Some of you may remember the fanartist self-portrait project I helmed several years ago. It was an awesome success, as you can see above. And since I love self-portraits and fanartists so much, I’ve decided it’s time to do a reboot. While previously I invited only Supernatural artists, this year I’m opening it up to any fanartist in any fandom.
Here’s how it works:
Stop drawing Bucky Barnes and Castiel for five seconds and draw yourself! Send your portrait to me. I’ll turn us into a group portrait. BAM.
The details:
Draw in your own style. No nudity or gore please.
All ages and skill levels welcome.
Make your portrait 300dpi, whether you’re drawing digitally or scanning something traditional. Transparent formats are best, but as long as you keep the background simple so it can be erased, you’ll be fine.
To keep the group portrait looking as uniform as possible, avoid dramatic lighting or poses. Keep things simple. Draw from the waist up. Use the group portrait above as a guide for lighting, pose, colors, etc.
Email me your portrait here: keyblackfox[at]gmail.com
If you aren’t a fanartist, and you still want to draw a self-portrait with us, of course you’re free to! Self-portraits are great practice and good for the soul. Tag your portrait #summerportraitproject so we can see you!
If there’s enough interest, I may make the final group portrait available to buy as a poster—with profits going to charity, of course, but we’ll look into that option once we get that far. (Wouldn’t a poster be rad though? Omg.)
Let’s make the portraits due June 25, 2016. That should give you plenty of time.
Well, since the whole series (even IWTV, really) is based around Lestat and shit that happens bc of him doing the thing, we could make it his birthday which is November 7, 1760. We don’t have the exact date he was turned, but he was between 20-21 yrs old, and it was October, so we could say October 1.
The Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club has a ball for him (and the series) every year in NOLA on Halloween, but Halloween is already Halloween, we shouldn’t be greedy, trying to snatch it away from Halloween-lovers. Well, we could share… but anyway… I like the idea of the VC having it’s OWN day.
Could make it the anniversary of IWTV’s publishing. April 12, 1976.
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No worries, I actually rarely get asked that… every so often a post will come along “REBLOG IF YOU’RE IN THE VC FANDOM” but those aren’t the best resource bc blogs do go inactive.
Partly bc of the unpredictable nature of blog life partly bc I’m lazy, I don’t have a link to blogs that post alot of VC, but the two that immediately come to mind (bc they inspired me to make this blog) are vampchronfic. and vampire-chronicles-appreciation. Also, there’s jardinsalvaje and annericevcmexico, which have alot of VC fanart, etc., and some content in Spanish.
VC RP blogs would be a good place to start bc the RPers often post ooc (out of character) about the VC… so you could check these tags on my blog:
When you’re on desktop tumblr, you can check out the blogs I follow (they’re all in my header, in the “following” box) and those might be of interest to you, too. Fair warning that there are a plenty of non-VC fandom blogs there bc of reasons ;]
“This fandom is so welcoming and kind and supportive. It both surpises me and warms my heart. Especially with how small we are in comparison to other fandoms. Other fandoms could, and should, learn a lot from our community.”
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