Hermione Granger Time Lapse

This is the second in a series of Harry Potter themed illustrations that I did recently. I wanted to do a three piece series featuring Harry, Hermoine and Ron – the main characters from the Harry Potter series of books.

Hermoine proved especially fun for me as I think it ended up my favorite of the three pieces. The layout had quite a few dynamic elements including her scarf and the smoke, and I got a really nice contrast with the darks of her robe.

Here are a few of the steps I took when painting the piece that hopefully you’ll see in the video.

Once I had my paper stretched these are the basic steps of the painting.

• I did my initial sketch and printed it onto the paper before I stretched it. So I had a starting point.

   

• Then I laid down washes of ink and set the overall tonal quality of the piece.

   

• Next I added some pencil linework to give the piece some weight.

   

• I then added washes of color over the tonal work and then went back with a black col-erase pencil and beefed up the lines again.

   

• The final touch was using a white coloring pencil to add highlights.

Once the painting was finished I did scan it and make adjustments in photoshop to the digital file. My scanner tends to desaturate and blow out some colors so I beefed up the colors in photoshop and also cleaned it up a little for any future prints I might make.