Art: Sea Spray, for such_heights

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Title: Sea Spray
Artist: coldneedles
Drawn for: such_heights
Rating: G
Prompt: art for any of my fics.
Media: pen drawings coloured and assembled in photoshop.
Summary: art for the story The Shores of the Sea
Any other notes, warnings, etc.: Copious use of references and bad hair for all involved. Made up of lots of individual pictures that I can also post larger and seperately if wanted.
Hope you enjoy!




By coldneedles

Comments

[leafyaki.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, lovely! I love your use of colours, very very nicely done, especially the silhouettes! Oh and the hug :D :D :D

Beautifully done!

[such_heights]

a;lsdjask OMG. I love this! Excuse me while I stop flailing and go find some coherency.

Firstly, THANK YOU. I mean, this is so nice of you, and I'm thrilled you happened to pick this particular story, and it is SO lovely. I love the composition, your colours are just gorgeous, and oh, Remus, oh, Sirius. This aches is such a beautiful way - that hug! Gah! And this captures just everything I was trying to say in the fic, and more besides - this is more than an illustration, it retells the story, and so beautifully.

Man, I can't stop looking at this. I think my favourite panel, oddly, is the smallest one in silhouette - it's so simple and heartbreaking and totally gorgeous.

*flails more* This is absolutely fantastic. :D :D :D

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is just gorgeous!

[taigne.livejournal.com]

Oo! Very nice! I like the almost etched quality of the colour, especially Remus' coat in the first panel, and his hair. And the hug is just lovely!

[sambethe.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! I love this ficlet and I completely enjoy getting to see it come to life.

Just gorgeous!

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, well done and unique! I love the strong coloration and I especially love Padfoot here.

[mysecretashes.livejournal.com]

I really like this! The colors are very subdued, and they help set the tone.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Oh, gorgeous! I love the expressions on their faces, the way they both look so weary and solemn at the beginning, and then Sirius's smile as he leaves. The silhouetted panel of Remus helping Sirius up is so perfect for the atmosphere.

[woldy]

The colours are lovely & their expressions are so intense. I love Sirius as a black lab! (Usually he's drawn as way hairier, but black labs are by far the cutest dogs on earth so I'm totally going for your version.) Even the little image in the righthand corner is really nice, yay Buckbeak.

[roterhimmel.livejournal.com]

That's very pretty! I especially am amazed by the one picture where you can only see their outlines and the sun behind them and I also do love Padfoot. Nicely done <3

[starkdependant]

This was beautiful!

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, but that's fantastic!

I love your use of color and the interplay of dark and light.

You tell the whole story so well!!!

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Like the others, I really enjoyed the way this captured the essence of the original fic, and the dark palette is perfect. Enjoyed! Maggie

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Like others, I loved the colors and enjoyed how well it told the original story.

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

OH. This is just wonderful. And I really adore the way you coloured all these drawings.

[fullmoon-dreams.livejournal.com]

I've not read the story, but I like your use of colours there. And the picture of Padfoot at the top reminds me of my grandmother's old dog. Well done.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. (I'm actually really bad at drawing without using photo so I actually used a photo of a black lab to help me.)

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I suppose I should thank my brother for the outlined picture, because I got him to stand in one of the poses so I could capture it, which mae him look stupid, but was worthwhile.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. It's good to know about the colour, because it's kind of my maiden voyage in terms of computer colouring and I was afraid I'd mess it up.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I really enjoyed reading the ficletas well, which is why I liked making art for it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I should really thank my brother for the silhouetted picture, because I got him to stand in one of the poses so I could capture it, which made him look stupid, but was worthwhile. I'm really pleased that you liked the facial expressions as well.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

It's a relief about the colour, because it's the first time that I've worked out how to use a computer properly to do it. I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

I am really happy that you liked it so much and I'm pleased that you think it tells the story well, because the fic and its mood were why I wanted to illustrate it so much. :)

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm pleased you enjoyed it!

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. I was kind of going with a comic-book or storyboard approach to laying it out, so I'm happy that you thought it worked to tell the story.

[coldneedles.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. It's really easy to play with the light in photoshop, because of all the adjustments it help you make to the stuartion, shadows and so on.

[blackliquorice.livejournal.com]

Flying away on a hippogriff. Always a brilliant exit. ;) I like the sense of colour.

Sorry to respond so late. December needs more hours, doesn't it?

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Lovely work! You've really captured the mood of the story.