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A feature showing a selection of the best entries for the official Okami contest, based on technical and artistic merits.

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Fan Art Community Newsletter #4

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The 4th Edition of the Fan Art Community Newsletter:
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Monkey See Monkey Do. Monkey is Unoriginal.

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Resubmitted version of my old article. The old one will be deleted. :)

_Creativity + Fanart_

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Fanarts featuring an own and often unique style

Fanart of the Fab and Often Forgotten

*fritchie:iconfritchie: reports, March 31
Over 100 different fanart deviations from nostalic cartoons and classic memories in animation.

To name a few, Rockadoodle, Pink Panther, An American Tail, Disney, Johnny Quest, Captain Planet, Wheres Waldo, Garfield, Dr Suess, Muppets, Tom & Jerry, Rainbow Bright, Ferngully, Casper....tons from EVERYWHERE!

I garuantee you will find something that you will truly enjoy. Support the artists by letting them know what you think!

Hidden Gems of Fan Art: INVADER ZIM

*HinoNeko:iconHinoNeko: reports, March 26
A supersized collection of Invader Zim fanart with 100 faves or less? Whatever shall we do?

Fan Art Community Newsletter #3

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The 3rd Edition of the Fan Art Community Newsletter:
Official news from the Fan Art Gallery paired with sections contributed by the Fan Art Community!

Hidden Gems of Fan Art: DOCTOR WHO

*HinoNeko:iconHinoNeko: reports, March 19
A big ol' pile of art inspired by the Doctor and his friends. "Doctor who?" Excatly! :[)

Some of the best painting

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Small a previous one of some super artists here of DeviantART, appreciates it! :)

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Okami feature

*Sariachan-KokiriLeaf:iconSariachan-KokiriLeaf: reports, May 10
A feature showing a selection of the best entries for the official Okami contest, based on technical and artistic merits.

Music from Penny Lane: The Beatles Fan Art

=BlackPeregrin:iconBlackPeregrin: reports, May 11
A collection of fan-created artwork featuring the musical band The Beatles.

Hidden Gems of Fan Art: PIXAR

*HinoNeko:iconHinoNeko: reports, May 14
Playthings and fishies and rodents, oh my! It's A Pixar-flavored fanart feature!

Gaming Fan Art Features #11-Wario

*GameFreak38:iconGameFreak38: reports, May 13
A collection of art of the famous rival of Mario.:)

Charmed theme Art Contest by CharmedSouls

=Snapefan83:iconSnapefan83: reports, May 11
CharmedSouls, a Charmed fan club and chatroom, is having a contest from April 18, 2008 5am Eastern time through June 18, 2008 5 am Eastern time.

The theme is "Spring". So you can draw your favorite character or characters in Springtime situations. Make it about love in Spring time and draw your favorite character or characters and show how much you love them. Draw the love from the show such as your favorite couples on the show. Traditional art, digital art, any media is allowed; also if you want to draw them in any style is allowed, anime/manga or whatever you like best.

There must be at least 10 submissions by the deadline for the contest to continue. If we do not have 10 it will be canceled or extended if enough people want to join. The winners will be chosen by votes. You will have one week to vote after the deadline for submissions.

Contest Prizes:

:bulletpurple: 1st prize: a one month subscription or if =Snapefan83 is able to it could be a 3 month subscription. Also the winner will be showcased as our Featured Deviation.

:bulletpurple: 2nd prize: Commission work(a drawing of your choice) by =Cocokun

:bulletpurple: 3rd prize: You will be in a chapter or two of =Snapefan83's 5 chapter Charmed fanfic. Your character will be named by you and you will get to chose if the character is good or bad. ^__^

For more information on the contest, how to enter, rules, etc please visit the club's contest page found | here |

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Puzzle Project Bucharest 15-22 june 2008

~bantumista:iconbantumista: reports, 2d 2h ago
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Following the works done last years by artists from Romania, Moldova, USA, the Netherlands, UK, Spain, Germany, Palestine, Israel, Croatia and Turkey, in 2008 we expect the unconventional gallery on the walls of the Motoare Terrace to be completed – as in a cultural puzzle – with 20 more projects to be done by our Romanian and foreign guests.

