brightknightie | FK fanart (It can happen!)

If we all worked together, do you think that we might muster a roster of excellent Forever Knight fanart works sufficient for a month as a volunteer recommender on

fanart_recs? I'll do the writing and posting, if needed, if together we can gather enough worthy graphics.

FK has always been a primarily text-based fandom, in part because its heyday came and went on dial-up modems. We just didn't have the technology to share pictures. We've had artists, though! Dorothy E. painted some oil portraits. Ann L. drew the covers on my most beloved Susan G. zines. Almost every zine had some original art (heck, I inked two mediocre graphics for the Tojours Lacroix zine myself — no, seriously, I did! a Fleur portrait and a silhouetted Lacroix with a rose; I still have my original watercolor of the Fleur portrait somewhere, but goodness knows where). Remember the gentleman who drew the Forever Janette webcomic a few years ago? And Deire contributed an N&N illustration to FKFicFest in 2013!

If we could gather enough compelling art links in time, we could volunteer for the month of May, and perhaps raise interest on the way into FKFicFest sign-ups...? Just a thought.

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What qualifies as fan art here? There are some good collages; but a lot of people don't consider manips to be "art". Actual drawn (or painted) art is not so common.

But there is some: let me think. (These are recs, right? You're not asking us to whip out a paintbox ourselves?)

:-) If people would like to draw or paint brand-new FK art at any time, they would be very welcome! :-)

Yes, I'm thinking of recommendations only, not of creating new items. Four recommendations are the minimum required for a monthly sign-up in this community (one per week).

Almost all the artworks recommended in this community are high-quality paintings or drawings. I've seen a few textile/fiber constructs recommended, also. Usually, the rec subjects were archived on Deviantart (which seems presently to be to visual fandom what the AO3 is to narrative fandom). I've never seen a manip recommended, myself, though technically they're permitted; I'd want any recommended manip to be highly transformed (much more than a collage).

From their community statement: "You can rec drawn and painted fanart (whether traditional or digital media), photomanips, sculptures, fiber art, etc. Multimedia works that have a significant fanart component are also okay to rec, e.g. fan comics or story illustrations. You cannot rec fanfic, vids, icons, picture macros, costume designs, or fannish music/audio productions."

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Chris Rosmini's "Idyll with Vermin" is a Tracy/Screed painting on the Rat Patrol faction site.

Then there are Dorothy Elggren's paintings: these are on her Loftworks website, linked off the index page. They're works in oil: "Nicolas de Brabant", "LaCroix", "Janette", and "Vachon"; the first two are (or were) available as prints. The pictures in the gallery are thumbnails; so click to see them full sized.

I'll see if I can think of any more.

Re-reading, I see you already mentioned Dorothy's paintings. Not our strongest point as a fandom, paintings. :(

There is some fanzine art with half-decent repros on Fanlore; but I don't know if that would be acceptable. If Fanlore repros are okay, then you could look at the following:

Heather Bruton's "Amantes de la Noche #1" and #2 (front) and back; as well as "The Company of Night"

the cover of issue #3 of Dark Fantasies, which is a painting of Nick done by Betsy Mott

Ann Larimer's ink drawings for the covers of Susan Garrett's False Heart and its sequel Kind Soul; also wraparound covers for the collection Daydreams and Nightmares and Susan's Dreaming of the Knight (eventually rewritten as the tie-in novel Intimations of Mortality, which had a totally different cover)

Mmm ... you can check out the rest of what they have here. These are just assorted fanzine illos and covers, and not all qualify as "art" by any means.

Aaaaand you also mentioned Ann's covers already. *headdesk*

Collages vary enormously in quality, as you know. Most FK ones are simple photomontages; and most of those are quite amateurish. You might check out:

Time Jordan's collages on her Immortal Beloveds faction site—sized a bit small for modern computers but still good, esp. (in my opinion) the one of Schanke

Kristin Harris's wallpaper, which is indexed by character ; I particularly like "Torn", "Desire", "Forbidden Fruit", and "Sister of Knight" (but you'll no doubt have your own preferences)

...but goodness knows where.

You need help finding it? =D

In my closet? :-)

It's not a good enough likeness to merit excitement, I'm afraid. I'm not that good a painter. It's just a pensive young woman with honey-colored hair in a certain blue dress. If a viewer didn't happen to recognize the costume, the viewer wouldn't necessarily know that the subject was Fleur, and therefore that she's supposed to look like Claire Rankin. :-)

I don't mind... :D

It sounds like a beautiful piece of artwork. :)

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