Fill in the Blank

I think I meant to write and clean today. Instead, after crawling out of bed, the only thing I wanted to do was draw.

So I worked on a pair of comics. (Feel free to play "Fill in the Blank" with the two panels. I would offer a prize, but...)

I also took photos of the matroshka dolls.

I went to an isolated part of my local park to take them ('isolated' being a relative term). It was a tiny, secluded hill at the far end of the park, with uncared-for flowers and no benches. As I was taking a few last pictures, a little girl and her parents walked through my makeshift photo studio. They said nothing to me, and I said nothing to them. Although, I wonder what they made of the foreign lady taking pictures of stuffed dolls in public.

I wonder if they thought the dolls were cute.

Matryoshka Snape and Harry

Here is the results of the hours upon hours of work I've put into these dolls this week: Snape and Harry as Russian Nesting Dolls.

The basic body came from a pattern from a calendar. Everything else I had to draw out by hand (or trace, in the case of Severus' flowers). The hard part for me was being decisive enough to put it all together. The tricky, meticulous bits (particularly Snape's face) were not nearly as hard as I feared. In fact, it was almost relaxing, making them.

All in all, I'm glad they're finished. Just don't think I'll be making more of them any time soon.

The flowers... I don't have many any readers, but if you can name the flowers, I'll give you a prize of some sort (not the actual dolls, probably, but...) I guess I can keep that as my little secret for now under the spoilers tag.

Harry's decorated with holly flowers. Severus is decorated with monkshood. Or is it wolfsbane...

I posted a larger version of this picture on dA [link].