These Curious Times Interview with Pangaea Starseed
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | These Curious Times Interview with Pangaea Starseed |
| Interviewer: | curious |
| Interviewee: | Pangaea Starseed |
| Date(s): | September 1, 2015 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Hannibal, fanart |
| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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These Curious Times Interview with Pangaea Starseed ("My Design, My Heart") is a 2015 interview with Pangaea Starseed.
The interview includes many artworks by Pangaea Starseed and discussion of them.
Part of a Series
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Interviewer's Introduction: Excerpt
Pangaea was kind enough to be the first artist to allow me to interview them, and I am forever grateful for their time and patience with the process. I took the slow boat and we conducted this interview via email, sending rounds of questions and answers back and forth, slowly digging into the hows, whys, and whens of their fandom history. We dove deep into the details and stories behind their art and took a close look at eight of their Hannibal works to find out more about their process, inspiration and the thousand words behind each one.
Excerpts
It sounds like you’ve been a fannish person for quite some time. How did you get into fandom? What was the first fandom you created works for?Honestly, the first bits of fanart that I did, and didn’t really realize was fan art, were from Poppy Z Brite novels . . . in particular, Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood. From there I eventually moved on to, of all things, Dragon Ball Z (because I am a nerd for Vegeta and Bulma). I would continue to peck out drawings from both of these sources through high school and college, but never really creating a large volume of work . . . mostly because in those years I focused on original characters and stories.
The first proper, solid fandom I participated in was more than ten years later, with Star Trek TOS. Combine childhood influence with catching the energy wave of the reboot movie and you’ve got the path I tumbled down into the fandom. I was (and still am) an enthusiastic Kirk/Spock shipper, and while I made my own art and fic, I devoured all of the fan history of the fandom and show that I could. To this day I still have piles of classic zines and framed old art from my time in the fandom. I would highly recommend the art of Gayle F, and the meta of Brittany Diamond.
This might be more of a “fandom and art” question, but how do you think people view fanart? There is sometimes a mixed reception to fanworks, and fan writing. What are your thoughts on the status of fanworks? I think . . . that that is actually a very complex question, that is much larger than my own experiences and that I’m barely qualified to answer! I will say that over the past ten years I’ve absolutely observed a rise in the enthusiasm of creation and reception of fanworks, both in fan communities and the paying-attention public . . . and that makes me happy.
Two (of the many) things that I love about your Hannibal work are your bold color choices and that you seem to play with a limited palette. The combination of the two makes your art pop. How did you develop that style?I’ve always loved working with color, but I realize now how undisciplined my choices used to be. Honestly, the palette memes on tumblr helped me in my early pop-color pieces, and then I began to make my own palettes as I gained confidence in values and temperatures of color.
I also made a rule for myself to eliminate black and white from my palettes completely.
It was fortuitous that around the time my color sophistication evolved, I fell head first into the Hannibal fandom.