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[futuresoon]

I had a thought, a while back, and today I decided to look into it; I thought, huh, anime and manga fandom are kinda different from live-action fandom. More of a focus on fanart, of course, but then I started seeing stuff on the hetalia comm about local get-togethers, and pictures of those showed dozens of people, all in the same area (admittedly, the

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[th_esaurus]

The big culture-shock I had in the transition from manga/anime fandom to live-action was definitely fanart. I spent far more time looking at fanart and reading doujinshi (especially on Japanese sites) than I ever did reading fic, while in manga fandom. Same for my output - much more fanart than fic. And then when I got into live-action fandom, I got endlessly frustrated at the 'fanart' tags in communities that contained only icons or graphics or rubbishy manips. It's near impossible to find decent fanart, and this distressed me a lot for a long time. I've pretty much accepted it's not the done thing now. My own output is vastly more fic than art now, because I feel too embarrassed to draw the kind of things I used to for manga fandoms. Luckily, as you point out, the tendency is that live-action fandoms will have a higher ratio of good writers, but still. Fanart ;__; I miss you.

(I used to religiously hunt a Japanese search engine called Movies Woman Search, to try and scavenge any fanart I could for live-action shows/films, no matter how terrible it was. I think this site is now password protected, and when I discovered that, a part of me died inside.)

[futuresoon]

Live-action fandom isn't entirely bereft of fanart--I know SGA has a few, and Supernatural has some very good photomanippers. But I see far, far more fanart on the Hetalia comm than I have in any other fandom, to be sure, and I've drawn far more fanart for Hetalia than I have for pretty much anything ever. It is kind of nice, actually! Fanart provides a much quicker satisfaction than reading fic, and as for doujinshi, well. Well. *cough*

[th_esaurus]

SGA was like a godsend for fanart. There were some amazing artists! I found a couple in Iron Man fandom too, there was some really good stuff there. And then I moved on and was once more bereft ;__; I think it was just the shock of going from spending hours looking at new art every day, to getting maybe one new piece a week. If I'm lucky.