Fanart Snapes

[shanti_50130]

Delurking again a minute to share something besides my own 
fanfiction updates.  heh.

One of the various Severitus/Fanfiction Addiction Feeding Yahoo 
Groups to which I belong asked for fanart pic recommendations for 
use on the home page. The request inspired me to dig out my favorite 
links once again.  For all six of you reading my fanfic 
(*snicker*), "Lost Souls Found", the first two links here are 
what "My Severus" in my story looks like, because that's what he 
looks like in my head.

I did not draw these, and believe I have given adequate credit to 
the extremely talented individuals who did--these are merely the 
links to the pages where the 'owners' have posted the pictures.  

Please be kind and leave a comment if you take the time to look at 
the pictures.  It is the only "payment" fan artists and writers 
receive for their work.

http://www.nasubionna.net/hp/characters/photosnape.html

This is by Laura Freeman. THIS is my own personal mental image of 
Severus Snape when I read the books. We all have our own, but this 
one is definitely mine. I've never seen another fanart pic that 
comes close to this relatively 'photo-realistic' image of what I 
think Severus Snape looks like in canon. She says it is based 
heavily off of a photo of Alan Rickman, with artistic liberties to 
make him match the Snape in her head. She did a brilliant job. I 
love Alan Rickman, but *in my opinion* he is a little too old, too 
heavy-set, and too "jowl-y" to truly *BE* Snape IMHO--though he's 
got the whole robes/voice/mannerisms thing down to a "T".  I do 
think he's incredibly sexy (Rickman), he's just not *quite* Snape.

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/fanq/p/e/peregrin2/sevwatercolor0001.jp
g.html

This is a watercolor portrait of "Young Severus", about mid MWPP 
era. It is absolutely stunning, it is exactly, again, how I picture 
him, and amazingly enough when viewed side-by-side you can really 
SEE the resemblance to the above drawing--I can easily imagine this 
young man growing into Laura Freeman's Snape--even though done by 
two different artists. This is done by Rebecca M. Roberts, when she 
was only 14 years old!! Now THERE is some talent!!

These two pictures combine my own personal 'mental image' of canon 
Severus Snape. *swoon*

This last one is the link to Gwyllion's LiveJournal where she had 
the very yummy picture for the "Hogwarts Swimsuit Calendar".

http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_gwyllion/42043.html

This Severus is just a teensy bit too 'conventionally' handsome for 
my personal tastes--I *like* that most women/people would not 
necessarily consider him 'hot'. *snicker* It's still very yummy, 
though, and the nose is bang-on, even better than the other two I've 
mentioned above--Severus Snape has a big old schnoz, we know it and 
we love him anyway! My Snape in my head is a bit skinnier than this 
very buff guy, though. heh. Not scrawny, but definitely very thin 
and wiry. This Snape is very 'hot' but he doesn't portray that whole 
hard-life-DE-stress-bitterness-angst-thing. Maybe, "How Snape might 
have looked if there was no Voldemort"?

Don't you think canon Snape should have scars? Something to shower 
with sympathetic kisses in rare moments of private passion...

*veg*

Anyway, just promoting other people's art that I enjoy 
tremendously.  My own personal preference in fan-art is Photo-
realistic stuff rather than Animee (spelling?) or comic-book type 
stuff, but that's just me.

Just wanted to 'share' with my list sisters. :)

Shanti
http://www.fanfiction.net/~lisasimaginings
http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/authors.php?no=13713