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spaceGypsy was drawn from her focus by the voice of her instructor; Professor Ellis was observing her sketching. The Ravenclaw sighed; it was good... but not right. There was a difference, after all. "It's only good on a technical level. And it's not quite accurate. I can't get the mouth right... It just doesn't quite look like me," she said with an annoyed frown. She wasn't really an observational artist; she preferred to draw what she saw in her head. Like Crash had said last year, it was all soul. But, she had to be good at drawing from observation, too, or she'd never get the details right from her head. So she needed this... if only it weren't so bloody frustrating! "I can't tell if it's the line quality or the angle or what. But it's just... wrong. The eyes aren't much better than the mouth... although I'm pretty sure that's because of the angle. They're a bit... Asian." She didn't know what was up with that. She'd changed the angle of them a couple of times and it still hadn't fixed that particular problem. Maybe she needed to make them bigger? Rounder? But the proportions were right, so that couldn't be it... God, this was annoying. But she needed to figure it out.


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Tanna walked into her now familiar classroom with her also familiar grin on her face. Seeing her students were all accounted for she walked over to her chalkboard and wrote out Sketching enchantments. Turning to face the class she looked over at one of her NEWT students, standing off to the side of the classroom looking uncomfortable, making eye contact to ensure they understood when she would need help before starting. "Hello again students, I've been so impressed by you sketches and exercises over the past few weeks and as you can see I've hung a few of my favorites on the walls." she gestured to hung sketches from each pupil in the class before continuing. "Today we finally get into the magic behind art, enchanting your artwork. You don't get into enchanting portraits and statues until after your OWL's I'm afraid but you do get something equally fun with your sketches. But you can't just draw and expect it to work, it needs to balanced and placed in perfect perspective for it to work else you'd have a clumsy and very odd piece of art.
First, draw the background scene which your movements will take place in. If the background is to move as well draw the changes supposed to happen. For example, if you're riding down a road and want to sketch the passing scenery draw the trees, buildings, animals, etc. that passes you by.
Second, the person or object you want to move needs to have an objective, where its going, what its doing, etc. A ball rolling along a road after being thrown by a child, a quidditch player flying in the sky amid the bludgers and other players, things like that.
Third, draw these actions. I know it seems impossible but draw the the first and end results of these actions: the ball that was seemingly rolling along has a child finally catch up to it, the quidditch player catches the snitch or does a loop-de-loop, whatever your heart's desire.
And finally, the fourth and last step is the imagine the the movements that you want, the story if you will, lightly tap your sketch with your wand and speak the incantation: Concio. Since I don't own a wand I've asked one of my NEWT students to come in and help. Would you be so kind?" Tanna looked imploringly at her student who blushed at being placed in attention but stood and walked over to her before they were handed a drawn sketch.Normally she would do a sketch of the current class but since one particular Ravenclaw student was usually the only one that showed up and participated, she decided to merely draw her and her small group of friends that she had seen around her. There was the young metamorphagus in the middle, with the two Walsh twins on one side and the young male Slytherin she normally saw with her. The older student lightly tapped the parchment with their wand and carefully spoke the incantation watching with wonderment as the children came alive to smile, wave or give a bored smirk in a generally familiar way of one particular Gryffindor male. The young girl in the middle even had her hair start changing colors and lengths making her companions either roll their eyes or clap excitedly. With a smile the young professor hung her now animated sketch (gently of course, wouldn't want to disrupt the teens), on the center wall of her classroom before turning back towards the class.
"Thank you for the demonstration, your note for your class is on the desk. Now you all are gonna attempt the same. It doesn't have to be a horribly complicated image just something simple enough for you to imagine. And for an added incentive, the first person to have made a successfully moving image will be awarded a prize and house points. You may begin!"

