day four:
_____secrets
__________mad-eye moody #3

SPOILER!!: day 4 - secrets

A5 paper, mechanical pencil (HB: 0.3, red: 0.5, blue: 0.5)


this one is inspired by regulus prince and daxton prince (aka father of the year).
an unbreakable vow, for all your conspiratorial needs. anyone who knows my
characters can probably attest to the fact that a lot of them have a lot of very
big secrets (some thrive on it, some are destroyed by it, and some are pretty
much defined and moulded by it) but regulus is one of the handful who
immediately came to mind when I saw the prompt.

I used the film still as a reference, but this is supposed to be regulus (left) and
daxton (right). I tried to make it clear how tight regulus was gripping (because,
1. these vows are a Whole Thing, and 2. daxton is not big on physical affection
and so I could imagine regulus really holding tight in this moment) but I think
there was a slightly better sense of that in the underdrawing. alas.

you can see blue pencil marks and maybe a few in red because I use those for
base sketches sometimes (figuring out basic shapes and then refining them).
the blue and red are very difficult to erase and I was also too lazy to shade the
background to cover it, so I just left it as is.

I really like doing pieces in pencil, as it's MUCH more forgiving than ink and
easier to shade with, though it isn't as striking/ doesn't show up as nice when I
take a photo. this one did, though, and I'm pretty happy with it. might be my
favourite prompt that I've done so far. HANDS.