio Paint. I'm not sure where I found it, if it was already on the app or not. But if I did find it on the internet, it was from DaFont, a cool site for fonts :) Hope it's useful!

[the-colourful-witch]

Gabrielle Delacour

Fleur's younger sister. In the books, she was about 8 years old during the Triwizard Tournament. I drew her as an 11-year-old, when she just began her schooling at Beauxbatons. I wanted her to resemble Fleur a great deal, but still be different. She worships her older sister and has adopted a lot of her romantic flights of fancy, but is a bit more shy. She is nervous around new people and struggles with making friends at first, but as she grows, she becomes more confident in her skin and chooses to be around people who make her feel at ease. I liked working on her outfits. She loves colour, especially pastels, and wears a bow with every outfit. Gabrielle likes picking pretty outfits and dressing up, and prefers a floral motif over a boring one.

She's just adorable <3 I hope you like her.

[the-colourful-witch]

A little OC wip :) Thinking of adding a background 👀🎨

[the-colourful-witch]

The FF Chronicles

Committing looks a lot like plotting….✍🏻

[the-colourful-witch]

The Wading in Waist-High Water chapter headers!

To top off this wonderful book-binding project, I made chapter headers. The book is cleverly split into weeks, every week being a theme for the Bake Off competition, so I thought it would be fun to illustrate that fun recipe book they use in the show.

I really like the addition of the chapter headers. They really give the story that little something extra, and make you very, very hungry. I was constantly craving sweets when I drew those cakes and chocolates :) I'm probably not the only one who always craves cake when watching Bake Off! You'd have to be a robot not to ...

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[the-colourful-witch]

The Wading in Waist-High Water dustjacket!

This was my favourite part to make for the WIWHW bind I made with Laura. The dust jacket!

I had a blast working on this. It was the perfect excuse to create a rom-com inspired book cover, like those contemporary romance novels we've all seen on the shelves, with the cartoony characters (and the absolute filth between the covers, which is ironic, and slightly problematic, but that's a whole other topic.)

I really love the back of the dust jacket. It's got that cosy baking feel, and I thought the little hearts drawn into the flour dust was a fun little indulgence :)

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2999148

[the-colourful-witch]

Wading in Waist-High Water Character Portraits!

For the amazing bind I made with Laura from @ldm.binding (Insta), I created character portraits to go into a fun little fold-out insert for the book. We have 8 contestants: Arthur, Rubeus, Kingsley, Lucius, Mary, Peter, Pomona and of course Remus <3 The two judges: Minerva and Albus The charming Bake Off hosts: Lily and Sirius The Bake Off staff: Poppy (First Aid) and Severus (cameraman)

And finally, the moral support: Marlene, James and Dorcas

Link to the AMAZING fic Wading in Waist-High Water:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[the-colourful-witch]

A 'Wading in Waist-High Water' reveal!

I have been sitting on this amazing collaboration for a long time now! Somewhere last year, I started a super partnership with book binder Laura from ldm.binding (Insta)! We worked on a bind for 'Wading in Waist-High Water' by colgatebluemintygel on AO3.

If you don't know it, it is a lovely Wolfstar fanfic about the Great British Bake Off. I created a bunch of artwork for the bind, and Laura put it all together into a super fun bind! There's gorgeous endpapers, a creative typeset with text messages (which must have been a b*tch to edit) and extra inserts with some of my illustrations. This is the first book binding collab I've done, and I loved it so much! Another is coming as well... but I don't know when I'll be able to share that one. But it will be another Wolfstar fic, and an adorable one, too!

So! The reveal!

I made the dust jacket illustration, the chapter headers and a set of character portraits, as well as the Marauders band poster (the WIWHW edition). Laura did the gorgeous bind (I mean, look at those headbands!!!) and printed everything out to go inside the book :) A book made with love from the author Colgatebluemintygel, Laura and me. I hope you like it, too! I absolutely love this bind, and will cherish it for the rest of my life <3 Of course, remember that fanfiction is not meant to be sold or distributed for profit. We made these for personal use only. I will make another post with the illustrations I made, but this INCREDIBLE BIND deserved its own stage!

[the-colourful-witch]

The FF Chronicles

Spend the whole weekend overthinking my fic, and now I'm writing again. Who thought this was going to be fun? Not me...

