Just like Rowling's detailed descriptions of the Wizarding World, GrandPre always reflected that in her equally detailed work. There's just something so iconic about it. MinaLima, the prop and graphic design studio responsible for the art seen in the Potter movies is also releasing their own illustrated version of Sorcerer's Stone in October.īut for the fans that grew up with the original Potter covers, they still cherish GrandPre's work.
In recent years Scholastic has re-released the series with new illustrators Kazu Kibuishi and Brian Selznick, for the 20th anniversary editions. Unfortunately the new generation of readers who pick up the Potter series won't see GrandPre's work at all. The U.K.'s copies are without chapters drawings as well. In the U.K., Bloomsbury, Scholastic's English counterpart, commissioned a bunch of illustrators to create the covers for their original copies such as Thomas Taylor, Cliff Wright, Giles Greenfield and Jason Cockcroft. Unlike her English counterparts, GrandPre was the only one to have illustrated all seven Potter books in America.
"I'd say that's the best part of working on Harry Potter-that you have so much wonderful stuff to work with," she said. "It was basically just a starting point for me to create the look of Harry." She also said she updated Harry appearance in each book to reflect him aging. "I used myself and adapted some of my features to maybe what a boy of that age would look like," she told Scholastic. When GrandPre was first drawing Harry she actually modeled him after herself. Related: Harry Potter Fans: You Can Now Take Hogwarts Classes Online Most of the books took her a couple of months at most to complete the cover and all its chapters. On the classic cover of Sorcerer's Stone, Harry is trying to catch the Snitch, with the three-headed dog concealed under Hogwarts and a unicorn running to the Forbidden Forest.
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