art for art's sake

[constance]

Tonight I realized that four people are supposed to be getting Snape fanart postcards from me by the end of the week, and panicked. After struggling fruitlessly with my original concept for a few hours, I suddenly had a completely different and highly cracktastic idea (or do I mean craptastic? That, I think, is for the recipients to decide), and got to work pulling stock photos from gettyimages.

I mention this not because of the project per se -- no one apart from the recipients will have much interest in my ideas for Snape postcards -- but because while I was searching for images I found , and I'm absolutely damned if I can figure out what exactly is going on in what I would just like to remind you is a stock photo. I've been giggling about it off and on for a couple of hours now, possibly because it is now almost 3:30 am and I've had much more caffeine than is strictly good for me, and I just felt like sharing it. Is all.

I am making a genuine effort to stick to a schedule, here, up in the morning at 7:30 and bed by 1am at the latest. As you can see, some nights I'm just not succeeding.

ETA: Okay, I think I figured it out. It makes more sense once you realize that the thing he's holding is not, in fact, a fishing pole, and the thing he's wearing is not, in fact, a bathrobe.

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

He's clearly holding a wand and wearing robes.

It's Snape! Being jinxed! By the Marauders!

Do I get a cookie? *g*

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Well, since we can't tell the color of his underpants from here, why not? I've only got Oreos right now -- is that okay?

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Oreos!

*also wants milk*

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*rushes to store for milk*

[woodyinvincible.livejournal.com]

I can't be positive but I think that might be from the movie Samurai Fiction.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, okay, that makes total sense, since I'd already figured out he was a samurai of some sort. Thanks for the info!

And hey there! Long time no see.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Gosh, wouldn't this be a terrific image to show to a bunch of middle schoolers, then ask them to write a story based on it? :D

And thank you for revealing that you're in a similar state of "OMG, Snape postcards due soon!" I've got three to send out myself, and aside from some fruitless sketchifying a few weeks ago, not much has been accomplished yet. But hey, the best ideas come in the 11th hour, so I've only to sit back and wait for the tide of inspiration to roll in.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, except my first thought when I saw this picture was, well, a little off-color, shall we say.

I'm glad I'm not alone with the Snape postcard block. I did the exact same thing as you--preliminary sketches right at first, with nothing working out the way I wanted, and then nothing. But the tide of insp. has come through, sort of! As of about half an hour ago, everything is ready and sitting by the door for a trip to the post office tomorrow.

[leestone.livejournal.com]

It makes more sense once you realize that the thing he's holding is not, in fact, a fishing pole, and the thing he's wearing is not, in fact, a bathrobe.


*expires*

[tofty.livejournal.com]

O:)

In my own defense, I will say that I had a hard time telling that he was Japanese with that grimace on his face. It seems that all races look alike when they've been laid out flat by a samurai sword.