Talk:Merlin Art

Yue_ix's notes

Yue_ix asked us to discuss the following. These are her words. the old briar pipe 17:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Drawings influences? "Hm, well, Draykonis did influence some people into putting Merlin/Colin into dresses. It also seemed to me that AUs were/are very popular in fanarts, which might be Trolley's influence? (and steammmpunk's) In comparison, I think non-drawn graphics put a lot more emphasis on Arthurian style and canon settings, perhaps spawn off by Newkidfan. But here I think I'm falling into a trap of popularity and how my beginnings being almost exclusively A/M twist my perception. So those are just thrown out there, and I'd like to know if anyone's list coincides. Especially from people in those fields."

Rant to transform into any kind of useful info-

while 127 writers signed-up, 23 stories were finished (18%); yet, 68 artists signed-up and 72 fanarts were finished (105%).

(insert talk about fandom medium diversity, maybe link to this fanlore discussion)

ratcreature says: "Merlin is not actually my main fandom, so I don't really keep up that much. I mostly followed here because I edit fanlore quite a bit, and am happy to see more people coming in. But I looked around at dA and there are a couple of groups for Merlin like #HeartMerlinArt and #Merlin-Fan-Club.

On fanlore there are articles for cosplay and for crafts like fannish knitting (the latter actually with a Merlin example), though I don't think an article on fancrafts in general, only a brief mention on the fanart, so you can either add Merlin stuff on those genre pages if it seems a good way to expand those articles, or add a new subsection on the Merlin page, or on the pairing pages. Really there are no universal rules were to put things, and each fandom (what little there is for most for now) ends up structured slightly differently to suit it, and the preferences of the editors."

Technical Issue

Does anyone know why this page is not showing up on the list of subpages on the main merlin page?--facetofcathy 17:40, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

You have to edit the main page before it shows up there. You don't have to change anything. Just clicking edit and then save page will do the trick. --Doro 17:52, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Big Bang

totally pawned the Big Bang (include stats**while 127 writers signed-up, 23 stories were finished (18%); yet, 68 artists signed-up and 72 fanarts were finished (105%).

This information is misleading in that it wants the reader to draw the conclusion that the artists were somehow more dedicated than the writers and totally ignores that it takes a lot more time to write a story of Big Bang length than it takes on average to create a piece of Big Bang art (In fact, several artists created more than one piece of art). That is why in Big Bangs the art is assigned to the story and not the other way around. Writing something that is several thousand words long is a commitment that for many different reasons not every writer can finish. It would be a better comparison if each artist had to complete a 30 page comic but the way it is, the numbers don't really tell you anything. --Doro 17:52, 27 March 2010 (UTC)