OBJECTIVES :

The project is a statement of experiments and artistic expression from different parts of the world. Each year’s theme determines the artists to create links between the imaginary and the real world while under a common source of inspiration.
Being a succesion of editions, the event provides for an annual happening where artists from different cultures meet and build together a puzzle whose mirror-image is given by the diversity of the visitors on the terrace. Artists’ presence add up to the already cosmopolitan atmosphere of the place.
Another aims are to bring together creativity from different areas, to prove during a week art’s power of making people cross boundaries and to show the world what globalization should be about.

Each of the people involved in the project will dedicate their work, their time during this special week, their exeperince to the visitors on the terrace “... with love”.

Romanian and foreign artists may apply for this year edition by accessing the above mentioned web page.
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Axel ART

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Welcome To The Haunted Mansion

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A celebration of artworks featuring the classic dark ride attraction, Disney's Haunted Mansion. WELCOME, foolish mortals....there's no turning back now....

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FrankenMechs: The Travesty of Original Mecha Arts

~vforvengeance:iconvforvengeance: reports, Dec 12, 2007
These days, you heard about all kinds of community ads telling you not to support piracy and buy original, from original released animes to genuine car parts, which always claimed to have better qualities than pirated versions. Then again, there are also hypocrites among those who call on for supporting originals when they also promote piracy at the same time. Especially when it comes to online art thefts where people make FRANKENMECHS out of original mecha linearts by pros for their own selfish indulgence.

What is a FRANKENMECH? A FRANKENMECH is a juxtapose or collage of existing mech linearts (mostly Gundam MSs) which requires photo editing softwares and existing linearts. Here's how you do it:
1. Gather all kinds of mecha linearts you can find, whether scanned from gunpla manuals or just ripped it off from online official sites.
2. Cut out the MS with Photoshop and separate 'em into body parts, weapons etc.
3. Just swap and cut-and-paste the parts as you see fit, recolor the whole thing if you want and voila! Your very own FRANKENMECH.
4. See? You don't have to be as great like those mecha artists (Katoki, Okawara, Fujioka) to make great looking mechs. FRANKENMECHING makes it so easy and fun. Yeah, now you can tell Bandai to go to hell...

Who does it? Why, the FRANKENERS of course. FRANKENERS are liars who clearly had no knowledge at drawing mechs by hand and no desire to pick up the trade. A FRANKENER does not need to practice and sharpen their skills because he/she can just picks any mecha linearts from the linearts library, juxtapose it into their own mechs and show it around in any forums, while those who spent years of hard works and practices sharpening their skills are not appreciate in that particular site because their works eventhough are originally hand drawn, are not as good as those FRANKENMECHS. Why of course, FRANKENMECHS are made from existing finished linearts by PROS, they(FRANKENs) are just picking up the bits and turned it into something they claimed as their own.

The TRUTH about FRANKENMECHS is that FRANKENERS are MOCKING mecha art and the professionals from the industry. They can talk passionately about animes and adores characters and mechs like crazy fangirls squealing at concerts, yet they can also ripped people off by cheating their way to make themselves on par with the pros by making FRANKENMECHS without enduring hardships which the pros has gone thru. When people criticize their FRANKENMECHS as "CHEATING", they went all fire up and whack the critics back like Al-Qaeda extremists.
Here's how they react:

-When I said this mech was built with existing linearts, they said what gives me the right to trash their work.

-When I point out that FRANKENING is cheating, they called me arrogant and just because I'm skilled, I can look down on others.

-When someone posted their hand drawn mechs on there, regardless of levels, they didn't even bother to look at it and gave these amateurs the snubs because it's either really not good or they are just too ashamed to give their comments.

-When I told them to learn to hand draw the mechs, they said that frankening is as difficult as hand drawing and who has the time to learn traditional arts? Bullocks.

-When I resorted to aggression by calling them half-past 6, they are even more pissed and sent me a warning letter. Which means they just can't take criticisms openly, easily offended and never learn to put themselves in the anime production people shoes.

Initially, they sounded nice but as you keep stressing on the subject FRANKENING=CHEATING repeatedly, they would hurl you back with all sorts of lame excuses and flamming remarks. They even called me a 'NAZI' for that. So this is how anime fandom has become nowadays-DENS OF THIEVES AND HOOLIGANS.

As the saying goes "TO LOVE CLEVERNESS WITHOUT TO LOVE LEARNING MAY LEAD TO MISCONDUCT", what FRANKENERS did was purely ABUSIVE and DISRESPECTFUL to their nippon mecha idols. Eventhough they said they did it for FUN and they had the artist's permission to use the linearts, those are all unacceptable excuses because they are commiting a BARE-FACE ROBBERY and this is downright ART THEFT.

