The lighting is great in this piece. I really like how you paint on your pictures, it is very unique and I don't think I have seen it done as well as you do it. There is a lot of noize in this picture (white spots in the dark) Have you thought about burning them a bit to make them less knoticable?

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"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. . . . Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Roald Dahl

Peace and Love

I noticed the spots when I scanned it, wanted to cover them in Photoshop but then I thought they might be useful as some kind of "texture". But for that the spots should be bigger, more intense, shouldn't they? Otherwise they look as if they were left there by chance, neglect.
Burn them. How do I do that? Is it a filter in Photoshop? (I don't want to put any more contrast, the lights will be burned no doubt ).
Thanks for your nice comments, as I always say "poverty is the mother of invention". Which means that I might have never put my brush on a photocopy like this if I were an expert in Photoshop (I have seen some great photomanipulations in DA ). Then again, when I was doing my Harry Potter series my art professor insisted on my "using brush and paint" no matter what (to prove I'm a true painter, y'know... ).

^{I don't know how you do it, but this is amazing! And I quite agree, they are the sexiest pair in slash x)}

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John 1965 - 2008
I love you brother

Oh, I did all of this stuff years ago, can't believe I even did so much! (but it was for my art school. So there you have it...).
I'm glad we agree on this "sexiest pair" thing. Two sexy men together. What else do you want in life?
(BTW, I can't stand the Snape/Harry pairing. Sexy as it is -and I have read some-hot-fanfiction indeed!- it turns my stomach. Snape should be with Lucius. Or Draco. Or Lily even. Not with his... his...SON!!!)

^{I'm glad you did so much xP
Ah yes well erm...I wouldn't mind being in on their action lmao
Hm, the Snarry thing just doesn't make sense to me. They just HATE each other, I know there's a fine line between hate and love but it just doesn't apply with those two. How is Harry supposed to get over his 'omg you killed my parents!!!' complex and how is Snape supposed to forget that Harry's father (who btw Harry is supposed to be the spitting image of) tried to kill him in a stupid prank? X(
...Wait, you think Snape is Harry's father?}

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John 1965 - 2008
I love you brother

First. What's Imao? Tell me now!
(Who wouldn't like to be the ham in a Lucius/Snape sandwich, eh? Oh my gosh, I hope my male friends don't judge me too harshly after reading this, I told them I was classy and of good taste!... )
Did Snape kill Harry's parents? (no, Snape was partly guilty of that)
Snape? In Cybele's Snarry fanfiction "If you are prepared" (the sexiest read I was talking about) Snape was supposed to be in love with James back then. James was supposed to have debauched him (pfffftt...). So it was only natural for Snape to fall in love with James' spitting image. Yes, Cybele, Cybele, she gives such fine explanations for everything, why Harry fancies Snape and vice versa, her Snape is so cynical and perverted and in love, her Harry is such a boy toy and sex slave and ready to be depraved, more girlish than a sex-hungry girl. All beautiful, romantic, cynical and dirty at the same time.
But... as I always say, it's a matter of taste.
Snape would only be with Lucius. And Harry with Draco. Period.
Actually... I wish Snape was Harry's father but he isn't, I'm afraid. Still, Harry COULD be his son. If only Lily hadn't chosen the wrong guy. See?

^{Lmao = laughing my arse of It's usally shown through this smiley
(Hey, who said it was BAD taste to want to be part of that sandwich? )
Well you know what I mean. He told Voledmort of the prophecy (or what he heard of it anyway).
Hmm...This is true. If it is, I hate James even more
I completely agree.
...Hmm, imagine if he was (I know JK said he's not, but still...) that would throw a spanner in the works}

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John 1965 - 2008
I love you brother

Lmao! Ha! Now I understand the need for abbreviations!
OK, here's another part of my philosophy in life: it's not BAD taste to want to be part of a Lucius/Snape sandwich. But it is bad taste to be too explicit about it and want to tell it to the whole world. To give all the "gory details" to the public, as if there's a contest of who's gonna be the most vulgar. I mean, if you have a site (or an account) you can do and say whatever you like, it's your show. But if you're in a forum where all kinds of people see you, trying to be the "spiciest girl in town" and the "queen bee" is only showing off. No taste in showing off, especially when you're not physically there. It's too safe to show off in the Internet, too easy, too cowardly.
(I have had some bad experience in fora, as you can tell...)
Ah, Snape being Harry's father, that would explain a lot...
Still, it's good enough for me if Snape sees him as the next best thing, or even as the impotent son of his dead rival. Snape is so furious that this boy could be his boy, that he could have raised him the way he wanted. That's what he tells Harry at the end of Book 6, "Practice practice practice, Harry! Don't be as useless as your father who got himself killed. Who let Lily die. You're my student, you should know better, boy!..."

^{Yes, because saying the whole thing can be tough on the fingers after a while
Well hmm, yes, I suppose the giving out gory details is bad taste. Especially if it's actually with a real live person How embarrassing to be told the gory details of that
(I can see you attacking those in forums )
Snape has a heart *sniffle* It would be really sweet if they get over their "I hate you" thing and learn to love each other as a kind of father and son, but yeah, never going to happen.}

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John 1965 - 2008
I love you brother

What does "tough on the fingers" mean? (and how do you feel being my new teacher of English???)
A real live person? You mean the person who gives the gory details, the one who receives them or the one being referred to (and lusted after)?
I don't mind exchanging gory details with my close friends. And even with you, that "jabbed by his sword" phrase was a very nice and spicy innuendo, and you and I could go on forever about Lucius' anatomy without embarassing each other (I hope). Because, well, Lucius was meant to be sexy, besides he doesn't exist, we can tell about him whatever we like. But I wouldn't be able to go into fora (frequented by boys too) and, you know, say how I would like to touch Jason Isaacs' privates and have his wife Emma kiss him while I'm... you know. It's insulting, I respect Jason Isaacs as a man and as an actor, I would never photoshop my head on his wife's body kissing him. I wouldn't even make jokes about it. He's a real person.
And me attacking those in fora... well, I didn't. I was so mad that I simply left. It was driving me insane. I could do it, you know, insult them cruelly in the most elegant of ways. But what good would it do? They would strike back. I didn't want to be banned. If I didn't care, I would certainly tell them the most complicated insults they could ever hear in a forum.
The funny thing is that it wasn't a Jason Isaacs forum, it was a Richard Dawkins forum (you must know him, the UK's most famous biologist and atheist).
Oh god, I was so mad!...
Snape will never learn to love another I'm afraid. He's too proud and too bitter. His young years have scarred him, that's for sure. It's too late now to take all that back. He should have never become a professor even, he truly hates children. I mean, he wants to protect them (and protect himself of course, being in Hogwarts) but that's not good enough. At least at the end of "Pure Blood" he and Harry make up (sort of), he had given a vow to Lily to protect her son. That's why he had to kill Lucius. Harry aknowledged that. And managed to tell him that he was glad to know him.