X (fanartist)
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | X |
| Alias(es): | (X prefers NOT to have any other name listed here) |
| Type: | fan artist, fan writer |
| Fandoms: | Star Wars, The Phantom Menace, Highlander, Harry Potter, Band of Brothers, The Mentalist, Prison Break, Jericho, Lawrence: A Dangerous Man |
| Communities: | |
| Other: | |
| URL: | (No link to X's website per her front page) |
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X is an extremely popular gen and slash fan artist who excels at photomanip art and is also a fanfiction writer. As an artist, X has a distinct style that is easily recognizable because of its glossy, airbrushed look. Her technique removes sharp outlines and turns photographic images into something with a more painterly feel, and she creates highly emotional (and often erotic) scenes that appeal greatly to many fans' sensibility.
In addition to illustrating online fan stories, X has also illustrated several fanzines, including the Star Wars fanzines Sanctuary Moon and Living Force, the Hercules: the Legendary Journeys fanzine The Less Than Legendary Journeys, and the Highlander fanzine Futures Without End. She also published a charity fanzine A New POV: Bystander Stories and writes fan fiction.
Reception
Her artwork is popular with many fans. In 2000 she won under a different name a FOX Award in the category Outstanding Mulder Fanfiction Cover Art for one of her X-Files covers and Area 52 describes her J/D manips as "wonderful".[1]
X became popular in classic "old skool" fandoms like XF and HL. Her Harry/Snape art is also extremely popular and much loved by many people in Harry Potter. At Escapade 2006, Snapetoy was particularly fervent in her appeal that X put her Harry/Snape art back on public view. Many fans were grateful when she allowed it all to be put back in public.
Some fans say that X is very talented, even very careful to subtly age underage characters to make them old enough, but they still have problems with not seeing the actor instead of the character.[2] This is a general problem other manip artists face as well because it's part of the issues surrounding the RPF genre.
On the other hand, for a few fans the very thing that makes X's style attractive can fall into the Uncanny Valley between something not photorealistic enough to look real or stylized and art-like enough to be clearly not a photo.
Gallery
cover Sanctuary Moon (Star Wars)
cover War Chronicles (Star Wars: TPM)
fanfic cover for Tarlan's Waiting for the Axe to Fall, winner of the FOX Awards
cover of Letters (Star Wars: TPM)
cover of Still-Heart (Highlander)
cover of Breathless (X-Files)
cover of Solidarity (X-Files)
another cover of Breathless (X-Files)
another cover of Solidarity (X-Files)
TER/MA July 1999 challenge. See The Challenges of Everyday Life, 14. Change of Venue for a response to the challenge.
title graphic for Wolf at the Door (Highlander, 2000).
References
- ^ Area 52: Links. (Accessed 16 February 2010)
- ^ Justine. I Don't Believe In Real people, 04 March 2003. (Accessed 16 February 2010)