About Fanart
Dec. 17th, 2011 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loaded_marchIn the past, I've worked with talented artists, both professional and working-to-get there as a freelance graphic novels editor. Once upon a time, I could actually sketch something a bit above stick figures and paint scenes that weren't a blotch on the sheet. These days, I'm completely out of practice, lucky if I can draw those stick figures, and the only painting I've done in the last while was the bright red of my new bathroom's walls.
I know how much work is involved in doing up a simple body figure on an eight-by-ten. It doesn't matter if it's pencil or charcoal or blue lines and ink. It takes time and concentration and talent and skill to get an image on paper -- just as much, if not more, as it takes to get words on the page.
For that reason, I have a tremendous amount of respect for artists, and it's why I am flattered in a way that words can't express when someone asks me if they can draw a scene from any of the parts of Loaded March.
I have absolutely no objection to that. In fact, if anything, I'll probably trip over myself in excited, clapping happiness, and will have a hard time stopping myself from suggesting scenes that I really, really would like to see somewhere other than in the inside of my head.
If you're someone who would like to draw something from Loaded March or from anything else that I've written, I am (to borrow a phrase), dead chuffed.
A big thank you to those who want to draw something from LM (or anything else).
The only things that I would ask are these:
1) if there is a scene that's missing details, or isn't detailed enough, or you have questions about, let me know and I can elaborate on it and offer more description.
2) let me know where it's been posted and from which part of LM (or other work) that it's from so that I can link to it both on LJ and on AO3 so that you can get love from the people who have been reading the series -- believe me, a lot of people would do the same excited, clapping happiness dance that I'll be doing at seeing the artwork.
3) link back to LM (or other work) that the scene is from.
That's it. Oh, and if you're all right with it, PM me some way to get in touch with you so that I can do that excited, clapping happy dance personally. To, you know, thank you!
I know how much work is involved in doing up a simple body figure on an eight-by-ten. It doesn't matter if it's pencil or charcoal or blue lines and ink. It takes time and concentration and talent and skill to get an image on paper -- just as much, if not more, as it takes to get words on the page.
For that reason, I have a tremendous amount of respect for artists, and it's why I am flattered in a way that words can't express when someone asks me if they can draw a scene from any of the parts of Loaded March.
I have absolutely no objection to that. In fact, if anything, I'll probably trip over myself in excited, clapping happiness, and will have a hard time stopping myself from suggesting scenes that I really, really would like to see somewhere other than in the inside of my head.
If you're someone who would like to draw something from Loaded March or from anything else that I've written, I am (to borrow a phrase), dead chuffed.
A big thank you to those who want to draw something from LM (or anything else).
The only things that I would ask are these:
1) if there is a scene that's missing details, or isn't detailed enough, or you have questions about, let me know and I can elaborate on it and offer more description.
2) let me know where it's been posted and from which part of LM (or other work) that it's from so that I can link to it both on LJ and on AO3 so that you can get love from the people who have been reading the series -- believe me, a lot of people would do the same excited, clapping happiness dance that I'll be doing at seeing the artwork.
3) link back to LM (or other work) that the scene is from.
That's it. Oh, and if you're all right with it, PM me some way to get in touch with you so that I can do that excited, clapping happy dance personally. To, you know, thank you!
