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I think so much of fanart focuses a lot on getting the character forms right and what story-telling *does* happen happens in panel form. Of course, coming form a comics/animation medium definitely skews fangirls' (and boys') perception of what a finished product is-- and there's nothing wrong with wanting to get the character forms right, or tell a story in a traditional graphic-novel framework (those are the foundation blocks, after all). But we don't want to forget that we're artists, too, (even if that label is a stretch, I think that everybody can produce art in some capacity, and therefore can be an artist, is an artist) and that sometim

Yay! Got the Watchmen OST today-- the Tyler Bates one. I don't care what anybody else says-- I think it's appropriately urban/scifi/angsty enough without going over the top. This, plus the Explosions in the Sky album, will be enough to keep me ficcing for the next few days, until I run out of steam again or turn to drawing again. Any ideas on how to Get Inspired? Weather's been nice so I've been sitting outside, but East Coast autumn descends quicker than you expect, so I don't know if depending on the climate will help.

First I out myself on the Watchmen LJ kinkmeme and these days I STILL can't figure out how to post a DA icon-thingy. For some reason all the icons I make end up being like 50kb large even AFTER I save as a jpeg, merge all my freakin' layers, and compress it as much as possible. Could this be the fault of having an ancient version of Photoshop? D: Forty deviations later I'm still a n00b...