Art: Nineteen Years Later (G)

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I am adding the final touches to a short Snape/Brynhild fic for the current challenge at romancingwizard, as well as working on a rewrite of my pre-DH post-HBP Snape family saga, and all the Snape shipping on my mind finally got me to draw a picture of which I had been thinking for a while - a joint portrait of Snape and Brynhild's children *g*. Here they are, nineteen years after Voldemort's defeat: Alba and Alexander Snape.









If I had invented the Snapelings after DH, I don't think I would have had Snape and Brynhild call their firstborn Alba, but up to HBP it still looked as though Dumbledore had been a kind of substitute father to Snape... Ah well.

Snape wishes that his daughter would stop smoking, but as he keeps smoking himself, Alba does not feel obliged to listen to him. He also wishes that his son would wear his hair short, but as he wears it long himself, Xander thinks there is no reason to obey.

This was done with Faber-Castell PITT pens, Tombow markers and Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencils.

Comments

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! It seems, as someone said above, that your Snape did indeed get the children he deserves. ;) I would not want to get in an argument with either of these two - especially Alba! I love both their clothes, especially Alba's bodice, and those stockings. A minor question - is Alba supposed to be taller than Xander, or is it just those heels? it looks as though they are standing on a slope, and he is 'uphill' from her.

But I don't know how to draw anything at all, and I really admire what you do. It's also really nice to see the kids. Will there be any stories about them as teenagers?
(I know, that's perhaps a lot to ask, with all your other projects. I've been following "War in Gaul" as well, and am also looking forward to more drawings of that.)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

*g*
I can't promise you stories about the Snapelings as teenagers, but if I do get attacked by plot bunnies, I don't see why I wouldn't feed them ;-). The rewrite of the RPG material has priority now, fanfic-wise, and I still feel like writing something called Look At Me - a sort of behind the scenes of DH, preferably including Snape's teen years and his early history with Brynhild, but that looks like a huge project :D. We'll see. I always have an eye on "War in Gaul" as well, but it needs maturing, so I just act on the ideas tat come along :-). I'm really glad you are interested in it!

Alba isn't taller than Xander. Yes, she's wearing those heels, and she's also closer to the viewer than her brother. I *think* (but I'm bad at perspective, so I'm not sure I did everything right) that if they were made to stand right next to each other on a horizontal line, they would be more or less the same height, Alba with heels :-).