Subject: Harry Potter Roundtable Discussion II: Fan-artist’s Forum

[aah_mod]

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Topic: A Place for Fan-Artists to Discuss the Experience of Being an Artist in Fandom - proposed by raitalaHere are some potential discussion points, but really this is just a friendly space for fanartists to get together and

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[mific]

- How fests work for us fanartists

[aah_mod]

I hear you about hands! For the first 3 years of my fanart, you will notice a distinct tendency for my characters to keep their hands out of sight! :D

It is a difficult balance to strike sometimes when illustrating, between checking through for authenticity in relation to the text and just going with your own imagination. Collabs with writers while they are writing, rather than after they have posted, are good, because you can both feed in to the story. It is brilliant when a writer takes an idea from your illustration and incorporates it into their story.

With my trad media work, especially watercolours, I often use my digital camera to photograph the painting. I find that gets better results than scanning.

[yumekutteikt]

> Hard to draw with your own hand crooked in various positions in front of you at the same time!

Haha, agreed!:-D
Though I've never felt drawing hands as a burden in fact. Not that I'm good at drawing hands by any means, as I still stumble drawing hands and took hours to get satisfactory look for that body part sometimes. It's just, hand expression is very useful next to facial expression when displaying emotions of characters and it really exhilarates me when I succeed to draw some good-looking hands!:-)

Anyway, here's the reference for hands which I use:http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/
Go "Hands for Drawing", then choose the hand model(000-020) from the right pane and just drag n' move the 3-D hand model on the left.

[mific]

That's a great resource- thanks for the link!

[raitala]