sword v. snake

Edit: Shaded his face a bit more and added a texture to his sweater to make it more of a sweater. Yeuh.

Neville Longbottom & HP Franchise (c) J.K.Rowling
Artwork (c) Mika Lam
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**I have a version saved without the random background. If you lot think the background looks out of place, I'll replace this file with the other one. Dunno how I feel about either.

Original sketch:


Snake manipulated using this photo: [link]
Sword of Gryffindor: [link]

I wasn't going to color this, but a lot of people seemed to like the messy as crap sketch, so I thought what the hell.

Neville has always been one of my favorite characters in the story, I guess I could relate to him growing up, and even now. Being a loser who's pushed around your whole life by those above you, being pressured to live up to standards that you can't fulfill, and then finding something you're really passionate about (for me, it's art), and in turn, finding yourself.

Tried to make him look like Matt, but I gave him different hair since I hate drawing really short hair wanted to give him a more "book" canon feel, and not stick 100% with the movie. But it ended up looking more movie-verse than anything anyway. I just want that sweater LOL. Grandma/grandpa sweaters are my thing. Sweaters, tights, and boots. Anyway. Got really lazy with the cardigan though...like REALLY lazy.

I wasn't really sure where to take this piece LOL. But it just looked weird with Neville being the only subject, and I didn't feel like drawing another person into this. Nagini and the sword kind of was the only thing that worked.

Since I can't draw snakes or swords to save my life (and I'm lazy), I used photos found online (credit given above), and manipulated them with filters, and painted over them several times. Added his left arm in digitally, so the texture/proportion is a bit off compared to the rest of the piece. But I'm too lazy to fix it. fffff

Enjoy.