Here are some examples of FRANKENMECHS:
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Now, these looked pretty nice, aren't they? For those who had no knowledge and aren't familiarize with existing mecha arts, don't be fooled. How to tell a genuine mecha artpiece from a FRANKEN?
1. Take a closer look at the resolutions of each parts, which can be significant as one part is sharper and the others blurred or pixelated.
A genuine artpiece is perfectly clear in resolution from head to toe.

2. Compared the parts with any existing linearts and soon you would see the similarities. It's pretty obvious to tell where that part came from.
A genuine artpiece does not show significant similiarties with other existing linearts.

3. Rough edges on the FRANKEN lines due to cuttings via Photoshop software.
A genuine artpiece has clean, fine outlines which are not jagged.

4. Differences in art styles, where each pros has got their own style at mecha drawings like Okawara's traditional 2D style and Katoki's detailness. FRANKENS often looked ODD due to mixture of different art styles.
A genuine artpiece is tidy and clearly of one particular style.

5. Poor anatomical proportions and distorted perspectives are also the results of linearts mixture.
A genuine artpiece is proportionately accurate and not distorted.

The bottomline is, we always took things for granted. Be it natural resources, relationships and the peacetimes, we just took it and never give something back in return. FRANKENERS are like that, they took existing linearts, mix it into FRANKENMECHS for their own pleasures and that's it. They are not helping the industry to grow, they are only MOCKING it with all these FRANKEN TRAVESTRIES. Being a fan, it is your duty to give something back to the industry who offer you the things which you enjoy everyday. How do you give something back to your favourite mecha artists? By drawing out a mech by hand of course, regardless of skills levels. To gain respect, one must earn it. If your conducts are right, then the whole world will look up to you:rose:

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~La-belle-machine:iconLa-belle-machine: Dec 12, 2007, 7:54:01 AM
I was just thinking about it, and I must say. While makeing frankenmechs might be fun, posting them on an art forum would be like someone playing guitar hero and posting their high score on a real guitar forum.

That said, I like [link] 's art board ... mostly because I mod it and I will perma'ban any bitches that try to post their frankencrap on the art board.
~Dunne:iconDunne: Dec 12, 2007, 8:14:49 AM
It depends on which but I have seen it happen before. Its nice to say inspired, but actually slapping Mecha together in to a apt labeled frakenmech is something that needs to be thought of better than simply pasting over what part of mecha you like best and calling it something new.

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MECHAS RULE ALL
GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN
ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD
F40PH FOR ALL
~RedWingnut:iconRedWingnut: Dec 12, 2007, 11:03:48 AM
You can't win with this, v. It's a matter of personal taste, but you act like your word is law. That's just not right, and you have no right to force your ideas on people as such.

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The 3 most hated words in all of television: To be continued...
~vforvengeance:iconvforvengeance: Dec 12, 2007, 12:07:16 PM
Seriously, do all guitar hero players play the guitar in real life?

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Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should Ever be Forgot
~Dunne:iconDunne: Dec 12, 2007, 4:29:39 PM
He is asking for creativity not slap together works from pre-made pieces.

You can't just color something different or add an extra part here and there and call it an original, maybe a Variation, but not original.

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MECHAS RULE ALL
GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN
ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD
F40PH FOR ALL
~vforvengeance:iconvforvengeance: Dec 12, 2007, 9:54:23 PM
I'm not planning to win on this, I'm speaking the TRUTH.

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Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should Ever be Forgot
~La-belle-machine:iconLa-belle-machine: Dec 12, 2007, 9:57:53 PM
Considering I can't play the guitar, no lol
~RedWingnut:iconRedWingnut: Dec 12, 2007, 11:18:21 PM
Take a look at [link] and say that again.

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The 3 most hated words in all of television: To be continued...
~RedWingnut:iconRedWingnut: Dec 12, 2007, 11:20:53 PM
Your truth. Which is no different than your opinion.
Your conjecture is not universal in this matter.

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The 3 most hated words in all of television: To be continued...
~Dunne:iconDunne: Dec 12, 2007, 11:27:32 PM
I am not to insult you but those are templates.

I've seen the website, sure he might change the head gear here and there, but you really need to lurk more.

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MECHAS RULE ALL
GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN
ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD
F40PH FOR ALL