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Ask the Artist: slinkymilinky
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Artist: slinkymilinky |
| Interviewer: | |
| Interviewee: | slinkymilinky |
| Date(s): | November 25, 2011 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Fan Art, Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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slinkymilinky was interviewed in 2011 for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
What’s your opinion on manips and paintovers? I have no problem with either. Good maniping takes a ridiculous amount of skill – I personally really struggle with it - You’re starting off with several complete images that are sometimes low quality or the light sources/colours vary from image to image, or the sharpness, or a hundred other factors. I find breaking those complete images down into the elements I need and then stitching them back together again really difficult.I think the effect of a good paintover/manip mix can have a really nice nostalgic quality to it. A lot of the fanart for older fandoms like the X-Files was done in that way. Maybe because graphics tablets were harder to come by and that 'smudge and smooth' technique can be done with a mouse.
So yeah, generally I don’t mind how an image has been made (tracing, manip, paintovers, griding, pixel by pixel…); I’m more interested in the end result.
Do you feel doing fanart or fanfic detracts from your 'dignity' as a creative? Not at all. At the moment fandom is the only thing stopping my skills going totally stagnant. And plus it’s a great sandbox to explore new things. I’d never made a vid before, or even looked at editing software before I joined fandom. I’d never made a movie poster, or a book cover, or tried to say something about myself in a 100 x 100px jpeg, or written something for fun. I’d never collaborated with someone. Fandom's awesome; everybody is creating things that they want to create, so overall I find it a great learning environment. I’m not shy about my involvement in fandom either – most of my RL friends have some knowledge of my fandom activities.