03.28.07
Posted in Scoops, Art at 4:44 pm by Headmaster
Deathly Hallows cover art revealed.
Another version here (thanks, David!).
[Via Newsarama]
UPDATE: The Guardian has an image of the U.K. version.
The children’s cover for Bloomsbury in Britain is by Jason Cockroft, who illustrated the previous two books, and features Harry, Ron and Hermione leaping out of a circle of gold, surrounded by treasure. Harry himself looks almost unrecognisably grown-up - although the trademark specs remain - and all the intrepid cloak-clad trio look shocked and have cuts and bruises on their arms. The inside front cover features a stag, while the inside back cover has an illustration of a snake inside a silver orb. The adult edition cover pictures a locket, believed to belong to Slytherin.
[Via mediabistro]
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09.15.06
Posted in Meta, Art at 2:12 pm by Headmaster
The title says it all: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry made of Matchsticks.
Amazing!
[Via MeFi]
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12.24.05
Posted in Art at 3:59 pm by RavenclawWit
Want to see something truly amazing? There’s a guy by the name of Jonathan McEnroe who has been posting the most amazing digital paintings of the Potter actors in the MuggleNet forum. They are really incredible. You can view the thread here. You can also click on that thumbnail to see the full-size painting he did of Harry and Hermione (as played by Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson).
Mr. McEnroe was even kind enough to provide both a graphic and short paragraph outlining his technique for creating the paintings in Photoshop:
“It’s a very simple technique I use in photoshop, and it’s simple painting with the reference photograph on another layer beside it. I simply block in the face, making sure everything is where it needs to be, then it is around seven hours of continual painting of the face, refining the details over and over. I usually begin the eyes first when I do the face, but now they are last. Finally, I block in the hair, very rough, and begin to layer the details, and finally, I begin to add in the hair strand details to give life to the hair. To finish off, I add in the shoulders with a costume choice, luckily, Harry had his cool sports costume on from film four, however the picture of Emma was from a posed promotional photograph where she had a white t-shirt on. I simple added her dark jacket and grey/pink turtle neck jumper on to finish the picture off. I finally brought the two characters together and made a single image with them together. It’s a technique I’ll be using for all the characters. Painting over photograph looses all fun in painting, and the overall practice. It’s always best to have the painting beside your painting, on a different layer, the face, hair and shoulders are all three separate layers too and not connected to the background layer.” -Jonathan McEnroe
Mr. McEnroe is a professional artist. He has worked for EA Games (creators of the Harry Potter video games), Dabhand Films and Hardwhere films. You can see his deviantART page, where he has all kinds of digital art on display, including some Star Wars paintings.
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12.10.05
Posted in Humor, Art at 7:13 am by RavenclawWit
This is what happens when you have an image editing program, a scanner, an empty Altoids tin, and too much time on your hands:
Somebody stop me, please.
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