My Son, My Everything

Severus and Eileen.
I got the idea for this while working on the next animation and had to to do it. ...looked better in my head.
Though I think I improved with nails...don't know.
Also Eileen intrigues me - I feel sorry for her, but then sometimes I'm so mad at her. It's a tragical story. Exactly the kind of thing I could muse over for days.

The first time I used stock images for reference - how awesome are stock images!?

Reference:
Severus: [link] from
Eileen: [link] from
Thistle: vaguely [link] from
unrecognizable Poppy: a photo my Mom took

Gimp, tablet. Time?

Edit: Oh, I always forget to mention: Recently I started adding birthmarks, freckles and such to the characters. (To me Sev and Eileen seem to be likely to have birthmarsks...) Since nobody said anything about that yet I suppose it doesn't look all bad.