Sketch: Sunshine Challenge, Prompt 1

[paulamcg]

Prompt 1: Red
Red is a strong color that is associated with a variety of things including: courage, power, glory, love, passion, inner strength, romance, sensuality, defiance, tenacity, violence, life, pleasure, fire, and revolution.

This challenge has made me do something outside my comfort zone. I've never before posted a picture on DW. (EDIT Or on AO3, where I've managed to get this a day later./EDIT)

And I've never shared (or made) a piece of fanart. This is just a sketch based on a scene I've been composing when rewriting an old fic about Remus Lupin in Paris in 1984. My Remus is an artist, and just yesterday I wrote about him painting with red, wearing this red jumper borrowed from a lover.

Comments

[sportivetricks]

WHAT.

WOW.

You've never made fanart?? Well holy moly, let's hear it for new beginnings. This is conceptually brilliant, the rhythm and repetition of your color use drawing our eye right to that scar. Kudos.

[bemused_writer]

Ahh, Remus Lupin was always one of my favorites. ^^ And I'm loving the idea of him in Paris! I think it's looking like a great sketch.

[pauraque]

Well done on getting out of your comfort zone! This is a cool sketch. The fact that the red color is also part of his body (the scars) makes me think he's starting to paint something from his own life, expressing what he's been through.

[walgesang]

Watercolors are so cool and I love what you've done with the red paint here. Thanks for sharing your art!

[silveradept]

The sketch and the decision to use solely red (and dilutions thereof) is a choice that works for the artwork. I would enjoy seeing this inked up along with the red decisions that have already been put to it.

[enemytosleep]

I love that you only used red for this. It's very eye catching, and the points it draws attention to are also somewhat affecting. The oversized sweater, a symbol of comfort, the red of the palette and the diluted red of the water glass that he’s painting from. The dash of red on the canvas: is he painting a sunset? It’s fun to speculate. The scars are poignant. It says a lot in few lines. Thank you for sharing!

[quietmoon]

Lovely! <3 The dab of paint on the (in-world) painting drew me in, and for a moment I was like 'wait, but this is also a painting' asldkjfh painting-ception.

[a_belladonna]

Oh! That is a lovely drawing! :) It's very bold to only use the red colour, I like that effect. :)