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The Potions Master

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Character  Severus Snape

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Started this piece back in April. I know—that’s a long time to work on a piece of art—but I wasn’t able to work on it every day, and I’m slow with drawing as it is. It seems rather fitting that I finished it today, on the anniversary of Alan Rickman’s passing. (I tried really hard to finish it by the 14th, and I did! Just wasn’t able to post it until today—was having trouble logging in to my account.)


At the time of starting this, I just viewed it as a way to test out some digital art techniques I had been wanting to try for a while (and I was re-reading the Harry Potter books at the time). But thinking about it now, it makes sense that I started this when I did. My family and I were approaching the anniversary of my brother/best friend’s leukemia diagnosis, and a lot of difficult memories from 2023 kept resurfacing. So, I turned to something I enjoyed doing when I was younger. Yes, creating in general is something I love doing, but I have more creative outlets to choose from now, whereas when I was younger, drawing was one of the few skills I had at the time.


As silly as it sounds, I think drawing again—especially such an important character to me—helped me cope with the events of 2023. From everything that happened with my brother to losing my dad unexpectedly, I just needed something nostalgic. Plus, my dad—without meaning to—is the reason I got into Harry Potter. He rented the third movie, and though I only caught bits of it (my mom wasn’t thrilled that he rented it, haha), I was hooked once I saw the fourth movie.


Needless to say, Severus Snape ended up becoming my favorite character. He was just a character I really empathized with and connected to. I don’t want to get into detail, because I could go on forever, but let’s just say I sucked at making friends. One of the few friends I did have made me feel small, often let me know how terrible of a friend I was, made me feel like I couldn’t do anything right, and caused me to struggle with my self-worth.


Because of all that, I really latched onto Snape’s character (and, if I’m being honest, had a huge crush on him)—and, in turn, Alan Rickman. That got me into watching more of his movies, many of which I ended up watching with my dad. Those are very fond memories for me. Recently, I’ve been on a bit of an Alan Rickman movie binge again, trying to watch as many of his films as I can. It just makes me wish I could watch them with my dad again…



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P.S. If you look closely at the bottles in the background, you’ll find they are all labeled with the name of an Alan Rickman character (or Alan Rickman himself)

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TheTie-DyeJedi's avatar

I love this. You did a great job with Snape, the background and the lighting. So well done of the brooding Potions Master. I think there are so many more fans of him out there then we know. He truly is one of the most complex characters. Alan Rickman did a wonderful job as him, I just wish we'd had as many scenes with Snape as in the books. Anyway, well done!