I tumble. You know. And I tumbled upon this fantastic, amazing jacket/coat/robe. I love how heavy it looks, how much rich ornamentation there is, how it holds a shape, the long-long sleeves. This kind of look always reminds me of the fashion/clothing of witches and wizards in the Wizarding World.
As when tumbling, it is difficult to find out the actual source of what’s posts. You’re mostly tumbled over to another tumblr. Then over to a pintarest. Then back to a tumblr. Search-By-Image on Google gave me the most information on it. It is, according to Vogue, a French ‘shawl’ from the 1880s, and inspired by eastern fashions.
The point is, I had to draw it! Plus I got a chance to draw Niobe’s beautiful dreadlocks. She’s holding a quill, not her famous Verbatis here, but rather something more casual. As Niobe is a witch for the Daily Prophet, I feel that a quill better represents her role in the world and as a witch than a wand sometimes. And it’s hard to tell, but she’s missing the ring finger on her left hand – a casualty of her too-bold guts and glory out in the field.
Niobe Thursby is one of my original characters at Absit Omen Harry Potter RPG.
Tagged with: Absit Omen • my art • Niobe • Role-playing
You are delving into something very cool. I’ve noticed lately you are experimenting more with fashion on your characters. The detail in this one is just great.
Thanks. For some reason I’m very concerned with Wizarding fashion, in that verse. The books don’t deal with it at all, just calling everything ‘robes’. And the movies do a fantastic job designing the wardrobe of the older characters. The older ones seem to be the only ones who choose to dress particularly wizardly – McGongagal, Snape, the Malfoys, Dumbledore of course, etc. But the kids dress in street clothes, even very wizardy Ron.
I digress. But yes! Wizard fashion. I think it strikes me because Wizard culture is so rich and sometimes very absurd and arbitrary. I like clothes that have lots of structure and the shapes they make, and all the great seams and notions and details that make a garment unique and interesting to look at.