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hbprophetie · 11 months

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Hello. Nothing to do with Snape or HP this time, and I'm sorry to annoy anybody with my feelings right now so please if you don't care about hearing anything a bit personal (and I do not blame anyone for that!), then do not feel any shame in skipping this post! (It's nothing of real importance anyway and I'll continue to make HP related posts!)

(I might delate it latter. I'm not especially super fond of exposing my feelings but if anyone want to talk about it I'll be very happy to do so)

I have very bittersweets and a rather hurting feelings about something, and I thought that maybe it is an experience that has ever happened to someone, and that maybe that someone would know how to cope with it and give me advices. At least, I think it may make me some good to get it out of my chest, even if it's a bit shamefull to expose.

I have been leaving in Japan for about 10 months now because I studied the language in France and had the chance to be able to participate in a cultural exchange. I've been frequenting a University in a little city in countryside called Tenri, made a lot of encounters of peoples from all over the world, with different cultures and languages.

Now the date of my departure is nearing, and while I'm not sure if I'll move back to France or move in Tokyô to find employement, most of my new friends will go back to their own home countries and I will for sure not be going back to Tenri before a very long time.

I'm already very sad about the goodbyes I'll have to do in the next 2 months, knowing that some peoples I'll probably never see again and I shared such incredible experiences with them that I already know how leaving them will be difficult. At least, I know that those feelings will in some great extend be mutual, and that I'll not be alone to be sad to part ways.

But, my biggest apprehension is to say goodbye to the Japanese coworkers, with whom I have been working for a few month as a part time job outside of my studies. I have been working in a Japanese convenient store and while it has arguably been one of the most difficult and challenging experience of my stay in Japan (because of the intensity of the job itself but moreso because of the difficulties of language barrier, both when dealing with clients and my colleagues), it ended up being one of the (if not the) things that brought the more happiness and rewarding feelings in my daily life. This work provided me with a feeling of belonging and some sense of confidence in myself in a moment I felt very isolated and helpless. Now, I realise that in one or two month, it will be over for good. Because this experience was very intense, I developped very strong feelings of loyalty and attachement towards my colleagues, that I know I should rather not have developped. I understand very well that they are unilateral, and that this is very normal because while for me it's an extremely out-of-comfort-zone experience that makes everything unique, for them I'm most probably just another temporary part-time employee - who looks a bit limited and awkward because not being able to apprehend the language perfectly, at that.

Therefore, I feel a big sadness at the idea that the farewell will be very hurting for me but most naturally not for my collegues. Japanese peoples are very kind, but they have a very different way of thinking than wersterners especially when it comes to social relationship and they are very reserved about expressing feelings. Therefore, I don't know if I can tell them what I feel to any extend without causing them uneasiness and maybe incomprehension (because, maybe for them we are not that close - my strong affective response is caused by my own circumstances) - and this is only if I'm able to express my feelings in Japanese, which is one of the most difficult things to do in any other language than your own. I'm very sad about parting ways, that I'll not be bold enough to communicate my gratitude, that this experience may not have real closure and that they might forget about me a few weeks after my departure.

It's not the first time I have to say goodbye, I graduated from schools and said goodbye to close friends and coworkers before. But never to people who live in the other side of the world from where my hometown actually is. This is the first time I have such intense feelings towards it. And some of these feelings I never had before.

It will be alright in the end, but for now I'm affraid about missing opportunities and not having a chance to be honest and sincere.

Is there anyone who ever felt those things, or would have advices of how to deal with it, I wonder.

#not harry potter related #personal #not snape #real life #irl

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hbprophetie · 11 months

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Snape, Scoundrel or Saint? - Week 2: The Professor

Hum-hello?

Well, yes, I am late. Like, very very late...? I hope you will not be mad at me lol, I had this pic in my wips for litteraly weeks and I couldn't either find the time to clean-up / frame this second pannel nor the energy and motivation to do so...! For more than one week it has been on the point of completion but every day I got something to prevent me to achieve it lol.

It was far too LONG!

I'm really unsure of how I feel about this final result - but I have to post it now and submit it to your jugement, hoping that you'll find some good in this second entry in the @snapecelebration 's "Snape: Scoundrel or Saint" event.

Prompts were, this time: "Potion Master", "Head of Slytherin House", "Colleagues", "Slytherin Favouritism" and "Bullying". Can you find them here?

I have to thank all of you for your amazing reception on my first entry. ♡ It gave me hope when I wasn't sure anybody would be interested anymore by my deserted blog! Ahah

I am unfortunately very very far behind in the challenge and somehow it makes me doubt of if it is of any importance that I try to complete this series. I think I want to do it at some point but I'm affraid that forcing me to do so for now (while I have serious real life objectives that require my time and attention, while my head is willing to focus on something else than drawing and while my hand do not really want to draw Snape anyway) will not help me do my best.

