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Sad Occasion

Mon May 7, 2012, 4:00 PM
  • Mood: Emotional
  • Listening to: Peter Finger
  • Reading: A Clash of Kings
  • Watching: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Eating: Greek salad
  • Drinking: Cabernet
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In keeping with my journal entry, which commemorates a devout Snape fan, here are a few of my own recent faves:

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Those of you who are watching my gallery for my Snape-related HP fan-art may have seen a pattern in my recently submitted art: most drawings were commissions to illustrate a fanfiction by the lovely :iconmaevesnape:



I am very sorry to say that a close friend of hers just informed me that Claudia AKA Maeve had recently passed away. She had barely got past her 50th birthday. I loved her ideas and I loved reading the chapters of her tale which she sent me per email, so I don't think she'd posted online and I can't point you to an internet site to read them.

I don't think I have ever clicked on someone's DA site in the knowledge that they've left a virtual trace, but that their physical presence has ceased. I guess our generation may not leave stone gravestones, but rather spaces in cyberspace that our friends may visit and remember us by. It seems a strange thought to me when I recall seeing my grandparents graves, who never had a DA or facebook account, and I am now mourning a virtual friend who I never met in person, but I have a space to go on my computer and within my emails to remember her.

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* If you ask me to make artwork available as a print, please check if it uses copyrighted material. DA will not take print submissions that are based on such materials. This means, no prints of drawings based on movies or TV shows like the Harry Potter Movies, Brokeback Mountain, CSI etc. If you want a drawing as a print please note me instead.

If you want to know more about my art: :icondainterview: did a great interview with me. [link]

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:iconelenatria:
I'm so sorry, she was so very young... And seeing it from an """artistic"""" point of view, I'm really sorry that she never got to finish and post her story online, from your drawings for her it's quite obvious that she loved it a lot and worked on it for days and days. :( I'm really sorry, I just hope that dA will never die and take its dead with it. :pray:
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator May 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you! I've made illustration drawings for fanfics before, but never quite a series to follow along an entire story. So having this collab come to an end in such a sad fashion was quite stunning. I'll turn 45 myself this summer, so the death hit pretty close to home - I'm not that far off 50 myself. Shows you can never take anything for granted... I also wish she'd started to post her story (maybe on her DA profile), it would make it a place to go back to and read.
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:iconsephirayne:
*Sephirayne May 8, 2012  Professional General Artist
Very sorry to read about the loss of your friend. My thoughts to her friends and family. Its good that she has touched your life even though you have never met. She will live on in your memories.
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator May 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much for your kind words!
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:iconsephirayne:
*Sephirayne May 11, 2012  Professional General Artist
You're very welcome :hug:
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:iconvelvetsnape:
SNAPE!! >X D
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator May 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
For being such a grumpy sourpuss himself, he sure does bring people together, doesn't he?
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:iconvelvetsnape:
He had a rough life :( I liked him from the first book and then grew to love him. Such an incredible character. Being portrayed by the incredible (and sexy) Alan Rickman was as a good choice.
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:iconjvel4073:
Mood: Sadness *jvel4073 May 8, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I'm so sorry!
My Prayers goes to you and the Families of Claudia AKA Maeve had recently passed away.
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:iconellygator:
*Ellygator May 10, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much! It's been so good to see so may folks comment with so many kind words.
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