Fanart mostly to me is the artists personal rendition of the characters in a situation/setting/pose of their choosing.
Yes! My original belief as well! And then...
In fandoms where hand-drawn fanart isn't that prevalent, manips and icons therefore move in as the mainstay of the fanart category. Take, for instance, a fandom like Battlestar Galatica or Queer as Folk, or bandfandoms like, uh. Fall Out Boy or Good Charlotte (sorry, I'm old, ahaha!). You will find some small, tiny amount of drawn fanart; but because these fandoms are so heavily real and visual as canon, many of these fandoms find no need to see drawings/representations of the characters drawn by fellow fandomers - the characters are already visual. :D
So in these cases, manips and icons are created and widely deemed as that fandom's fanart.
Granted, for obvious reasons, I don't really participate too heavily in these types of fandoms, but I learned about it whenever I investigated fandom fanart communities. :D
Good thing (for us fanartists) is that there are some TV/media fandoms like Supernatural and Dr Who that are building their hand-drawin fanart communities and the fandomers are accepting it as part of their fandom world. Yay!
Yes! My original belief as well! And then...
In fandoms where hand-drawn fanart isn't that prevalent, manips and icons therefore move in as the mainstay of the fanart category. Take, for instance, a fandom like Battlestar Galatica or Queer as Folk, or bandfandoms like, uh. Fall Out Boy or Good Charlotte (sorry, I'm old, ahaha!). You will find some small, tiny amount of drawn fanart; but because these fandoms are so heavily real and visual as canon, many of these fandoms find no need to see drawings/representations of the characters drawn by fellow fandomers - the characters are already visual. :D
So in these cases, manips and icons are created and widely deemed as that fandom's fanart.
Granted, for obvious reasons, I don't really participate too heavily in these types of fandoms, but I learned about it whenever I investigated fandom fanart communities. :D
Good thing (for us fanartists) is that there are some TV/media fandoms like Supernatural and Dr Who that are building their hand-drawin fanart communities and the fandomers are accepting it as part of their fandom world. Yay!
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