Time will tell if I am to complete this challenge! For now, do not hesitate to share your thoughts!

Enjoy those little snapshot of our Potion's master life as a teacher at Hogwarts, school of Witchcraft and Wizardry! 🐍☆

(Thank you again for all the nice words)

#fanart #harry potter #severus snape #harry potter fanart #pro snape #severus snape art #snapecelebration #slytherin #draco malfoy

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hbprophetie · 1 year

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Snape, Scoundrel or Saint? - Week 1: The Muggle

Hey there! Yeah, I'm still alive. Here is my participation for the first week of @snapecelebration 's "Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?" event! I'll try to do my best and deliver one pic for each week, but as I was unsure of the dates concerned by the event, expect them to be pretty late / released when the following week starts! (at best, I'll constantly post them on Tuesday).

As it is something that I enjoy to do, I combined all the prompts in one single drawing that I wanted to make look like a page of manga. I'm not the best when it comes to layering and making dynamics compositions, so I hope it won't look too messy. I had an hard time drawing young Severus's face, as I had never really made any definitive reference for my interpretation of 10 years old kid Snape.

Prompts were "Cokeworth", "Tobias and Eileen Snape", "Childhood", "Friendship" and "Holiday", so I hope you'll find them easily there!

Even if it took me very long to put the manga screentones I'm really not sure of if I prefer with or without it. Do not hesitate to tell me your opinion, I'm really interested. One thing sure is that I had something in my mind when I imagined the pic, and the result is completely different as much in terms of style, technique and shadings. I do not have the necessary objectivity right now to determine if I like it or not at all.

Do not hesitate to tell me your opinion! 🍃

Again, I apologize for my inactivity this year. I have had weird times lately, and I'm still trying to focus on my real life experiences. I still love you all and hope you'll enjoy this new thing, from that damn irregular artist that I am.

Despite everything, I missed posting there for sure! Enjoy~

#fanart #harry potter #severus snape #harry potter fanart #pro snape #severus snape art #severus and lily #snape and lily #lily evans #snapecelebration #snapecelebration2023

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hbprophetie · 1 year

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Hello everybody,

I would like to apologize for not giving news, not answering to your kind messages and not posting anything on this page for litteraly far too long.

I'm currently undertaking some of the most difficult and ambitious professional projects of my life and it comes with a lot of stress and uncertainties.

I definitely will be back at some point, I hope sooner than later, but for the moment it's difficult for me to focus on my Snape fanarts. Some of them are in the way but I need to find time (and energy) to clean and color them properly.

Thank you anyway to my followers for your patience and my apologies for not providing content more regularly. Again, I want to thank all the peoples who give appreciation to my work, and sorry for not always giving anwers to your bery nice words. Be sure they mean a lot to me.

See you all soon, I hope. ~

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hbprophetie · 1 year

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Those cheeky Slytherins baited Snape into the common room and he's been greeted with some unexpected enthusiasm. No escape left now - he'll have to handle the tricky situation he's found himself traped in!!

Happy birthday Severus! 💚

Bringing joy and celebration is now an unavoidable tradition to pay tribute to our favorite greesy Potion Master, ruling over Hogwarts's damp dungeons.

I apologise for the sh*t quality of the fanart, the scanner I found at the supermarket destroyed the look of picture because I think I sat wrong parameters, and I chose to work with a very small sized file in consequence. I hesitated to post it to be honest, I'm definitely not satisfied. But well - Snape's birthday is only one day in a year, so no time to start it from scratch again. Sorry for the result tho. ;_;

At least I hope he enjoyed his slice of strawberry shortcake. 🍰 In absence of a Dumbledore to spoil him with some sweets, I take in charge to feed this grumpy boy with wipped cream and some well deserved comfort. ♡

If he's nice enough, we'll watch Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets under the blanket before going to sleep.

#fanart #harry potter #severus snape #harry potter fanart #pro snape #snape community #snape fandom #severus snape art #happy birthday #birthday #strawberry shortcake

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hbprophetie · 1 year

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Merry Christmas to you all this year again, my dear little Snape fans. ✨️🤗 ❄️

I will be back soon, and I wanted to thank you all for the messages and tags I got during my absence, I saw them and they made me extremely happy. 😊 I just wanted to take the tie to thank you properly and this time didn't come before now. I will soon do it.

Merry Christmas to all of you, I hope you'll find happiness, and turn on the light. ⚡️✨️

Do you remember the comic I made for Christmas a month ago? I posted it unfinished, cause I couldn't get it fully cleaned on the right date, but I told I would post an enhanced version later...

So here it is!

Hogwarts Grounds, 25/12/1981, Enhanced version

(Still needs to be read from right to left)

You can have the picture in full resolution here. Tumblr doesn't like it when I put 4k images lol.

