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

[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.

[paulamcg]

Thank you! I had intended to do ssomething else besides writing since my summer holidays started yesterday, and considered practising a bit with watercolours (which I've hardly touched after the end of my hiatus from fanfic) this month. But when the prompts being of this type had surprised me, and only after checking out other contributions, did I suddenly have this idea, and I hurried to make this and to find out about posting an image. I'm surprised it worked out. :)

It feels wonderful to get feedback like this: your interpretation, which is not less valid – not less valuable, on the contrary – if it diverges from what happens in the story. I'm thrilled you saw the scar and its connection to Remus's painting. I hoped it wouldn't look like he'd just touched his shoulder with the brush :)