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secret welfare poet ([personal profile] secondsilk) wrote in [community profile] white_lotus 2010-11-24 07:26 am (UTC)

On measuring fanart

Please specify figurative art (containing recognisable depictions of characters/places). [This is just that I get distracted by the idea of submitting abstract art to fulfil request.]

Art can be measured by size, by the level of detail, by the number of elements (number of characters or large objects or specific distinguishable settings), and by the media (although this 'scale' is also partly completely made up and based on assumptions that don't necessarily hold up).

Does art have to be in colour? If it's not, does a black and white picture have to be more detailed or have more figures in it than one that is colour? [I still hold the stupid, but strong, sense that a black and white pencil drawing is not good enough. So specify that art can be produced in any medium or combination of media.]

You don't actually have to specify size in that much detail, but some arbitrary guidelines could help as a starting point, or let an artist think, "well, I've got one fewer things so I'll be more detailed".

Or examples of art that the mods things is commensurate to 1,000 words of fic would be very helpful. [Actually, I should look at the McShep_Match art for equivalent art.]

I was fearing that the art I drew for Kink Bingo would be rejected for being less than "medium". Especially as it's hand drawn and therefore doesn't look as smooth or finished as computer aided or computer produced works. I would have liked to draw something smaller but more detailed (and in fact probably will).


Are the originals of a physical piece of 2D art expected to be sent to the recipient? (That would be really cool.)

(I've not seen AtLA, and won't before it'll be too late to sign up for this year, but I have a great interest in how to measure art.)

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