#But definitely the top piece is the full moon symbolizing Remus

[bleeding-hart]

some sketches

based on @theicarusconstellation's writing

I keep thinking of details I left out and stuff I need to fix but if I let myself do that I'm going to go insane so we're leaving it at this

Also some Sirius because they're a fucking king and we love them (I very strongly hc them as genderqueer and using any pronouns, but specifically he/they/she/it)

The dress was a bit of a failure but hey it looks like fabric at least I think maybe

#fanart #marauders era #fanart of fanfiction #Sirius #A form of jegulus #Not sure if reg being an animagus is widely accepted Canon but I fucking accept it it's mine now and i will die on this hill #I DO however know that Sirius is generally accepted to have tattoos but unfortunately I'm shit at coming up with tat designs #I don't think there's a generally accepted list of what tattoos they have but if there is I would love to hear it #If not ig I'll just make something up #She probably has like. At least one wolf and dog one somewhere #Then definitely canis major #Idk how sappy they are but I want them to be one of those people who gets their friend group to draw hearts or stars and gets those tattooe #Also skeleton designs v much. I want them to have a cat skeleton on their hip in that curling position #Like the floaty cat #Maybe with a moon or star in the center #No real reason I just think he'd look fuckin awesome with it #He also probably has a really cool stylized semicolon on his wrist #I can't give him a koi/sun one cause that's mine and it doesn't fit then anyways #But definitely the top piece is the full moon symbolizing Remus #The bottom idk about but like maybe a squished up dog? Not like disproportionate I'm sure I could figure something out #Honestly they probably also have tats for each of their friends #I'm thinking a stylized deer under a full moon with the rat on it's head #or just prongs and moony w/ little bro between them #Brainstorming idk #If u read all that congrats I don't know why or what you got from it #Welcome to the live stream of my consciousness (you're missing not strong enough fucking BLARING in the background of all my thoughts)

[duskglass]

NOTES:

when I saw the arc of lunar phases in the original composition my very first thought was to have Sirius positioned so that his face blocks out the full moon-- one of my favourite aspects of their relationship is how Sirius was willing to do absolutely anything to help make the transformations easier for Remus (no matter how dangerous/illegal it was) & I wanted to convey a bit of that with this illustration.

the symbol over Sirius is the alchemical sign for amalgamation (combining different elements/aspects together) because imo these two are strongest together & bring out the best in each other (and I love how they are just 100% ride or die & willing to trust each other implicitly even after over a decade apart, because at the end of the day their bond has always been unbreakable & Peter's Big Miscalculation was that he could ever truly turn them against each other and get away with it).

I also drew them older here (how i envision them in the timeline of the books) because post-Azkaban is and always has been my favourite era (but like... AU where they don't get needlessly killed off and/or shoved into creepy forced hetero romances ofc). not that I don't enjoy the Marauders era too, I'm just aaallll about that h/c & reconciliation & struggling to heal from their traumas together, so this pic is also sort of about that for me? wolfstar coming back together after everything they've been through and (finally) finding happiness/peace...!!

concerning tattoos-- on the one hand I do think Sirius would be into body modification like piercings & tattoos, and I could definitely see him inscribing things into his own skin while in prison just for something to do & in an effort to keep himself grounded, but on the other hand.... that doesn't really make sense given the extreme inhumane conditions of Azkaban (where tf would he get ink and needles while in a solitary confinement mind-prison?? like it's established that most prisoners are completely mad in the space of weeks so I really doubt there would be access to that sort of thing, or even the opportunity to request it) so I sort of split the difference and went with something more along the lines of scarification, as I find it a lot more plausible that he could have improvised something sharp without the need for ink or the level of precision required for tattoos.

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+ the raw inks for comparison:

I ended up doing quite a lot of overpainting on this piece (particularly at the top with the moons and cloud details) so I thought the contrast between the inks and final was especially interesting! I do a lot of my work with gouache but I rarely apply them opaquely over the top of brush inks & copics (except maybe as small highlights); I really like how that effect came out here.

(my insta is @duskglass!!)

#wolfstar fanart #Sirius Black #Remus Lupin #wolfstar #dogfathers #HP #dtiyswolfstar #felix art #illustration #brush inking #markers #gouache #dtiys