Admin Post: Spotlight on Fan-Artists

[goss]

For these next two weeks, we're going to take a break from drawing exercises, and instead focus on recommending our favourite Fan-Artists who create drawn artwork. :D

When reccing Fan-Artists whose work you admire or are inspired by, you can include some of the following info in your posts:

• Artist Name
  
• Artist Website(s) (eg. Personal art gallery, DeviantArt, Tumblr, LJ/DW, etc.)
  
• About the Artist
  
• Why this Artist is awesome
  
• Type of Media used by the Artist (eg. Digital, various traditional materials, etc.)
  
• Fandoms in which the Artist has been active
  
• Links to some of your favourite artworks by this Artist

Spotlight on Fan-Artists starts today and ends on Friday 17th November, 2017.

Feel free to recommend as many Fan-Artists as you wish. :)

Fanartist spotlight

[amberdreams]

Artist Name: thefriendlypigeon

Artist Website(s): Tumblr

About the Artist: I don't know much about her other than she's German, friendly, and like pigeons.

Why this Artist is awesome: Beautiful graphic skills, fab use of colour, great imagination, good sense of humour, and creates awesome animated gifs. Oh and I love her signature too.

Type of Media used by the Artist: I think mostly digital

Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Supernatural

Links to some of your favourite artworks by this Artist:

• Halloween gif of Dean
• One of a series of Castiel true form gifs
• NSFW but non explicit threesome (Sam/Dean/Cas) - I love that her men have hairy legs
• Step by step making a gif of trueform giant Cas.

 

Fanartist Spotlight: Jenny Dolfen

[mekare]

Whee I love the theme. I wanted to talk about her anyway as soon as we do a resource post about watercolour.

Artist Name: Jenny Dolfen

Artist Website(s): Wordpress, Deviantart

About the Artist: I found her art years ago looking for Lord of the Rings fanart. I know she's a fellow German (and a teacher as well) and here's her talking about herself: About.

Why this Artist is awesome: Beautiful watercolour skills, I really love her colour schemes and how she creates atmosphere in her paintings. She does lovely tutorials as well.

Type of Media used by the Artist: watercolour, gouache, ink

Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Tolkien (with strong emphasis on Silmarillion art), Star Wars, Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts, Game of Thrones (a few), Roman history

Links:

The harp no longer sings

The sword and the harp

Gil-Galad was an Elven king gorgeous full body portrait with the softest shades of blue and a melancholy feel appropriate to the poem.

Aragorn

Finn Okay this one is new, I only just discovered it but immediately fell in love with her Finn.

Ben and little Rey an AU where Ben and Rey are at the Jedi academy. Body language and facial expressions in this one are fantastic.