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MajorWhoaButWhy — Scabber's Finest Moment

Published: 2011-07-11 02:52:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1063; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 7
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Description ""I'd be careful if I were you, Potter,' he said slowly. "Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents. They didn't know what was good for them either. You hang around with riffraff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid, and it'll rub off on you."
Both Harry and Ron stood up.
"Say that again," Ron said, his face as red as his hair.
"Oh, you're going to fight us, are you?" Malfoy sneered.
"Unless you get out now," said Harry, more bravely then he felt, because Crabbe and Goyle were a lot bigger than him or Ron.
"But we don't feel like leaving, do we, boys? We've eaten all our food and you still seem to have some."
Goyle reached toward the Chocolate Frogs next to Ron- Ron leapt forward, but before he'd so much as touched Goyle, Goyle let out a horrible yell.
Scabbers the rat was hanging off his finger, sharp little teeth sunk deep into Goyle's knuckle- Crabbe and Malfoy backed away as Goyle swung Scabbers round and round, howling, and when Scabbers finally flew off and hit the window, all three of them disappeared at once. Perhaps they thought there were more rats lurking among the sweets, or perhaps they'd heard footsteps, because a second later, Hermione Granger had come in."

~Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 6, "The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters, pg. 109

All Harry Potter characters, plots, sentences © JK Rowling.

SO. This chapter gave me trouble, which is a shame because it's an important one. :S I kept giving up on sketches and wanted to move on, so this is what we're stuck with for now. Just to attempt to make it a little more visually interesting, I left all my sketchy mess in there. I'm a messy drawer anyway, and sometimes, I feel like to refine a thing is to ruin it.

Crabbe's body would not cooperate with me. You can see the pencil where I had originally drawn in his hand, and then halfway through coloring realized the hand was backward... so I just hid his entire arm (and awkwardly, at that). Except for the fact that they're too small, I'm kind of proud of Goyle and Malfoy's hands. I don't visualize or draw hands well, and so I spent a day looking at other drawing of hands just to try to get a sense of how they move. Hands are weird. :S
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Comments: 9

Gryffgirl [2013-04-06 21:32:06 +0000 UTC]

I don't know anyone else who has drawn this scene, and you captured the comedy in it perfectly! What can be worse than reaching in a bag to steal someone's sweets and being bitten by a (ugh!) rat! I love the faces on the bad three. Few people draw Crabbe and Goyle with Draco which is a pity, since the comic potential is quite high. This was the only moment in the books where I liked Peter. Scabbers' finest moment indeed!

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MajorWhoaButWhy In reply to Gryffgirl [2013-04-18 19:49:41 +0000 UTC]

Possibly Scabbers *only* fine moment! Thanks for the feedback.

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Aquardial [2013-03-02 01:58:33 +0000 UTC]

I always wondered what Pettigrew was thinking in this moment. He probably heard Malfoy Jr introduce them; I wonder if it was Peter's bit of revenge second-handedly?
I like seeing things like this; showing the artist's progress. Pretty cool. Expressions are priceless.

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MajorWhoaButWhy In reply to Aquardial [2013-03-02 03:40:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Expressions are fun for me because in a way, it's hard to get an expression wrong, but it's also hard to get it *just* right (if that makes any sense). I wish we had a little more information about what was going through Pettigrew's mind all those years he spent hanging around his best friend's son.

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maxvision92 [2012-07-18 21:07:06 +0000 UTC]

I knew Wormtail was good for something.

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SAmaryllis [2011-07-11 05:27:51 +0000 UTC]

D: Yeah, I'd have to say the hand sizes are a little wonky. I mean, they look fine wrinkle and posewise and stuff (I especially like the "eep!" hand Malfoy is doing, it's brilliant XD), but the hand Scabbers is biting is definitely too small. It's like, Scabbers is sucking all the air out of his blow up balloon hand or something. XD;;;

Malfoy's hair. <3

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MajorWhoaButWhy In reply to SAmaryllis [2011-07-25 00:43:06 +0000 UTC]

Hands. They'll be the end of me, haha.

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SAmaryllis In reply to MajorWhoaButWhy [2011-07-25 02:08:38 +0000 UTC]

Man, but you have some super pro sketches in your artdumps! D:

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MajorWhoaButWhy In reply to SAmaryllis [2011-08-26 03:02:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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