The (Almost) Twelve Days of Christmas & Harry Potter

Howdy Folks, hope that you are all doing well, and having an excellent Holiday Season, so far. Sorry about the hiatus for about a month, but schooling tends to get in the way of that sometimes. Anyways, I have been working on a little series for the Christmas season entitled the 12 days of Christmas. I know what you folks are thinking: "boy that's an original idea," in a snarky and sarcastic way. Oh well, I've come up with something I think you kind readers might enjoy. While you folks are waiting for that, here's a hand-drawn slide show that I did for a music class recently. It was about the scores and the composers of the Harry Potter film series. It might not be my best work, but I hope that you enjoy it.

Cheers,

A. Taylor

Happy Holidays!

Further Exploration

 I've been still doing some test runs with my new Micron pen and this first drawing is based off of a hovercar from a book that I recently finished called The Search for WondLa, by author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi. It is a great book and so is the one that follows it called A Hero for WondLa, I highly recommend them.

This next drawing is of one of my favorite characters, Severus Snape from Harry Potter. Granted this one isn't finished yet and he isn't dressed in his professorial robes, but I thought that it would be interesting to draw Snape in civilian clothes and lost in thought, so to speak. I'll be posting the finished product up here soon.
This last drawing was just a little character that I doodled one day and just inked it with the Micron.
Right-o, thanks for enduring the rambling, I'll have something official up here soon, with any luck.

Keep a sharp eye out...

The Tardis is Cool & So is Quidditch

 I had recently bought a Micron brand drawing pen (with a point of 01, for those who are curious) and, instead of the usual dip pen and ink, I decided to take the Micron for a test run, so to speak. This first scribble here is just a sort of mash-up of my favorite things about one of my favorite television shows, Doctor Who, so I just sort of made up my own version of the main character, The Doctor, with his trusty sonic screwdriver and a shortly-lived fez. The colored bits in this drawing were done with a Sharpie marker and a fine-point Sharpie pen (red for the tartan design on his coat and blue for the bulb of the sonic screwdriver).

This next drawing was just one of my all time favorite books when I was growing up, Harry Potter. I could go on and on about it and how just bloody awesome and inspiring it was, but that's for another time. Granted, it might not be a good version of the Boy Who Lived, but, like I said, it was a test run. This drawing was painted with watercolor and I used red Sharpie pen to emphasize the red stripes in Harry's sweater (and it might look like his sweater is red and white, but I swear I meant for it to have the Gryffindor colors, and sorry, in advance for the sort of ovular frame around Harry, it's a bit wonky, I know).

Keep a sharp eye out...

Winter Days & Potter Ways

 At the present time, when typing this message at least, there is a ridiculous amount of snow bombarding where I live, in bucket fulls, it seems. This will be a considerably short message, but I thought that some actually "new" doodles were in store for this set of scribbles. These doodles are inspired, as the title proclaims, from the Harry Potter series, which I read obsessively when I was a kid, and still enjoy them to this day, along with the movie series. The first is a small doodle of one of the goblins (now that I think of it, he kind of looks like Count Orlok from Nosferatu) from Gringotts Wizard Bank, and I was just playing with the idea of the chairs that they sit in at the bank, just scuttling about like Thing from the Addams Family. The next one is of my favorite character, Rubeus Hagrid, the amiable gamekeeper of Hogwarts School. Both drawings were done with a dip pen with waterproof black ink. Right-o, that's it, for now, until next time...

Keep a sharp eye out for my next post.