Thirty Days of Fanart Meme: Day 13

13 – Are you inspired more by canon or by other fanworks when you create art? Has creating art for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

I'm more often inspired by fanworks than by canon, especially if the canon is already visual like live action or comics. Unfortunately I only rarely get a real urge to draw (hello sloth, old friend), and then it is mostly because I wish to illustrate a scene that was vividly described and put an image in my head. So if canon is already visual that doesn't happen all that often. I'm not good at imagining scenarios or stories myself, so if the visuals are already there more often than not I don't feel like doing more. Most verbal stories don't provoke that visual urge either, but some do.

I don't think making fanart changes my view of the source much, except that I pay closer attention to detail.