art meme, art 2003-2009

[ratcreature]

I gacked this from glockgal, but the original empty template comes from Kamaniki at dA. The time span for chronicling art in this meme fit me well, because I started posting fanart in 2003, so I took it as a sign that I ought to be a memesheep.

Comments

[cereta]

I remain very proud to have inspired some of your art, and I still love love love your comics work.

[ratcreature]

Thanks!

[omens]

I am always so envious of this meme when I see it posted! I'm not sure I can really dig up more than a handful of things for 1999-2009! But anyway, what I wanted to say was: that Robin/Superboy picture is ridiculously hot. I also love the new things you have been trying in the last couple years (acrylics and the scratching(?) with Nightwing!)... those HP animals <3<3

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy my art. I always feel ridiculously non-prolific, in many of these memes, like I couldn't even do the other one I've seen around that was monthly. I also felt really old when I downloaded the template, because the artist who made it posted her art from when she was ten(!) in the 2003 section (which is I assume the reason it starts in 2003 rather than in 2000 for a decade meme).

I can only take partial credit for the hotness, because that Tim/Kon picture is closely based on a gay wallpaper image. It initally was just to practice using my tablet without a scanned pencil drawing, but I was completely losts without some kind of help, so I basically drew over a photo i my style, while of course adding the uniforms and changing faces a little too.

I really liked how it turned out but wasn't sure whether it would be seen as okay to post, so I did a poll, and most seemed to think yes, so I did, while of course linking the wallpaper in question in every place I posted it. I mean, I didn't want to end up on one of these strange threads you sometimes see on fandom wank and elsewhere about digitally drawn art someone posted that go "this fanart just looks like (celebrity) photo X! they are sucky, cheating plagiarists!"

[omens]

Ten! Hehehe, oh yikes. I guess it's easier to be profilic and keep your art organized when you're in school. Was for me anyway!

That's what I did when I started drawing with a tablet, too, though I don't think I ever actually finished anything. It's good practise, and the colouring is the hard part of digital drawing, imo anyway. Hehe, wank avoidance, oh fandom. <3

[ratcreature]

I also think it is good practice to credit sources, so I'd have probably linked anyway, but yeah, there was definitely wank avoidance strategy involved. At least with putting the technique and the link to the photo right in the artist's note, nobody could possibly get into a tizzy about it looking similar to the photo and thus being somehow "fake" as a drawn art.

Though I can't quite wrap my head around how those people think drawing/painting in general works, especially as fewer seem to mind when traditional media fanart is recognizably based partially or fully on screen caps or promo photos, though actually I've seen that in feedback to some traditional media fanartists too, that feedbackers complained how their art looked like they used photo references, and that they were somehow cheating or something. It was completely baffling.

[omens]

Agreed, yeah. I think a lot of people don't get the whole reference/stock photo thing, if I recognise a promo photo I might think "boring" but "cheating"..? Pfffff.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

What a nifty art retrospective! And those kisses are very inspiring.

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed them.

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

AUGH I love how your use of digital colours are not wishy-washy in any way. Everything is graphic and bold and just works so well.

And that dodo! XD

[ratcreature]

Hee. That's actually supposed to be a diricawl not just a plain dodo. His companion just vanished in that puff of feathers he looks at (in the full picture you can see a predator lurking in the undergrowth).

I think it never occurred to me to try to do digital paint with many mixed colors and nuances like I automatically do with acrylics. I have always admired people who can mimic real paint with digital tools, but it's so much easier to be just graphic and go for an intentional comic coloring with just a few shades, and since I was drawing comic characters anyway, it just fit. But I'm happy to hear it works for you.

[iamza.livejournal.com]

I like how your icons have become more detailed over time. But, well, you already know I'm a fan of your icons. :-)

And what rubynye said -- particularly that Tim/Kon picture!

[ratcreature]

Yeah, the icons have gotten more detailed, though now I often feel sorry that they end up so small, instead of happy that it hides the sloppy lineart!

I'm glad you like the kisses. I just can't get more explicit than that, even though I know shippy art is popular (and I like it too), so I mostly with me characters have to be content with mere cuddling or groping while most of their clothes are still on...

[sholio]

Ooh, that's really cool to see all laid out like that -- the evolution of the icons is especially dramatic, as they get more polished and detailed through the years!

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I think it is because with 127 icons by now my cartoon avatar is the thing I've drawn most often, so it has gotten quite a bit more fluid, whereas for most of the rest my sloth-like (non)work ethic means that I don't actually have done a lot of practice drawings or anything.

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

That was really cool, and I have always loved your icons - they so rock! Makes me want to slap my own artistic muse back in line now....

And, um, if you ever want to illustrate anything out of my stories, I'd grovel be truly honored. =^.^=

[ratcreature]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear you enjoy them.

And you totally should do more art. I don't know whether I've ever said, but I remember when I read Untamed parts in your journal I came across some of your animal drawings and I was very impressed. I always suck at fur and such, because I just don't have the patience.

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

It isn't patience - it's anal retentive OCD-ness in all of the meelions and meelions of bitty pen strokes.... ;)

And a touch of insanity. It helps. :D