Whoa! How have I not already left a comment here? I'd have sworn I already had. Hmmm...maybe LJ was acting up the first day I visited.
OK, so, belatedly (cuz I looked at your art the day it posted but finally only finished reading the fic right now cuz I have been mad busy/distracted) each and every one of these portraits is amazing!
I'm blown away by all the tiny details you added that make each of these like a candid snapshot of a moment in time, a moment that Julie defined and you brought to life!
Aside from the wonderful (and accurate) way you rendered each feature, these little things that make such a huge difference: Colin's eyebrows, the down-to-the-side angle of his eyes, the slight but significant pursing of his lips and the rumpled hair, as if he'd just run a single distracted hand through it-Bradley's face, the way the whole thing is pinched in painful bewilderment, eyes, brow, nose, mouth chin! even his chin looks pinched! the way it's all hunched up into his bottom lip, now that is expression!-Richard's half-suppressed smile is wonderful, as are his eyes...how did you manage that subdued sparkle? He looks happy without being overly exuberant, it's kind of a dignified joy if that makes any sense, how? how did you manage that?-Rupert, ah, lovely Rupert! soft & strong, patient and hopeful, the set of his mouth and the glow in his eyes, I'm not even sure how you managed to make them glow like that with graphite but you most certainly did! I love the line of his throat and jaw and the arch of his nose, I mean, even his hair is telling the story with it's relaxed, happy waves.
Yeah, so, that's probably not so coherent but I'm not terribly coherent when laying out all the feelings your beautiful art engendered in me. Hopefully, you'll get the drift that I really, really loved each one of these drawings. And the knot? Gorgeous!
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OK, so, belatedly (cuz I looked at your art the day it posted but finally only finished reading the fic right now cuz I have been mad busy/distracted) each and every one of these portraits is amazing!
I'm blown away by all the tiny details you added that make each of these like a candid snapshot of a moment in time, a moment that Julie defined and you brought to life!
Aside from the wonderful (and accurate) way you rendered each feature, these little things that make such a huge difference: Colin's eyebrows, the down-to-the-side angle of his eyes, the slight but significant pursing of his lips and the rumpled hair, as if he'd just run a single distracted hand through it-Bradley's face, the way the whole thing is pinched in painful bewilderment, eyes, brow, nose, mouth chin! even his chin looks pinched! the way it's all hunched up into his bottom lip, now that is expression!-Richard's half-suppressed smile is wonderful, as are his eyes...how did you manage that subdued sparkle? He looks happy without being overly exuberant, it's kind of a dignified joy if that makes any sense, how? how did you manage that?-Rupert, ah, lovely Rupert! soft & strong, patient and hopeful, the set of his mouth and the glow in his eyes, I'm not even sure how you managed to make them glow like that with graphite but you most certainly did! I love the line of his throat and jaw and the arch of his nose, I mean, even his hair is telling the story with it's relaxed, happy waves.
Yeah, so, that's probably not so coherent but I'm not terribly coherent when laying out all the feelings your beautiful art engendered in me. Hopefully, you'll get the drift that I really, really loved each one of these drawings. And the knot? Gorgeous!