[Art] - Home (FINISHED!)

[kasche]

Believe it or not, but while it was undergoing the scanner-treatment I felt like I'd been running a marathon.

...which, considering how long ago it should have been ready, is not completely out of order.

(Ni? THANK YOU. Grateful beyond words.)

Anyway!

(Yes - this, not the other, is the piece I stopped working on to take a pause with the Harry/Cedric pic. Speaking of, read Something Else. Something Better yet?)



Title: Home
Character(s): The Marauders! Left to right, Peter, Remus, Sirius and James. :D
Rating: G
Notes: I did this a while ago as Cate's new banner. :D (if you're thinking of using it for, like, icons or stuff - I'm very flattered, but I'm afraid it's a no-no. :) )

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Fanart 100 Prompt n°090: Home back to table of prompts

Fanart 50 Prompt n°30: It Was Great back to table of prompts

James turned out so camp. o_O Swear that wasn't intentional.


The best part is that I couldn't help imagining the animals talking, in the tapestry. Snakey has the face of someone who's telling a lewd/stupid story, the kind you hear in bar, and which is usually false, but still plausible enough; Gryff's raised leg might mean he's telling Snakey "come on now!", but the bland expression suggests he's probably wondering whether what he's raising is true or not; the badger has this sufferent/resigned position, like he's sighing to Raven "what are they talking about again...?", but Raven snaps back "don't bother me! can't you see I'm doing yoga?"

I swear I hadn't smoked anything at the time.

Also - midnitemaraud_r? *wiggles eyebrows*

Comments

Re: Awesome!

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Oh, nonono! I never thought you were trying to copy anything - after all, you wouldn't have shown it to me in that case, don't you think? ;D - I meant it when I said I was flattered. :) Just... well, what I said. ;) And really, it's not unusual for artists coloring other artists' outlines - there's even a community for that! :D As for me, I'm afraid I can't offer pointers or anything - I'm crap at coloring myself. (As the fact that the gallery contains only b&w pieces demonstrates. ;P)

Oh! Now that I think about it, there's a wonderful community for betaing art - which is, surprise surprise, artbeta. People there always give wonderful advice. :D

Re: Awesome!

[lamenting-quill.livejournal.com]

:)Thanks for the communtity link, I'll try it out!

Re: Awesome!

[kasche.livejournal.com]

You're welcome ;)

On the subject of copyright, since I was curious, I asked some fellow artists (http://community.livejournal.com/hp_fanartists/76006.html) (you need to be a member of hp_fanartists to see the post, though) and this is part of the answer I got:

I guess it might differ slightly depending on your national laws on intellectual property (or copyright in the US). What I know is that the French law, which respects the international intellectual property convention, acknowledges illustration of a previous (copyrighted) written source as something which grants its own intellectual property. It means that an illustrator retains every rights for an illustration (s)he made from another author's story. The idea behind is that there's still an act of creation in illustrating, residing in the construction of the pic (and globally in the visual art).

So if you're illustrating a novel/short story, there's no problem. Now, if your source is already a visual material (HP films, a TV show, anime, an ad...), you're copying from visual references, which would be creating a derivative product and could be understood as a copyright infringement, depending on how much of the original visuals remains in your art - actor's faces, elements of clothing, buildings... not to mention direct copying of screencaps, of course.

Things differ in the case you mass produce something (like calendars, or postcards, this kind of thing), since the excuse of the uniqueness of art creation wouldn't work anymore.

In case you were still curious. ;)

Re: Awesome!

[lamenting-quill.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! That's very interesting, and good to know ;)

Cheers,

~Lamenting Quill~