Tanna walked into her classroom practically skipping from her great start of the new year. She went over to her chalkboard to write Basic Lines and Figures in her familiar curly script.
"Welcome back, I hope you all had a great first week of classes. I thought that since this was the first week of class that we should start with the basics!
When you first start a sketch it is a good idea to lightly draw your lines in case you need to erase any later on. A big mistake a lot of people do when they first start the outline of a sketch is they typically press down to hard with their pencil thus creating a dark line and an indention in the paper. This will not only be hard to erase later on but may damage the paper because of the indention created. Start your sketch with a harder lead pencil or just not press down to hard when you’re doing the rough outline. Use basic shapes if you have a hard time drawing an object. When first learning how to sketch, most have a hard time getting the sketch to look like what they are drawing. One way to get your sketch started is to break down the drawing using basic shapes like so," Tanna picked up the chalk and drew an oval with four straight lines: three horizontal to depict the eye, nose, and mouth region while one going vertical to split the oval in half. She then drew a series of squares, rectangles and small ovals to depict eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
"Another important measure to keep in mind is to visualize how you want your final drawing to look on your paper before starting your sketch in order to avoid coming too close to the edge of the paper or even worse, running out of room. Visually lay out how you want the sketch to look on paper then lightly draw the outline making sure to stay within an imaginary border. And finally, and most importantly, take your time when sketching. There is no time limit when it comes to creativity. I know sometimes you might get stuck, kind of like writers block, so instead of getting frustrated and feeling like you’re on some kind of schedule walk away – take a break. Come back when you feel better and if you still can’t get past that roadblock, set your sketch to the side and come back to it at a later date.
For the remainder of class I'd like you to do a basic sketch of your face and for homework I'd like you to find something, anything or anyone at all, to do a basic sketch over. The homework isn't graded its merely a tool to enable better understanding of what we do in class. When you're finished you may leave it behind or take it with you and leave." Tanna grinned and clapped softly but happily.

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Tanna set up her classroom in the first few weeks she arrived back at the castle and was now waiting on the corner of her desk for her new set of Fourth Years. From her roster she had basically the same few people from the first course, meaning barely a handful of students. But she smiled all the same and waved to each as they came in thinking that maybe this way they could all have a special connection because of it. "Hello and welcome to Art II, my name is Professor Hawthorne and I will be instructing you this year. To start the class we'll begin with the basics!" She went over to the blackboard and wrote in her curly script Basic lines and Figures.
"When you first start a sketch it is a good idea to lightly draw your lines in case you need to erase any later on. A big mistake a lot of people do when they first start the outline of a sketch is they typically press down to hard with their pencil thus creating a dark line and an indention in the paper. This will not only be hard to erase later on but may damage the paper because of the indention created. Start your sketch with a harder lead pencil or just not press down to hard when you’re doing the rough outline. Use basic shapes if you have a hard time drawing an object. When first learning how to sketch, most have a hard time getting the sketch to look like what they are drawing. One way to get your sketch started is to break down the drawing using basic shapes like so," Tanna picked up the chalk and drew an oval with four straight lines: three horizontal to depict the eye, nose, and mouth region while one going vertical to split the oval in half. She then drew a series of squares, rectangles and small ovals to depict eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
"Another important measure to keep in mind is to visualize how you want your final drawing to look on your paper before starting your sketch in order to avoid coming too close to the edge of the paper or even worse, running out of room. Visually lay out how you want the sketch to look on paper then lightly draw the outline making sure to stay within an imaginary border. And finally, and most importantly, take your time when sketching. There is no time limit when it comes to creativity. I know sometimes you might get stuck, kind of like writers block, so instead of getting frustrated and feeling like you’re on some kind of schedule walk away – take a break. Come back when you feel better and if you still can’t get past that roadblock, set your sketch to the side and come back to it at a later date.
For the remainder of class I'd like you to do a basic sketch of your face and for homework I'd like you to find something, anything or anyone at all, to do a basic sketch over. The homework isn't graded its merely a tool to enable better understanding of what we do in class. When you're finished you may leave it behind or take it with you and leave."

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Fourth Year | | Fourteen | | Ravenclaw | | Single | | Half-Blood


Lexine walked into art class and quickly took a seat beside Alice. She took quick notes of the lesson before starting on her sketch. Her lines were a lot cleaner than they were the year before and she immediately knew she was right for practising over summer break. As she continued she tried to think of someone or something she could draw for her homework. Iñigo, maybe, of course who knew if he could sit still long enough to let her draw anything... She She shrugged internally and went back to sketching out her own face.


