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Dianne Smith
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Name: | Dianne Smith |
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Type: | Fan Artist |
Fandoms: | Star Wars, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings |
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Dianne Smith is a fan artist, best known for color, and black and white, portraits of mainly Harrison Ford as characters in Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and many other roles in other films such as Hanover Street, The Conversation, The Mosquito Coast, and Witness.
Smith also created some illos for other characters in Lord of the Rings and The Phantom Menace.
Her work appeared in many zines, including Flip of a Coin, Rogue's Gallery, Better Idea Zine, Facets, A Tremor in the Force, Never Say Die, and Guardian. Smith also published her own art zine called Chameleon.
In 1990, her front cover of A Tremor in the Force #5 won her a Star aWard.
Smith was from West Yorkshire, England. She is not the same fan as Dianne M. Smith from Canada nor Diana Smith.
Art at Official Film Premieres
In October 1982, her art was displayed at the London premiere at an exhibition at the ABC Film Centre in Leeds to help publicize "Blade Runner" called: The Many Faces of Harrison Ford.
In 1982, EMI Cinemas bought some of her portraits; "they also commissioned work on a regular basis until they had most of the people they wanted up on the walls, including E.T." [1]
In August 1983, Smith also met Harrison Ford and gave him one of her portraits of him, something that is described in great detail in Close Encounters of the Ford Kind.
in 1986, Smith's art was displayed at the premiere of Mosquito Coast in London. [2]
Meta
- Close Encounters of the Ford Kind by Smith (1983)
Zines
BetterIdeaZine #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #10, #11, #12, #20, #22 | Bloodstripe #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8 | Bright Center of the Universe #2, #5 | Chameleon | Choice Parts #1, #2| Cloud City: Freezing Chamber | Facets #2 |Field Studies #3 | Flip of a Coin #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14 | Guardian #8 | Han Solo Art Calendar | Illumination | Millennium #1 | Never Say Die #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9 | Not Exactly a Knight | Once Upon a Galaxy | Rogue's Gallery #17, #21 | StarQuest | A Tremor in the Force #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 | Warriors of Gondor #1, #2, #3 | The Wookiee Commode #4, #5, #6, #7 | Wookiee Rendezvous
Fan Comments
Sample Gallery
Hanover Street
Ford portrayed the character "David Halloran" in Hanover Street.
from Facets #2
from Better Idea Zine #7
from Flip of a Coin #12
cover of Better Idea Zine #2
The Conversation
Ford portrayed the character "Martin Stett" in The Conversation.
from Rogue's Gallery #17
Mosquito Coast
Ford portrayed the character "Allie Fox" in The Mosquito Coast.
from Better Idea Zine #3: "Here's a look at Dianne and some of her paintings exhibited at the Royal Premiere of "Mosquito Coast" in London..."
from Better Idea Zine #3: "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales at the Premiere (photo by Anne-Marie Flack)."
Witness
Ford portrayed the character "John Book" in Witness.
from Flip of a Coin #9, John Book from Witness
from BetterIdeaZine #7 (1988)
Star Wars
Ford portrayed the character "Han Solo" in the Star Wars franchise.
included, and may be the art mentioned, in Close Encounters of the Ford Kind (1983)
from Better Idea Zine #3 (1987)
cover of Once Upon a Galaxy #2
"Nice Men," front cover of Bloodstripe #1, also the cover of of Never Say Die (Star Wars zine) #6
"Just What I Always Wanted," front cover of Chameleon, also cover of Bloodstripe #2
from Bloodstripe #1 (The same photo reference was used by Cherie Fontyn in Flip of a Coin #13)
from Choice Parts #2, also the back cover of "Bloodstripe" #2
from Bright Center of the Universe #2
cover of Never Say Die #1: titled "Fire and Ice"
cover of Never Say Die #2
from A Tremor in the Force #3, reprinted in "Never Say Die" #2
from A Tremor in the Force #3
from A Tremor in the Force #3
from A Tremor in the Force #3
from A Tremor in the Force #3, fusion with Gremlins
from Tremor in the Force #4 (1988)
from Tremor in the Force #4 (1988)
cover of Never Say Die #3
from A Tremor in the Force #7 and Never Say Die #4
from Never Say Die #4
from Tremor in the Force #4, reprinted in Never Say Die #4
from A Tremor in the Force #7 for the story "High Seas" by Carolyn Golledge — "Dianne Smith's accompanying artwork was also very nice. I've always suspected Val Kilmer would make a good Corellian." [3]and Never Say Die #4
from A Tremor in the Force #6]] where it portrays a fan casted Val Kilmer, and Never Say Die #4
from A Tremor in the Force #6
cover of Never Say Die #7, a poor photocopy was included, and may be the art mentioned, in Close Encounters of the Ford Kind (1983)
front cover of Chameleon, also used as the cover of Never Say Die #7, a poor photocopy was included, and may be the art mentioned, in Close Encounters of the Ford Kind (1983)
front cover of Choice Parts #1
from BetterIdeaZine #20 (1992)
cover of Choice Parts #2
cover of Cloud City #1
"Local Hero," front cover of Wookiee Rendezvous
from The Wookiee Commode #7, reprinted in Never Say Die #1
from The Wookiee Commode #7, reprinted in Never Say Die #1
from The Wookiee Commode #7, reprinted in Never Say Die #1
from Guardian #8
from Guardian #8
from Guardian #8
from Guardian #8
from Guardian #8
from StarQuest, reprinted as the back cover of Wookiee Rendezvous
from A Tremor in the Force #7 (1993)
Indiana Jones
Ford portrayed the character "Indiana Jones" in the Indiana Jones franchise.
from BetterIdeaZine #5 (1988)
from BetterIdeaZine #10 (1989)
from BetterIdeaZine #11 (1989)
from Choice Parts #2
from Flip of a Coin #9
from Chameleon
from Chameleon
from Flip of a Coin #12
The Phantom Menace
from Millennium #1
from Millennium #3
from Millennium #3
Lord of the Rings
cover of Warriors of Gondor #1
cover of Warriors of Gondor #2
cover of Warriors of Gondor #3
Harrison Ford
cover of Better Idea Zine #1
Blade Runner
Unknown
References
- ^ from Close Encounters of the Ford Kind (late 1983)
- ^ as reported in Better Idea Zine #1, photos of the event were published in "Better Idea Zine" #3
- ^ from a letter of comment in "Tremor in the Force" #8