Hi! I’m still cooking but I have a few questions before I start getting to my other ideas:
Is fan art allowed? I’m specifically thinking of a flower celebration festival that happens in a video game I played before.
For the optional challenge, do the Memileo brushes count (or other kinds of brushes to help emulate some texture, with the alpha or something being from a scan)? Seems like a no for the Memileo one but it never hurts to double-check
The second part is more about making your own brushes rather than using someone else’s provided brushes.
While posting Fan-art the onus for acquiring the permission for using the character from the franchise holder lies with the poster/user. If franchise holder demands removal of the image from the forum, then the post will be removed. The image poster will be held responsible for any legal and financial liabilities arising from the infringement.
For #2 - that part is optional so you can use any brushes you like.
Great, thanks Sooz!
The video game I’m thinking of is quite old so I don’t think I’ll be able to obtain permission from the company so I’ll stick with my safer ideas for now, especially considering the possibility of the artwork(s) being featured.
Just to make it clear - in case anyone is struggling to understand the theme:
So - flora can be any plant life; it doesn’t have to include flowers.
Flowers are usually the most vibrant part of a plant - since they have evolved to attract insects. But leaves, stems and other structures can also be interesting. Trees are also a valid subject!
Of course, most trees are flowering plants, even if many of their flowers aren’t notable. But some of them have cones or the like instead. And then there’s ferns, and mosses and other non-vascular plants, which have neither.
Anyway, tempting as it is to think of some non-flowering, not-in-bloom, or subtle-flowered plant to represent, I’m also looking forward to Spring and all the wildflowers it brings. I started doodling some of those, hopefully I’ll keep working on it.
I saw a fun B&W photo from the San Francisco Flower market (over 120 years ago so no (C) I assume) and took that as inspiration (The California Flower Market History).
Not sure how I’m going to finish it but I’m thinking an impressionist feeling is what I’ll land on. I think I have on the blocking and adjustments all set. …
First thing I thought of when I first saw this month’s topic was hollyhocks. I love hollyhocks and morning glories. So started right out working on some that look like my own out back. I want to add more flowers and some kind of background, but haven’t thought of anything that flips my paint trigger yet Lol
@Cowgirl: You should just start working out the answers yourself. Especially here, where you have already been told that you can find everything about the competition in a certain place. On the one hand it gives you the satisfaction of knowing you can do it on your own, on the other hand it prepares you for situations where you can’t ask anyone because no one is around, and you don’t have internet access.
In view of developments around the world, the ability to develop solutions without outside help could soon be essential for survival.
I finally finished the (clean) sketch! Figuring out which character was going to be which flower was a challenge in itself… I already had an idea for half the characters, but the other half was a bit more complicated. So I used a flower-selling website, which was very helpful!
(Harry: Aster, Hermione: Cactus Dahlia, Ron: Gerbera, Hagrid: Peony, Dumbledor: Echinacea Purpurea “Meringue” (at first, I wanted to make him into an Iris, but it was complicated to give it a face) Griphook(?): no particular plant. I just saw him as a root-type creature because of his hair.)
I hope the characters look alright! I very rarely draw fan art, so drawing fan art while not being a fan can be complicated…
Wait a moment… @sooz, I’m not going against the rules here, right? The “composition should be your own” one…
OMG! You did it! It’s great!
I didn’t expect you to take this particular poster as a basis (when I first had the idea, I had the one with a very blue background in mind, if you see what I mean), but I guess there are so many variants, it’s not surprising we didn’t have the same as prime reference! LOL It’s all the more amazing.
I also thought you’d go more “flowery”, you know, that you’d make them more like flowers and with no clothes, like your sunflower avatar… But it’s up to you.
Come on, don’t worry about the composition, you know I already presented several poster parodies in the past and no one ever said anything against it! I believe that since you change so many details to make it a parody (as opposed to a copy), it changes the composition enough so that it is still your own…
If I don’t forget anything, so far I presented 3 of them as challenge entries: Crash to Desktop (parody of Home Alone with Kiki), Plush Age and Tropical Hips Now. The first one, Komodo, was out of contest because I had the idea too late, and Kiki recruiting was also out of contest (and not a movie poster but still a parody).
so I’ll stick with my safer ideas for now, especially considering the possibility of the artwork(s) being featured.
It’s great!
