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hdcup_mod (hdcup_mod) wrote in hd_worldcup,
@ 2008-04-12 14:29:00

Entry tags:

art, prompt: coins, r, round i, team epilogue

The Price of Fulfillment - Team Epilogue
Title: The Price of Fulfillment
Team: Team Epilogue! Whoo!
Artist: ships_harry
Prompt: Coins/Pentacles
Rating: R+
Warnings: Some sadism, some bondage, ambiguous infidelity. Dial-up users - 5 large images.
Summary: Harry needs something he can't get from Ginny. She sends him to a professional, but as time goes on, the line between business and personal begins to blur.
Artist's Note: HUGE thanks to my team-mates for help with prompts, positioning, content, and the title! In other words, just about everything :).

The Price of Fulfillment

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Poll #1389
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

1. Is the author/artist true to their team? Yes/No vote ("yes" is worth 2 points, "no" is worth 0)

2. How well did the author/artist use their Prompt? 1 to 9 (1 being the least)

3. How much did you like this story/art overall? 1 to 9 (1 being the least)

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	sivullinen 2008-04-12 12:57 pm UTC (link)
	The last panel gives me chills! This was so very powerful, loved it! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you for the awesome comment! Chills? Neat! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	secretsolitaire 2008-04-12 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, this is amazing!! The art is just gorgeous; I love the composition, the way you've overlaid images and text to create an emotional impact. The third panel is very striking and suggests both the passage of time and the whirlwind of desire between them. And wow to the last panel. Very well done! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you, yay! I really appreciate what you say about the third panel in particular, because that's completely what I was going for and I'm so glad the passage of time part came through as well as the emotional/physical mess of it all :). (Reply to this) (Parent)

greenjuly
2008-04-12 03:41 pm UTC (link)

Brilliant! This was so well done. Your artwork is beautiful, and it had a great plot. I love the picture-postcard scenes from the first panel, the blended images in the third. The fourth is probably my favourite - I really like Harry, Ginny and Draco's expressions. And Scorpius! He is too cute.

The one thing I would change is the font, something neutral would have been better. But wow, good job!

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Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins

ships_harry
2008-05-22 07:44 pm UTC (link)

Thank you so much! I'm completely thrilled to hear that a plot came through - there's always that struggle to try and convey a story without spelling everything out, y'know?

I did have concerns about the font :). When picking a font, I usually end up cycling through between twenty or thirty different types, narrowing it down as I get an idea of what sort of feel I want. I kept coming back to this one. In this case, it was a conscious choice to go for the slightly unbalanced and chaotic look of this font over legibility, the unprettiness of it - it was more a visual thing than a content thing, if that makes sense?

I ran it past my team to check that it was still readable, but I do know a couple of people had trouble with browser settings, or something - something that shrank the image somehow and rendered it impossible to see the words. No idea how that works - I can only really go by my own monitor, which is big, fairly hi-res, and bright :).

For you, was the font intrusive in style, or was it more of a legibility issue?

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greenjuly
2008-05-23 06:49 pm UTC (link)

Thank you so much! I'm completely thrilled to hear that a plot came through - there's always that struggle to try and convey a story without spelling everything out, y'know?
You're welcome! And yeah, I totally understand that difficulty. Not that I've ever done fan art, but in my own stuff.

I did have concerns about the font :). When picking a font, I usually end up cycling through between twenty or thirty different types, narrowing it down as I get an idea of what sort of feel I want. I kept coming back to this one. In this case, it was a conscious choice to go for the slightly unbalanced and chaotic look of this font over legibility, the unprettiness of it - it was more a visual thing than a content thing, if that makes sense?

For you, was the font intrusive in style, or was it more of a legibility issue?
It was stylistic for me. When you have art that's so strong, I would make the text a bit more neutral to balance it out. Also, because of the way the some letters are enlarged in the font, it conjured up unfortunate associations with people wHo TyPe lIkE tHiS online. Something a little ornate is probably good (I mean, certainly you don't want it in Arial or Verdana), but if you are going to go with a trendy-type font, I'd pick one without the differing letter sizes - I've seen ones that have a similar feel, but less random caps-ness.
I understand why you chose that, though, and it's not a big deal overall.

