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Realistic people II

~Keijunlilja:iconKeijunlilja: reports, 11h 15m ago
A follow-up to the news article 'Realistic people'.
Gorgeous pictures of realistic looking humans, done with different kinds of techniques.

Illustration Monthly - September

*gorjuss:icongorjuss: reports, October 5
Promoting the digital & traditional ILLUSTRATION galleries here on DA !
(and all submitted in August!)

Feature "Promote a Fellow Deviant"!

*TimeFalcon:iconTimeFalcon: reports, October 4
Thumbshare forum participants promoted work from others' galleries instead of their own

Green Deviations Feature

=Holly6669666:iconHolly6669666: reports, October 5
I posted on the forum asking people to show me their green deviations and I got a lot of very good green deviations. Please show your support for these artists by faving their art and faving this article.

Imagine the Imagination

*gromyko:icongromyko: reports, October 4
Art is distinctively a product of imagination, of that faculty of the mind which has to do with perceiving images, —the image of one thing in the form of another. While science, therefore, may find a single form interesting in itself, art, at its best, never does. It looks for another form with which the first may be compared

ART AND REALITY

*gromyko:icongromyko: reports, October 1
There is no meaning in talking about art without imagining persons, their behavior, things and concrete situations.

September 2008 Daily Deviations

^limnides:iconlimnides: reports, October 1
A collection of the Daily Deviations I've featured for the month of September.

The Unseen Artist Feature #01

=AlectorFencer:iconAlectorFencer: reports, September 30
A small collection of wonderful artwork which definately deserves more attention.

Halloween Makeup on a Budget

*sweetgreychaos:iconsweetgreychaos: reports, September 29
Halloween makeup on a budget! How to shop, what to get, and how to get the best results out of what you're using. Halloween for the cheap.

Traditional News This Week

Green Deviations Feature

=Holly6669666:iconHolly6669666: reports, October 5
I posted on the forum asking people to show me their green deviations and I got a lot of very good green deviations. Please show your support for these artists by faving their art and faving this article.

Illustration Monthly - September

*gorjuss:icongorjuss: reports, October 5
Promoting the digital & traditional ILLUSTRATION galleries here on DA !
(and all submitted in August!)

Realistic people II

~Keijunlilja:iconKeijunlilja: reports, 11h 15m ago
A follow-up to the news article 'Realistic people'.
Gorgeous pictures of realistic looking humans, done with different kinds of techniques.

Feature "Promote a Fellow Deviant"!

*TimeFalcon:iconTimeFalcon: reports, October 4
Thumbshare forum participants promoted work from others' galleries instead of their own

moleskine: between pages

*pir-anha:iconpir-anha: reports, October 5
Featuring a varied range of moleskine drawings, paintings and collages.

Dream Keeper by Yurla

*PrettyYuna:iconPrettyYuna: reports, October 6
Winner of Month Three of my Feature's Contest, ~Yurla gets a feature article of her work.

Contest another new date!!

~ZIMxSAM:iconZIMxSAM: reports, 8h 37m ago
animation or traditional art contest

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The novel side of fan art

=elegaer:iconelegaer: reports, October 3, 2006
So much of the fan art on deviantArt is based on comics and cartoons, but actually there's a huge amounts of wonderful deviations based on books out there. Yes, really there is. And it's not just swathes of pictures of Severus and Harry. Really.

So I thought I'd bring you a series of book-based fan art features, a few books each time. Go forth and celebrate the diversity and beauty of fan art!

In this first issue, I'm going to look at 3 books - Robin Hobb's fantasy novels, Jane Austen's classics, and Watership Down, a classic children's book.

Let's go!



- Sci-fi / Fantasy: Robin Hobb's Farseer / Liveship Traders / Tawny Man trilogies

The Fool. Where else could we start? One of the most enigmatic characters of any fantasy series, I think – and that reflects in the wide range of pictures of him we see here on deviantArt:

(by =greenfroggies ~Filoscuro ~elieri ~TakikoKyuuketsuki and =Elerrina respectively)



Then my favourite character, The Fitz, and of course, Nighteyes, always by his side:

(by ~TakikoKyuuketsuki ~arkoniel ~Strim and ~DragonBehin respectively)



Who could look at ~ChildOfPuck's picture of the tormented Liveship Paragon without feeling his pain?