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Fourth Year | | Fourteen | | Ravenclaw | | Dating Iñigo | | Half-Blood | | Seeker


Lexine walked into art quickly and sat down, rather tired from staying up late that night. She had nearly fallen asleep on her breakfast that morning. However, she was more awake than she had been in Potions, and was ready to begin drawing. As soon as Professor Hawthorne let them go on their own Lexine began contemplating what to do. Drawing motion would be easier sitting somewhere outside, maybe even watching a Quidditch game, so she was going to save that one for later. Drawing with a grid was rather easy, after all she'd been doing it for a while now. There wasn't a doubt in her mind that she could finish that one up quickly, plus she had no one to really draw in the classroom. She could always ask to draw Professor Hawthorne, but decided she'd rather just draw someone while sitting in the common room, she just felt awkward going up to a teacher. Drawing in a continuous line was going to be... interesting, to say the least, so Lexine decided to leave that one to her dorm, she really didn't want others to see what that was going to look like, other that the Professor, of course. The only two that were left were drawing contours and blind drawing. Lexine began her blind drawings first resulting in a bit of laughter. They basically just looked like lines and loops strewn about, something she'd definitely be working on. She then began her contour drawings, no doubt much like the continuous line drawings were going to be. She attempted to draw a vase that was set in the room, however, no matter how hard she tried it didn't look very good. Either way, Lexine continued alternating between the two types of drawings attempting to make at least one of them look good. Of course, Lexine was getting quite the kick out of some of the drawings that she was making.


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Tanna walked into her now familiar classroom with her also familiar grin on her face. Seeing her students were all accounted for she walked over to her chalkboard and wrote out Sketching enchantments. Turning to face the class she looked over at one of her NEWT students, standing off to the side of the classroom looking uncomfortable, making eye contact to ensure they understood when she would need help before starting. "Hello again students, I've been so impressed by you sketches and exercises over the past few weeks and as you can see I've hung a few of my favorites on the walls." she gestured to hung sketches from each pupil in the class before continuing. "Today we finally get into the magic behind art, enchanting your artwork. You don't get into enchanting portraits and statues until after your OWL's I'm afraid but you do get something equally fun with your sketches. But you can't just draw and expect it to work, it needs to balanced and placed in perfect perspective for it to work else you'd have a clumsy and very odd piece of art.
First, draw the background scene which your movements will take place in. If the background is to move as well draw the changes supposed to happen. For example, if you're riding down a road and want to sketch the passing scenery draw the trees, buildings, animals, etc. that passes you by.
Second, the person or object you want to move needs to have an objective, where its going, what its doing, etc. A ball rolling along a road after being thrown by a child, a quidditch player flying in the sky amid the bludgers and other players, things like that.
Third, draw these actions. I know it seems impossible but draw the the first and end results of these actions: the ball that was seemingly rolling along has a child finally catch up to it, the quidditch player catches the snitch or does a loop-de-loop, whatever your heart's desire.
And finally, the fourth and last step is the imagine the the movements that you want, the story if you will, lightly tap your sketch with your wand and speak the incantation: Concio. Since I don't own a wand I've asked one of my NEWT students to come in and help. Would you be so kind?" Tanna looked imploringly at her student who blushed at being placed in attention but stood and walked over to her before they were handed a drawn sketch. As per tradition, it was a sketch of her current Art class with her two girls together sitting down smiling and waving while her single boy stood off to the side trying to act as though he didn't want to be in the picture and only when one wasn't looking would he give a small almost wicked smirk. With a smile the young professor hung her now animated sketch (gently of course, wouldn't want to disrupt the teens), on the center wall of her classroom before turning back towards the class.
"Thank you for the demonstration, your note for your class is on the desk. Now you all are gonna attempt the same. It doesn't have to be a horribly complicated image just something simple enough for you to imagine. And for an added incentive, the first person to have made a successfully moving image will be awarded a prize and house points. You may begin!"