A question for the artists...

[burntcopper]

(And no, this does not include me - when I drew, I always required someone in front of me, in pose, and the most I ever changed was hair colour and bringing in the gut a bit)

Those of you that do fanart from books - and yes, I've got Harry Potter stuff in mind at the moment - do you have specific people in mind when you draw? And when the films/adaptations come out, do the references change? Because the thing with fanart based on tv shows and movies, like BtVS or Alien, you *have* to make it look like the actors otherwise it could be any old art. I was looking through Friede's stuff (does the artwork on copperbadge's Stealing Harry series), and it's interesting, because her Remus and Sirius and Snape, though conforming to the descriptions JK wrote, are clearly *not* Thewlis, Oldman and Rickman. Her Harry, Neville, Parvati and Draco, though, are clearly influenced by the actors. She's done some very good Thewlis-as-Remus, though. And one that came out more like Rickman-as-Remus, too. :g:. Which makes you think that Alan Rickman would have done equally well as Remus, but then we couldn't have him gloriously chewing scenery as Snape. I'm definitely pondering the portrayal of Oldman-as-Sirius, since I've seen very little fanart that portrays Sirius in the moth-eaten post-Azkaban mode. Does it exist?

Comments

[andromakie.livejournal.com]

Hey girl. Where did you find Jonathan Pryce singing Blow, Gabriel, Blow? That version's gotta be wild!

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

suprnova.org has the De-Lovely soundtrack on it. And yes, it is impressive. Though if you want sheer drop-dead 'guh', try Sheryl Crowe's Begin the Beguine.