And ~cm1greenbear's is the best picture of Malta Vestrit I've ever seen – somehow it shows both the childish Malta and the growing-up Malta:



To finish, please full view *Crooty's beautifully drawn almost child-like *quadriptych* of Nettle's skill dreams:





- Classics: Jane Austen

We start with Sense and Sensibility. Here's Marianne, drawn as Kate Winslet, by ~MissMellie. She says the picture isn't very good, I say it captures an Austenesque-mood perfectly.



And here's some great costume sketches from *Hillary-CW:



On to Pride and Prejudice. Mr Darcy. This is where half the female population swoons, though luckily not me or else we wouldn't get much further. Here are ~sive's atmospheric renditions:



And here is ~lorneniesart's beautiful watercolour containing the object of his affections:



And finally a wonderful – and rare – piece of digital art by ~adoration:





- Children's books: Watership Down by Richard Adams

If anyone is around the same age as me, and got taken to see the Watership Down animated film as a small child, these will just reach out to you at some unconscious level. They just brought back all the emotions I felt as a small kid seeing this film, learning for the first time (and it really was the first time!) that not everything has a happy ending, that bad things can, and do, happen.

First of all, I have to show you =AmandaRobbins amazing digital pictures, "Frith's Blessing" and "The Prince's Invitation":



They can only be followed by one of the most amazing pictures I've seen on deviantArt, a mix of fan art, knotwork and beautiful use of colour, "Bright Eyes" by *swandog:



I love ~ChibiMaryn's digital picture whose style is based on the dreamy-tribally-animated section at the start of the film:



Here is Frith and Inle by =kittehness:



And what better to conclude this article than the Black Rabbit, a beautiful and emotional picture by ~ZerikaZaheroux:





Well, hopefully you've all enjoyed the fan art for these three books – though I do admit to occasionally dipping into their movie adaptations.

Watch out for the next lot!

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`bananaprincess:iconbananaprincess: Oct 3, 2006, 11:58:39 AM
I'll admit seeing "fan art" in the title made me wary, but you've done a very good job with this! Nice write-up and selections. :)

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=elegaer:iconelegaer: Oct 3, 2006, 12:07:18 PM
Thank you! I'm kind of hoping to show that there are some amazing things in some parts of the fan art section ;)

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=Breogan:iconBreogan: Oct 3, 2006, 12:09:44 PM
Congrats! ;)
Well done and very interesting :D

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^misskittyoooo:iconmisskittyoooo: Oct 3, 2006, 12:18:38 PM
I never really thought of watership down as a kids tale.
I was older when I first read the book and saw the movie, and I doubt seeing rabbits getting snared and torn apart would have filled my childhood dreams with the kinds of bunnies parents would hope for.

Anyway, Ima fan of fanart and this is a great selection.
Well done feature thingy!

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=elegaer:iconelegaer: Oct 3, 2006, 12:40:07 PM
I saw the film when I was about 4, which was rather character-forming! I guess that's why I see it as a childrens' book first of all - we all also get to read the book at school in one year or another.

I'll try and find a more representative childrens' book for next time - they provide so many beautiful illustrations to adore!

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=starrynienna:iconstarrynienna: Oct 3, 2006, 12:50:24 PM Mood: Adoration
Such a wonderful selection, dearie! What a great idea! Hope you'll be doing this more often. :) I was especially glad to see Pride and Prejudice and the Fool chosen. Again, you found very delicate pictures. Thank you for this nice showcase!
^misskittyoooo:iconmisskittyoooo: Oct 3, 2006, 1:44:05 PM
You got to read watership down in school?
Lucky! I would have loved to have been able to read that one.
I got stuck with Call it Courage (which most people havent even heard of).

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$y2jenn:icony2jenn: Oct 3, 2006, 4:35:28 PM Mood: Adoration
This was a wonderful article! And the featured deviations are beautiful. I had a really, really good time readin this! :love:

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~frodo-lives:iconfrodo-lives: Oct 3, 2006, 5:10:49 PM
Weeeee! Great article!

So - when are you getting on to the big Mr T? :D

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