At the Palaestra (R)
Artist: ships_harry
Title: At the Palaestra
Media: PS
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Notes: This pic nearly drove me nuts, Prompter Dear, and I'm not best pleased with it :-/. I initially got stuck on the idea of the well... and then got stuck on how bloody hard it was to find a visual reference for a well in a city. I found references to smaller wells using the top of a large pythos as a cap/mouth, but this was not the weighty, dramatic chunk of rock I wanted to balance the figures! I thought perhaps just stick them in the bloody Agora, which would suit Draco's position as rhetorician, but... well. That would have required drawing a crowd. Then - gymnasium. Huzzah. Nekkid mens. I cheated by keeping it open past the colonnades - really, I should've drawn in the building beyond. I was lazy, and put a roof on them instead. *cries a bit for the architecture* Title is taken from the plate which inspired the H/D pose (Attic, red figure, 430-500BC, so fairly contemporary for the period you wanted), the subject of which nicely combines the erastes/eromenos tradition *and* the implication of naked wrestlers. The other figures are taken from another depiction of athletes (sneaked them from the changing rooms into the sunshine). I agonised over Draco's poxy hair, even - I *wanted* a bearded, dark-haired man to make clearer his position of authority compared with Harry, but couldn't make that read as Draco. So, here he is, blond and clean-shaven. Please also forgive my loose interpretation of the seating. Basically, I think everything is a little bit wrong, but hope that overall, dear Prompter, you're not too dismayed?
Prompt: #9 submitted by a_v_y
Time-period or theme: AU - Draco's a rhetorician in antique Athens (~400 B.C) and he has his sight set on the youngling Harry
Place: either on an antique marketplace, in privacy at a big stone well or Draco visiting Harry at the gymnasium (teenagers did gymnastics naked)
Emotion: smug and seductive on Draco's part, hesitant/ reluctant but still drawn in on Harry's part
Object: Greek clothes (don't have to be detailed but I should be able to associate)
Action: seduction/ wooing
Mood: sexy, tempting, a bit reservation (Harry), confidence (Draco)
Disclaimer: This artwork is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros. Inc. No money is being made, no copyright or trademark infringement, or offence is intended. All characters depicted in sexual situations are above the age of consent.
At the Palaestra
This artwork is the sole property of the artist who created it.
Please do not use it, in whole or in part, without the expressed consent of the artist.
Title: At the Palaestra
Media: PS
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Notes: This pic nearly drove me nuts, Prompter Dear, and I'm not best pleased with it :-/. I initially got stuck on the idea of the well... and then got stuck on how bloody hard it was to find a visual reference for a well in a city. I found references to smaller wells using the top of a large pythos as a cap/mouth, but this was not the weighty, dramatic chunk of rock I wanted to balance the figures! I thought perhaps just stick them in the bloody Agora, which would suit Draco's position as rhetorician, but... well. That would have required drawing a crowd. Then - gymnasium. Huzzah. Nekkid mens. I cheated by keeping it open past the colonnades - really, I should've drawn in the building beyond. I was lazy, and put a roof on them instead. *cries a bit for the architecture* Title is taken from the plate which inspired the H/D pose (Attic, red figure, 430-500BC, so fairly contemporary for the period you wanted), the subject of which nicely combines the erastes/eromenos tradition *and* the implication of naked wrestlers. The other figures are taken from another depiction of athletes (sneaked them from the changing rooms into the sunshine). I agonised over Draco's poxy hair, even - I *wanted* a bearded, dark-haired man to make clearer his position of authority compared with Harry, but couldn't make that read as Draco. So, here he is, blond and clean-shaven. Please also forgive my loose interpretation of the seating. Basically, I think everything is a little bit wrong, but hope that overall, dear Prompter, you're not too dismayed?
Prompt: #9 submitted by a_v_y
Time-period or theme: AU - Draco's a rhetorician in antique Athens (~400 B.C) and he has his sight set on the youngling Harry
Place: either on an antique marketplace, in privacy at a big stone well or Draco visiting Harry at the gymnasium (teenagers did gymnastics naked)
Emotion: smug and seductive on Draco's part, hesitant/ reluctant but still drawn in on Harry's part
Object: Greek clothes (don't have to be detailed but I should be able to associate)
Action: seduction/ wooing
Mood: sexy, tempting, a bit reservation (Harry), confidence (Draco)
Disclaimer: This artwork is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros. Inc. No money is being made, no copyright or trademark infringement, or offence is intended. All characters depicted in sexual situations are above the age of consent.
At the Palaestra
This artwork is the sole property of the artist who created it.
Please do not use it, in whole or in part, without the expressed consent of the artist.