T'Guess
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| Fan | |
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| Name: | T'Guess |
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| Type: | fanartist, fanwriter |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS |
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| Other: | Den of Iniquity [1] |
| URL: | tguess at AO3 TGuess at Kirk/Spock Archive |
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T'Guess is a multi-award winning fanartist and fanwriter with many well-received Kirk/Spock stories and artworks in zines such as T'hy'la, Out of the Big Black, KiScon and Side by Side.
Interview
Her Start in Art
T’Guess, who is most well-known for her CGAs, tells an interesting story. She says, “My initial desire to create K/S CGAs was inspired by seeing some very poorly executed ones on the net. I thought I could do better!” So if you have ever winced at a less than perfect picture in a zine or online, those less than great works have an important purpose: they inspire people to do better! I can remember when I first drew K/S, I had never seen any other K/S art and I was quite pleased with my stuff. Later, when I got my first zines and saw helley’s work, I nearly gave up! But actually, it gave me something to aspire to, and I drew better as a result." [1]
What Do You Want to Express?
When asked "What kind of things do you try to express in your art? Beauty? Sexiness? A good likeness?", T'Guess answered:
“...my aims depend on the piece I’m creating. An accurate likeness is always key; if it doesn’t look like them (especially their bodies) then what’s the point? Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder, although it’s lovely to hear when someone thinks my CGAs are beautiful. To me variety is everything; I try to create varying moods and themes: sexy, romantic, dramatic, pensive and sad, etc. I love to challenge myself and this applies to my art as well as my writing. ‘To boldly go...’ is a great motto, don’t you think?”[1]
About CGA Art
Liz, the fan who wrote Dribbling Scribbling Women: The History of Our Art ruminated on her own art and asked T'Guess about hers:
I was particularly interested in T’Guess’s CGA work, because in some way it’s the ultimate in realist art—the implicit aim of ninety percent of K/S artists producing hand drawn art today. I have done both CGA and traditional art and in both cases I spend a long time trying to make it look as real as possible. I try to make drawings look as close to photos as I can. Some artists use filters to make CGA look like drawings, but personally I like the hyper-real quality of computer- aided art. So I asked T’Guess, “Do you want your CGA work to look as if it was hand drawn art? Or do you want it to look like a CGA, to give it that unique stamp?” T’Guess, typically flexible, answers, “I like to experiment; I’ll try different techniques and see which works best for the mood I’m trying to create. There are a number of image tools and filters that will make a piece look like it’s hand-drawn or painted, but I find it more complicated to create something that looks as if it really is a photo—a capture of a single moment through a camera lens. Every element—from the choice of bodies, to their positions, to the expressions on the faces, to the lighting and background—are all equally important and have to be done well if one wants to turn out a quality CGA.” Interesting, I think, so T’Guess is also striving for realism and by the way some of her CGAs are so real they are almost disturbing—in a good way! The divergence between this realist approach and movements in the modern art world brings home to me a point made by several of the artists that I interviewed and that is that we are really “illustrators” as opposed to, or as well as, “artists.” Illustrators and artists may work from their imaginations, their “mind’s eye” or they may use some form of source material, a photo or a model to draw from. I had assumed that most K/S artists didn’t work from life—after all I don’t have any male friends willing to pose like that![1]
Awards
2001
- Best ASCEM New Author: 2nd place
- Best Humor/Parody: 2nd place for Trouble with Quimmies (co-written with Saavant)
2002
- Best TOS Author: 2nd place
- Best TOS Humor/parody: 1st place for Amok Feedback
- Best TOS Slash Multi-part: 1st place tie for Reflections in a Golden Eye
- Best TOS Kirk/Spock Multi-part: 2nd place for Reflections in a Golden Eye
- Best TOS Spock/female:
- 1st place for Prequel: The Mirror has Three Faces
- 3rd place tie for Checkmate
- Best TOS Group (Multiple Partner): 1st place for The Mirror has Three Faces
2003
- Best Overall Poem /Filk: 2nd place tie for Desert of Rain
- Best TOS Poem/Filk: Honorable Mention for Desert of Rain
- Best TOS Challenge: 1st place for The Strangest Thing
- Best Kirk/Spock Novella:
- 2nd place for Spock's Journal
- Honorable Mention for The Strangest Thing
- Best Spock/male: 3rd place for Spock's Journal
- Best Spock/Sarek: Honorable Mention for The Strangest Thing
- Best TOS Het Novella: 3rd place for Spock's Journal
- Best Chapel/male: 3rd place for Quench Thy Thirst
- Cover Art: Bronze for T'hy'la #23
Some Fanfic
- Ghost in the Machine: published in the print zine Dark Fire #2. Kirk and Spock are lovers, in every way but the physical, which is causing Spock to start picking up on Kirkʼs every thought and sensation whenever he has sex with anyone.
- The Gift: published in the print zine T'hy'la #23. A reporter gets a sought-after interview with the legendary Spock.
- Spock's Journal at K/S Archive and Side by Side AO3 Collection: includes artwork. Takes place after "Amok Time" - Spock discovers that the blood fever isn't over, and that he wants Kirk for his mate, but Kirk can't accept this..
- Kaiidth, Part 1: includes artwork. When the Enterprise goes back in time, Kirk finds out what ancient Vulcans were really like, and discovers something about himself and Spock he never suspected.
- Et Tu, Spock?: published in the KiScon Zine of 2004. From the KisCon Short Story Challenge using the words toy, bucolic and cutthroat.
- A Means To An End: published in the e-zine Side by Side. Another ‘first time’ (or one affair leads to another…)
- The Strangest Thing: published in the print zine Dark Fire #1. It takes Spock being brutally tortured and humiliated for Kirk to realize his love for him.
Gallery
All images below are taken from T'Guess' personal site vos Wayback Machine.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Excerpt extracted from Scribbling Women: Artists Talk Back
- ^ Golden O's 2001 (accessed 5 Dec 2020)
- ^ Golden O's 2002 (accessed 5 Dec 2020)
- ^ Golden O's 2003 (accessed 5 Dec 2020)
- ^ Den of Inwui6, the T'Guess's personal site, archive date 2004, accessed in May 2019.