I know that Christmas is pretty far behind now but I wanted to share the final version as it took me a lot of time to finish it and I was very happy to see you seemed to enjoy the WIP version despite it being rough. I hope with all my heart that this cleaned up version will equally please you.

I apologize if some of you would have expected or prefered a colored version. I never really imagined it as so to be honest, so it still made out of shades of black and white. I gave it a brief try but quickly realised I couldn't put colors without loosing some of the intensity I wanted to be on the character's expressions. As I told when I posted the WIP version, they were my main focus. Excuse me for the backgrounds, I know the perspective is quite bad and I'm very poor at it so it's rather suggested than anything else...don't pay to much attention to it then (please).

Do not hesitate to check the former post if you want to know more about the scene in itself and what I intended it to represent. ❄😊 The link is at the top of this one if you have missed it.

Have a nice week-end!

Oh, and...I just realised I forgot to wish you an happy new year, which is very impolite, so happy new year to you all dear Snape fans! 🌟

#severus snape #harry potter #harry potter fanart #pro snape #snape community #fanart #snape fandom #snape and dumbledore #winter #comic #albus dumbledore #snape fanart #severus snape art #merry chrismas 2022 #merry christmas

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hbprophetie · 1 year

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Ooh ok, no no don't worry, I do apologize for potentially having misinterpreted your words. I read the "I have a problem with your..." in my notes and I went short to assume it was certainly gonna be unpleasant but actually I'm glad if it was asked out of curiosity! 🙂

Actually the comments and constructive critics of peoples who are not "artists" are from those I consider as the most important to listen to. When you have the habit to do something you'll rarely question it, and some things that can seem weird to the audience can go unnoticed by yourself. I never really questionned my way to leave hair uncolored on the lineart but now that you clarified your point it really makes sense. It's a bit of a long story but when I started to draw Snape 10 years ago, I didn't like to use plain black because it made the coloring process boring. I rather used shades of grey, green, violet or blue, using some dark grey to color his hair instead of plain black. Therefore, coloring Snape's hair with a black marker seems odd to me up to this day. But at the end of day, of course, his hair IS black.

Actually, that's a very good remark that you made, and I'll definitely keep it in my mind for the future! 😉

I have a problem with your inktober Snaoe. Not hus age, but the not black hair makes him unrecognizable to me. What makes him Snaoe I wonder???

First, thanks for your question! I'm not sure if it is an inquiry made out of curiosity, or a bit malevolent critic, so I'll try to keep my answer as neutral as possible. To be honest, I find your question a bit baffling for some bits.

I've been consuming Snape content for years and from what I've been able to observe, I saw couteless drawings and interpretations of kid Snape, and I've seen his adult self being drawn in the most unlikely AU, with different haircuts and clothes; as a fictionnal character, I think it's not a problem to propose different interpretations, and anyone is free to pick which one they like and dislike. Also, Snape was definitely a kid once, therefore I see no problem in drawing him as such.

Regarding the hair color, it really confuses me, as the drawings were actually intended to be only linearts. It means that there's actually no colors at all, not even black and white. In doing so I keep them neutral to be able to color them later if I decide to. The pencil colored area are just there to emphasis volumes and shadows, to create some depth and make the general composition nicer for this type of drawing. If you look at my other works, including last year's Snapetober, you'll realise that it's just the way I proceed in most cases. I rarely blacken his hair at the lineart's step. But as the last picture I colored can show you, I never imagined his hair to be anything else than black.

Also, I may need to explain myself about Snape's attitude in my inktober series. For that, I can recognize that I took a lot of liberties from canon. If it's really a problem, I don't know, and honestly I would be interested to know everyone's opinion on this subject, so please do not hesitate to tell me. What happened is that I wanted to do the Inktober, but the prompts for Snapetober arrived 2 days before October 1st. I am someone for whom it takes a lot of time to organise, come up with ideas and put them on paper. So of course, when the "official" Snapetober prompts were released, I had already been looking up for another prompt list, started thinking about my drawings for a few days and had already decided to base it on the official list instead. Most of them were pretty light hearted and challenging, so I knew I would be going for something less dark than usual - and already knew it wouldn't be the most popular idea. And it was a reinforced feeling when I saw the actual Snapetober promptlist, which was super angsty as always.

Eventually, I believe I am free to draw what I want. If you don't like my inktober series, then it's really alright, you don't have to. But also I want to emphasis that if I just wanted to draw something different from usual because I was unwilling to draw the regular super angsty Snape stuff.

Just to be clear, I have nothing against the super popularity of angsty Snape content in any kind of Snape related content. I like my Snape with some angst too, I take a lot of pleasure to both consume and create such things, but sometimes I think it's a bit sad to feel forced to submit to this in order to get more responses.

I hope my answer do not sound too rude, it wasn't my intention. Actually, I'm opened to critics and if anyone want to tell me their opinion, positive or negative on anything that I say or create, please feel free to step forward.

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