WIP process: Sunflower auction artwork

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Another WIP process, for a work I've been planning since mid-June. This one was for the Sunflower auction for Ukraine, and my recipient had some specific wishes. They wanted a Harry Potter artwork, and suggested several prompts within this fandom. I chose the following one and we discussed the details in a series of emails. My recipient didn’t want movie canon characters, and also preferred them to be older, in mid-life, so I researched the wikis and we conferred about appearance details from book canon. This summary was the result:

Draco Malfoy and Theodore Knott as friends, aged about 40, in a manor house room, dark atmosphere (I made this Malfoy Manor). Theo has fairly recently been released from Azkaban. Theo has dark blue eyes and fairly short (but not prison short) "mouse-brown" hair, and he looks "rabbity" (a slight overbite, I guessed). Draco has longer pale blond hair, grey eyes and a "triangular face". They're wearing interesting wizarding robes.

I went through my usual process in building up the pic, with an additional final digital process as the art was to be provided digitally, as a jpg file and an AO3 post.

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Overall, I guess it took about 5 days from the collage stage, until posting to AO3.