Just kidding, tho, I love writing my story. It feels a bit strange to do so, because the characters have been living in my head and in my sketchbook for years. I came up with my first OC when I was 13, and ten years later, I'm writing her story, along with the one for my second OC, who has also existed for a good four years. There is no pressure at all. I just want to write a first draft and see if it can become something :) I read a quote the other day that said, "In order to make it good, it first has to exist." So I'm making this fic exist. And I already look forward to the editing phase. In the meantime, here is a sketch for my oc's: Abigail and Astrid. The fic will feature both their pov's, because their stories will intertwine.

Instead of writing, I've been drawing them all these years, and I just have to push through and start writing the damn thing. The struggle is real!

Extra sketches: outfit explorations!

[the-colourful-witch]

Fic writing update:

Two chapters in, and it feels like a huge brain dump, but I might be getting somewhere. In the meantime, I'm listening to the complete discography of Talking Heads, and it does help with the flow of writing. They're encouraging me: keep typing, you silly goose!

[the-colourful-witch]

I'm going to do a 100th attempt at finally writing my OCs' fic... I've tried many times over the years, but I've never managed to complete a first draft. The story is a bit ambitious, but I finally know how I want it written...sort of? (She said cautiously...) Wish me luck! <3

[the-colourful-witch]

👓Anthony Goldstein👓

Ravenclaw boy Anthony Goldstein, distantly related to Queenie Goldstein :)

I had fun with his design, I wanted him to be this slightly mysterious, slightly rebellious type of guy. The one that doesn’t like school very much, is a bit of a loverboy and reads dead, gay poetry in his spare time 📖✨

Drawing minor characters has been really fun, and relaxing to work on. They’re all a bit obscure, so it’s fun to make up my own stories for them 🙃

I hope you like them too! And if not, well, then we disagree 😎⚡️

[atalienart]

idk, I'm so fed up with Al that I had to get it off my chest...

I hate Al, I hate stupid prompted images that flood every space. I hate Al popping up every time I open anything on the internet. I hate people who pretend that prompting is such a skill and so much work but are scared to actually disclose they used Al for their stupid images and text. What are you scared of? I hate people who think writing "make me a ..." makes them a creator of anything. I hate people who think generative Al is an improvement and innovation. It's not! The fact that something is new doesn't make it good! Do you know viruses? There's always a new one at the corner.

Can't you see it? It makes you dumber with every use. Your creative skills decline with every command you give to a machine. Your communication skills deteriorate every time Al writes an email for you or you talk to your virtual girlfriend. Your ability to decide about yourself shrinks every time you ask a machine what to do, what to buy, what to say. Your critical thinking vanishes (well, assuming you even had any to begin with) whenever you ask "grok, is it true?". Whenever a computer does homework for you, whenever it writes an essay for school (which you won't even proofread) or spits a picture you were supposed to make yourself for a class, you become more stupid and less skilled. It won't make you into a good writer or artist just as watching work out videos won't give you muscles.

And you mock people who don't want their brains to rot, who maintain their values, who don't want to destroy their integrity and planet, who improve their talent and skills and spend their time actually thinking and learning stuff.

You can't even see how big corporations fuck you hard and slow every time you pay them to improve their Al monster, dangling colourful pictures before your eyes like a cat toy, cackling seeing your pupils blow wide. They promise you money and lure you with a vision of fame that those pathetic, broke artists will never see in their worthless lives. But you will. You'll have it all! Just feed their wallets with your money and databases with yourself and turn off your brain. You really think you'll have money and fame? Who will ever see your pretty pictures under millions of other pretty pictures? Who will read your book, when John Pickle published 30 only yesterday using Al? Who will watch your great movie when someone else has already made one with their own face and now they're kissing their favourite actor in space in a ship with too many details? Well, at least you can use someone else's voice to scam their family. If you get caught by the police you'll have your two minutes of fame before the Al erection supplement commercial rolls in :)

Al is here to stay! Yeah, like the putrid smell of your rotten brains.

[the-colourful-witch]

This post perfectly sums up why we're so FED UP with AI already, and why everyone should be concerned by how much AI is taking over our lives. Also, fuck that Google Ai function. I want to Google something, not have Google spit information in my face that they 'suspect' will help me. Let me search at my own goddamn pace!

[the-colourful-witch]

😎 Michael Corner 😎

What is this? Multiple characters in one week?! Who is this? ⚡️

Well don’t get used to it, but it’s still great! 🙃

Here is Michael, Ginny’s ex (and first) boyfriend :) She does like her Quidditch players, doesn’t she, yet she is the one that went pro. Talk about a baddie🧡✨⚡️ I love Ginny so much🥰

And Michael is cool too, I guess✨