FANART LOVE MEME

[glockgal]

How much do I love the new 'edit comment' feature that LJ's sporting? Thos Thsi Tihs much. XDAlso, I feel like a total wretched cad for my last post. Hey Glock, let's see how sad and unhappy you can make people about their art! It isn't enough for artists to beat themselves up constantly over their art skills, I think it'll be better to create a

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[cnary_crem_dght]

Comment with your name and say why you love your own art/making art.

I love art. Period, I love looking at it, touching it, smelling it, occasionally tasting it (thank you tate museum!) and hearing it! I love being able to put feelings down on the paper and have that become an experience for someone else.

I love fan art because it's narrative and doesn't take itself to seriously. I can enjoy it without digesting it too much.

I love painting because it's a completely physical and emotional experience for me.

[glockgal]

sdfhsdj honestly babe, where do I begin with your art. You have inspired me so much in terms of style and colour. Colour especially for pale skintones - that blend of colours from all sides of the rainbow in order to create that GORGEOUS luminousity is just a feast for my eyes.

And I give you mad respect for being such an artist, not only in what you produce, but how you think, feel....everything. You have an energy that's mighty inspiring to others, I can tell you that!

[elaby]

I love the sketchy smoothness of your lines, and how you make the most of light colors next to dark colors.

[artisticentropy]

...I want to taste art. ;_;

I love your art style. I love that your figures are "real" in a way that isn't strictly photographically "real", but that they feel even more so sometimes. You don't shrink away from depicting things how they are - the ugly with the beautiful. I have a LOT of respect for you as an artist, and as a person. :) Your images are as much an emotional experience for viewers as they are visual ones.

[hp5freak]

While I am not sure that I count as an artist, per se, I will comment about liking what I do...

Right now what I like about what I do is that it's fairly unique.

I like taking an idea, being able to graph it out on paper, and then work it up in yarn into something that can be displayed or used. I like that my meager abilities to graph an idea have evolved from just letters 10 years ago to more pictures. Even the style of the letters has changed...

And I LOVE how the true fanartists inspire me to create more things...

[cnary_crem_dght]

You're totally a true fan artist! I totally can't knit anything besides a scarf! I love the different kinds of art people do that is fanart. I love the fact that you can change colors in the middle of a project. Seriously yarnware is amazing.

[hp5freak]

GOSH! Thank you!

I must admit that I'm shocked that people responded. :D

[elaby]

Wow, I'd never seen your work before, but you make beautiful things! It's really incredible how you can graph something and then actually figure out how to make it work in knitting and crochetting. Knowing only a tiny bit about how yarnwork is done, I can't even imagine how you do it! It's so cool!

[darthneko]

Now, see? I missed the flagellation post, so I just get to sneak in on the love instead.

I don't think I'm that well known anymore since falling out of fandom, but that's okay. I like my art (usually). I like that I'm always willing to learn new things, and that everything I learn always settles back into my general style after a shakedown period. I like that I've learned how to erase, how to let go, how to redraw and be happy with it. I like that I've learned how to experiment and see things in new ways. There's lots of thing I want to do better, but overall, I'm glad that I can look back on 90% of my old stuff and still not cringe, not even if it was year ago.

[glockgal]

YAYYYY!! *smoochies*

Have I ever told you this? You were one of the Biggies on my list, when I was just creeping into fandom. I browsed Digital Midnight constantly for inspiration and admiration. I fell madly, deeply in love with that oh, so clean and precise line art you do (I think I've blathered on to you about this before, ahaha) and I still remember your art from Nanomango in...2004? 2006? I can't quite remember what year, but the art imprinted itself in my brain as something to aspire to.

That I had the honour and privilege to draw for you is like. AMAZING. I am so glad you are proud of your work and I really never ever want you to stop!!

[twilightsorcery]

I didn't know you before this -- we've got no fandoms in common -- but I went poking through your gallery, and all I can say is, uh, wow. You make it look so effortless, no matter what the style or genre. Color me impressed. :D

[tammylee]

But I'll always remember you from the Master/Apprentice ML where you wowed me with your Obi-Wan. (AND OF COURSE WE ARE NOW BRELLA SISTAHS! How crazy is that? =p)

[elaby]

What a wonderful meme!

I like the way I draw eyes, and hair, and arms. I'm pleased that I've been able to branch out into new mediums lately (Photoshop and markers, for example) and come out with something that I'm pretty proud of.

[elaby]

Thank you so much! That really makes me happy to hear :)

[glockgal]

Eeee thanks for the pimp! Make sure to pimp yourself personally cause the people who love you are the people who watch your journal, fweehehe. Artists are so darn modest! *pinches your cheeks*

And your art!! I love that you are distinctly anime and make no excuses about it and I think that's what makes your art stronger and more defined. Too many people are wishy washy about it and it cheapens their style, but you have a great confidence in your art that allows you to experiment and try new stuff. Which is AWESOME, cause arting is all about growing.

Also, your eye for movement is wonderful! You definitely give the characters a sense of life in the way you draw their figures; I appreciate that the mostest!

[mon_starling]

I love your art because it's got character, real personality, and a sort of loose, free colouring style that I just can't figure out but that looks just darling and wonderful.

Erm... as for me, I like my art because it's shamelessly self-indulgent. I just draw what I like, which is basically pretty people (self-indulgence is also a drawback, of course, but I am focusing on the positive here XD), and I like my lines and the way I draw hair and how I always try to portray that there's intelligence behind the eyes and a story behind the face. I like sloppy but mysterious better than polished and empty of feeling.

[bhanesidhe]

mmm, lets see. The thing I think I liked best about your art is... well it's weird, not that your art is weird, but it's just weird that a lot of what you draw is how I see things in my head. I think it's amazing that what you can take from text and make into lines and tones and the like. That's an amazing skill. There is never a time where I look at your art, finished drawing or sketch, where I have to try and figure or suppose who or what's going on. It's like a whole new way of communicating you've invented with your talent alone.

That's what I've always loved about your art :D

[macchiatoh]

I love your art because you draw such smooth smooth lines and you draw characters exactly the way I imagine them. You have a distinct style- the way you draw jawlines and noses is ♥

[bzzinglikeneon]

I have fangirled you from just about the moment I got into HP, which has been way longer than I want to think about, ahaha. You have such great linework, and your art is so brilliantly distinctive. You're seriously incredible, and a real inspiration to me.