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Ann Humphrey
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| Name: | Ann Humphrey (often misspelled Humphries) |
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| Type: | fan artist |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek: TOS, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea |
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Ann Humphrey was a British fan artist in the Star Trek: TOS and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea fandoms.
Her art appeared in many zines in the 1980s and early 1990s.
A portfolio of her art appeared in Below the Surface #7 in May 1993.
Traditionally, British print zine fandom did not have the emphasis on fanart that American zines did. This means that there is less art, and as a result, less fan commentary as well.
Artist Comments: 1982
From the artist in 1982:
I started [doing Trek art work] about two years ago when I did a couple of drawings for a friend who had lent me some zines. I'd much rather read a good story than draw, but then that's just my naturally idle nature.
Drawing helps fill in, the boring bits between zines arriving.
Most well written stories don't need artwork, but good presentation and a few careful illos do help create an overall effect. Trying to match drawing style to the writer's intention is often the best part of the whole process.
My method of working varies with the editor concerned, I either receive a whole story (which is lovely) or a list of suggested scenes. On reading a story the scenes needing illustration are usually obvious but there are quite a few limitations. High on the list is the method of reproduction. Stencil cut zines mean black ink, or half the fine detail is lost. Photocopying allows slightly more freedom. There are also lots of things I don't do very well (e.g. McCoy, Sigh...) so I must avoid the type of scene where a piece of inadequate artwork could hurt the story. Anything of a highly emotional or imaginative nature is usually best left to the reader's imagination anyway.
When I have decided on the drawing needed, I gather a few [[Photo Reference|useful pictures around me (aren't photonovels wonderful?)]] and make a start in pencil. Then I give up and start again, and again. Likeness is a problem. So is expression. Is it, for example, noble suffering on our hero's face? Or is he about to sneeze? Action scenes are not easy. Are they fighting? Dancing? Or doing what you have to be over eighteen to read about? Once I am vaguely satisfied with the pencil sketch, I either work on it with different grades of pencil or a fine mapping pen. When it is finished, I spend several days dithering and fiddling with it. Then I armour plate an envelope, put all the illos in a plastic bag inside it and challenge the Post Offal to do its worst. [1]
About some tolerance for differing topics and styles:
I do think that the type of story [that a] reviewer complains of in "Out of Bounds, Too" is partly the result of K/S stories being forced into "specialist" zines. As it's the only place the writers can submit erotic K/S perhaps they feel they have to. In effect, zines like "Cheap Thrills" are trapped by their own format. Perhaps the answer is a few more zines like "Nome" or "Matter/Antimatter" which could accept a broader range of stories. A touch more IHIC in fact. [2]
Zine Contributions
- Classified Assignments
- Computer Playback
- Enterprise Log Entries
- In the Wilderness
- K/S Relay
- Kirk
- Klingon!
- The Mark of Cain
- Never and Always with Lighter Shades
- With Hoops of Steel
- Zenith
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Other
Sample Art
1981
from Klingon!
![from Classified Assignments #1, for "Unto The Day" -- "Ann Humphrey's artwork is outstanding." [3]](/w/images/thumb/4/43/Classifiedassart3.jpg/129px-Classifiedassart3.jpg)
from Classified Assignments #1, for "Unto The Day" -- "Ann Humphrey's artwork is outstanding." [3]
![from Classified Assignments #1, for "Unto The Day" -- "Ann Humphrey's pointillistic delicacy is hauntingly expressive..." [4]](/w/images/thumb/4/49/Classifiedassart8.jpg/180px-Classifiedassart8.jpg)
from Classified Assignments #1, for "Unto The Day" -- "Ann Humphrey's pointillistic delicacy is hauntingly expressive..." [4]
from Enterprise Log Entries #45
![from Classified Assignments #1, for "Unto The Day" -- "Ann Humphrey's artwork is outstanding." [3]](/wiki/File:Classifiedassart3.jpg)
![from Classified Assignments #1, for "Unto The Day" -- "Ann Humphrey's pointillistic delicacy is hauntingly expressive..." [4]](/wiki/File:Classifiedassart8.jpg)
1982
from Zenith #4
from Zenith #4
![from Classified Assignments #2, for "Love's War" -- "The illos by Ann Humphrey mate well with the story whether presenting a scene or framing the text with decoration evoking an alien culture." [5]](/w/images/thumb/2/29/Classass2-1.jpg/129px-Classass2-1.jpg)
from Classified Assignments #2, for "Love's War" -- "The illos by Ann Humphrey mate well with the story whether presenting a scene or framing the text with decoration evoking an alien culture." [5]
from Classified Assignments #2, for "Love's War"
from Classified Assignments #2, for "Love's War"
from Classified Assignments #2, for "Love's War"
from Enterprise Log Entries #47
from Enterprise Log Entries #47
from Computer Playback #6
from K/S Relay #4, portrait of Janice Lester for "Lester's Complaint"
from K/S Relay #4, portrait of James T. Kirk for "Kirk's Defense"
from Enterprise Log Entries #50
from Enterprise Log Entries #51
![from Classified Assignments #2, for "Love's War" -- "The illos by Ann Humphrey mate well with the story whether presenting a scene or framing the text with decoration evoking an alien culture." [5]](/wiki/File:Classass2-1.jpg)
1983
from Enterprise Log Entries #54
1984
from Enterprise Log Entries #60, portrait of T'Pring
from Enterprise Log Entries #62
from The Mark of Cain
1985
from Enterprise Log Entries #66
from Enterprise Log Entries #68
1989
from In the Wilderness #2
1993
from Anchors Away #1
from Below the Surface #6, for "The Second Chance Cruise"
from Below the Surface #6, for "C.P.U."
from Below the Surface #7
from Below the Surface #7
1994
from Sonar Readings #1
from Sonar Readings #1
References
- ^ from Communicator #6
- ^ comments in Communicator #6 (1982)
- ^ Communicator #1
- ^ Communicator #1
- ^ Communicator #7 (Oct 1982)