Thanks for replying to my comment!

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	gryffindorj 2008-04-12 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	OMG Harry looking over his shoulder at the end, that look in his eye. YA! All their positions the complete detail in this. Great work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Hee, I never think I have enough detail :D. Thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nahimana 2008-04-13 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I loved this! Fantastic composition and story line; the blending of text and art has been done really well. The art itself is gorgeous - fantastic job! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, thank you! I always angst so much about the text - worry it won't look right, worry it'll get in the way, worry I'll fail to convey any sort of narrative sense - I'm so happy to hear it worked for you :). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ss_lupin 2008-04-13 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	That was gorgeous. The flow of coins in the second panel, and Draco's smile in the last... all so lovely! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:36 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! I'm really happy that Draco's smile came through when it's mostly off the side of the page - it might've been one of my favourite parts :). (Reply to this) (Parent)

dacro
2008-04-14 07:04 am UTC (link)

WOW! So many years and so much story in only a few scenes! Double wow.
I had chills (along with everyone else) at the sight of that last image.
So well done!
I love the photo album showing us cheery happy potters while things were falling apart for them. Also loved how the coins were used, and the possession that came shining out of Harry for his family, and for Draco.

Chilling yet romantic. Dude, how did you pull that off? :D

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	Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	Man, d'you know how much your last line made me squee? "Chilling yet romantic"?! That's freaking awesome! Straight out romance isn't my thing, so that thrilled me :). Thank you so much for an awesome and thoughtful comment :D. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dacro 2008-05-22 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	You are so very welcome. I was really impressed with that factor! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shyfoxling 2008-04-14 09:28 am UTC (link)
	Impressive! I like the showers of coins. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks :D. The coins were the easiest bit, in the end :). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	la_fairie 2008-04-16 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	That was sooooooooo wonderful and usually I don't like epilogue!!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Price of fulfilment, Team epilogue art for Coins ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear it worked for you despite the epilogue dislike :). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	florida_minxie 2008-04-24 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	I freaking squeed out loud, scaring both cats and children, with the last panel. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	Ee! YAY! That's such an awesome thing to read ♥♥♥. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	florida_minxie 2008-05-22 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	I shoulda known it was you. is sheepish now Lovely work, darling!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	~glomps you~ Was I sneaky? YAY! Because usually it's so easy to guess the artists, and that can take the fun out of the anonymity :D. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	florida_minxie 2008-05-22 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, you were a sneaky lil' thing on this one! Good job on that. Good job on the artwork. And, damn it, good job on making squee over a Team Epilogue post ~~'cause we all know I completely hate Ginny.~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ships_harry 2008-05-22 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Hahah, poor Ginny - she gets so much loathing for being in the way of Harry shagging the right menfolk :). Harry/Ginny is such a strange pairing to me! So confusing and left-fieldish! Heck, I would've thought Luna made more sense :) But I do like trying to fit things into canon (hence Epilogue being my first-choice team) :). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	florida_minxie 2008-05-22 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Harry/Ginny is just creepy to me. Really. The boy is doin' someone who looks so much like his Mum? shudders Ick. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ships_harry
2008-05-22 07:52 pm UTC (link)

Urgh, yes. Dear Ginny: you look like my dead Mum, and I miss her so much. Plus, I'm crazy about your family, and if I marry you, I get to have YOUR mum and dad as MY mum and dad. Two mums! Hurray! Let's breed!

Ack, ack, ack. I've read some really lovely fanon Harry/Ginny stuff (often in the context of Snarry, actually!), but it just doesn't work for me as it stands in the books. That girl needs fleshing out.

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	belleamante 2008-05-22 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. Beautiful and awesome. I love this so damn much. And not just because BDSM, especially consensual BDSM, is my biggest kink. loves That last panel. Mmmm... (Reply to this)