I cannot believe that I painted your Harry, the one you see in your mind. What a thrilling feeling! This is my Harry, so for it to be a perfect match with yours is just fantastic. God, I can’t even begin to describe how happy that makes me! I’ve never been able to draw the Harry I see in my mind, until now. Either I wasn’t good enough, or I just didn’t try at it enough, but this time I really got him.
All of your descriptions and thoughs about the painting have me melting over here. You’ve caught everything I wanted you to: the tiredness around his eyes, his skin looking ill, the pain showing through the way he holds his mouth, my wanting to capture the after-effects of being treated like he was, and everything else you mention. Like I was telling someone else, a couple of times I thought maybe I should make his furrowed brow a little more pronounced or have his teeth show a bit, but I didn’t because Harry wouldn’t let the pain show, he’d want to hold it in and suppress it.
I LOVED Draco, but I think I love this more. People just don't tend to pick the messed up things to paint - they pick the pretty, undamaged things, or they show the beauty in single dimension.
Yes, yes, yes. That's one of the reasons I was so nervous about posting this painting in particular because it shows something that isn't often shown.
Writing it from Harry's pov always meant that I understood his motivations better than Draco's, and in some ways that was my nod to canon, in which we have Draco and his intentions shrouded in a certain kind of mystery, because he's not the character we're intimate with.
Fuck. Did I subconciously know that or is it a coinsidence that I happened to paint a more mysterious Draco and then a very detailed, raw Harry? I could have easily done the opposite. I think that of the two paintings, you can read Draco’s emotions but you can really read Harry’s. I totally didn’t plan on that, but there it is, and it goes so well with the story and your thoughts on it that I’m shell shocked at the realization.
Your Harry is my Harry as much as mine is yours. I love your thoughts on the core of his personality - they are my thoughts mirrored. I think that’s why your stories have struck such a cord with me and why this painting strikes a cord with you, and this painting is as much a part of you as it is me, darling!
Have you noticed how it's okay for fanfic to break Draco on a regular basis, but you cannot fuck with 'the people's' Harry?
I have definitely noticed that, and I think that’s one of the reasons why I love this Harry so much, because he’s so realistic to how a person would be if all of that happened to them, and I just love the darkness there. People don’t write him this way nearly enough.
I hope these paintings have had more people discover the brilliance that is the Mudhoney trilogy! Both of them are recs as much as they are fanart, from me to the H/D fandom to go read it now, if they haven't already.
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Re: Continued...
Date: 2009-08-02 05:12 am (UTC)I cannot believe that I painted your Harry, the one you see in your mind. What a thrilling feeling! This is my Harry, so for it to be a perfect match with yours is just fantastic. God, I can’t even begin to describe how happy that makes me! I’ve never been able to draw the Harry I see in my mind, until now. Either I wasn’t good enough, or I just didn’t try at it enough, but this time I really got him.
All of your descriptions and thoughs about the painting have me melting over here. You’ve caught everything I wanted you to: the tiredness around his eyes, his skin looking ill, the pain showing through the way he holds his mouth, my wanting to capture the after-effects of being treated like he was, and everything else you mention. Like I was telling someone else, a couple of times I thought maybe I should make his furrowed brow a little more pronounced or have his teeth show a bit, but I didn’t because Harry wouldn’t let the pain show, he’d want to hold it in and suppress it.
I LOVED Draco, but I think I love this more. People just don't tend to pick the messed up things to paint - they pick the pretty, undamaged things, or they show the beauty in single dimension.
Yes, yes, yes. That's one of the reasons I was so nervous about posting this painting in particular because it shows something that isn't often shown.
Writing it from Harry's pov always meant that I understood his motivations better than Draco's, and in some ways that was my nod to canon, in which we have Draco and his intentions shrouded in a certain kind of mystery, because he's not the character we're intimate with.
Fuck. Did I subconciously know that or is it a coinsidence that I happened to paint a more mysterious Draco and then a very detailed, raw Harry? I could have easily done the opposite. I think that of the two paintings, you can read Draco’s emotions but you can really read Harry’s. I totally didn’t plan on that, but there it is, and it goes so well with the story and your thoughts on it that I’m shell shocked at the realization.
Your Harry is my Harry as much as mine is yours. I love your thoughts on the core of his personality - they are my thoughts mirrored. I think that’s why your stories have struck such a cord with me and why this painting strikes a cord with you, and this painting is as much a part of you as it is me, darling!
Have you noticed how it's okay for fanfic to break Draco on a regular basis, but you cannot fuck with 'the people's' Harry?
I have definitely noticed that, and I think that’s one of the reasons why I love this Harry so much, because he’s so realistic to how a person would be if all of that happened to them, and I just love the darkness there. People don’t write him this way nearly enough.
I hope these paintings have had more people discover the brilliance that is the Mudhoney trilogy! Both of them are recs as much as they are fanart, from me to the H/D fandom to go read it now, if they haven't already.
Love you right back!