Inktober 2017: Drawings From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 1)

For the final drawings for the month, I worked on trying to incorporate more background details and making the people really feel like they are in the setting. I was pretty please with how they turned out!  Here are the first few drawings from book seven, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

This drawing of an Order of the Phoenix meeting at The Burrow was fun because it gave me a good excuse to draw some different characters, such as Arthur Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Bill Weasley, Ginny, Weasley, and Remus Lupin (in addition to Harry Potter himself of course).

Day 26: “They were often joined by other Order members for dinner now because the Burrow had replaced number twelve, Grimmauld Place as the headquarters.”

It was tricky trying to figure out exactly how to do the perspective on this drawing so you could see Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger in addition to the Death Eaters outside of Grimmauld Place. It was good practice for me!

Day 27: “Barely a day passed without one or two people arriving in Grimmauld Place with no other purpose, or so it seemed, than to lean against the railings facing numbers eleven and thirteen, watching the join between the two houses.”

I had never really pictured what young Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindewald looked like before, so I had to go back and read what little description we have from the book on their physical appearance. It was fun to come up with their look and figure out how to make their clothes look older than those belonging to the modern-day characters.

Day 28: “The very same summer that Dumbledore went home to Godric’s Hollow... Bathilda Bagshot agreed to accept into her home her great nephew, Gellert Grindelwald.”