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Characters/Pairings: Spock, James T. Kirk, Uhura, Keenser, Enterprise, Borg, Kirk/Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Keenser
Media: pencil drawings, digitally pasted into the template
Notes/comments: Here’s the link to the blank template.
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While all artworks in this blog are my own, some of the art is fanart, i.e. it features characters and universes I do not own. Superman, Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Oracle, Spoiler, Jim Gordon, Superboy, Shift, Green Arrow, Arsenal and Sandman are owned by DC Comics. Daredevil, Spider-Man and Storm are owned by Marvel. The Jedi and Star Wars belong to Lucasfilm Ltd., Stargate Atlantis, its characters and universe to MGM Television Entertainment. Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, Scholastic, Inc. and AOL/Time Warner, Inc., The Dresden Files to Jim Butcher, Temeraire to Naomi Novik, Watership Down to Richard Adams, the Muppets to The Jim Henson Company. These drawings are not in any way connected to or endorsed by DC Comics, Marvel, Lucasfilm Ltd, MGM, Richard Adams, Jim Butcher, the Jim Henson Company, Naomi Novik, or J.K. Rowling. No copyright infringement is intended, no profit is made with this.
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February 26, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Vel Jaeger
dear ratcreature,
I stumbled upon your site today (the way my non-techie self usually finds anything), and am entranced by your work. If I may explain my interest,: I am an artist who has been cut off from my muses (I’ll spare you the medical-ese here) for 20 years now. Miraculously, I have lost about 75 pounds of flab in the past year, and as a result have begun to hear rumblings from my long-silent mentors.
my question is: what advice would you give to someone attempting such a revival of creativity? I’ve only recently returned to the fannish world, attempting to fill in some monumental gaps of history. I’ve just begun to contribute to Fanlore.org, and thanks to the encouragement of mrs.potatohead I’ve been having a wonderful time in the process. Please feel free to completely ignore this, as I’ve developed a rather thick hide over the decades.
February 27, 2012 at 1:37 am
ratcreature
hi! I’ve seen scans of some of your TOS zine fanart on Fanlore back when I edited there. How cool to see you’re still in fandom. And it’s great to hear you’re feeling inspired again. And I’m thrilled you like my art. Unfortunately my own output is rather sporadic. I lack the dedicated work ethic to make regular art…
As for advice for how to best engage in fandom as fanartist, I think that mostly depends on what kind of interaction with other fans you want, whether you only want to make art and post it, or whether you want to invest time to give the art maximum exposure and audience, whether you maybe want to use your fanart as a way to connect with other fans and have of social interactions and so on, like for example whether you like to illustrate stories or want others to write something for your art, or want to collaborate, or enjoy exchanges etc.
First, as far as posting venues for fanart go, just a blog like this one is probably not the best way, because fandom doesn’t seem to hang out on WP or such much, and gaining audience here is hard. I almost never get comments here and only use this because the categories make for a good personal archive, but crosspost in lots of places to actually interact with others.
Basically you need word of mouth for anyone to see your fanart. Since most fanart isn’t so brilliant to generate that just by being awesome in some corner on the internet (certainly that’s true for mine), fans use social networks for that, and from that have sprung the fannish places in their confusing multitude.
The main places I seek out fanart (and post) are journals (like LJ and Dreamwidth), deviantArt, Tumblr, and AO3 (that isn’t equipped to host art yet, but good for connecting art to fanfic and such). Journals are good for conversation, and much of fandom is there (so if you’d like to participate in exchanges, challenges or such, those are usually organized through journals), but they are not built for art posting. On deviantArt it is easy to post art, and to build a gallery, because it is an art-centric social network, but it’s a different slice of fandom. I find it harder to get to know people there, but then I’m less present. I do get a good number of views and favs (their version of the “like”), but not that many comments. When starting to post in either place it’s best to post/submit the art to one of the communities that exist for your fandom (or even your pairing/character in case of larger fandoms) to get others to notice and to gain friends/followers.
Personally I found it very hard to gain any audience on Tumblr just by posting art (my personal Tumblr still only has ten followers), probably because I don’t post art on a frequent schedule, but many fanartists there seem to have massive numbers of followers, so clearly it works for some. Tumblr also makes conversations hard, and it has no communities as such where you can post to a larger audience if your own is blog/name is still unknown, though many fandoms have aggregation Tumblrs where you can submit your stuff.
AO3 is not yet equipped well for art, but people browsing there for fanfic will see your art listed too, so you get audience that would otherwise not see your work. Also, if you illustrate fanfic it gets connected to the work it inspired.
So I’d just advise that to start you pick the fannish place that seems most comfortable to you and the way you do art, and start posting some. BTW, if you enjoy browsing fanart, I moderate a fanart rec community which has several hundred fanart recs since it started in 2010 (including some Star Trek recs), so following the links of the recs there you can see how other fanartists are posting their work.
–RatCreature