dA Bestiary No 76

I'm a fan artist myself, but I'm not one of these. I deal with them all the time and they are indeed irritating. My fan art intentionally has my own version of the official character style and I always redesign a character in my own way (it is "deviant", after all). But there is always one of more fan piranhas who will then come and tell me something about the physical appearance of my fan art is "wrong" or "inaccurate", even though it was my intention to do it differently. 

It might be for this reason that most fan artists (unfortunately) try to replicate the exact style and portrayal of the characters they are fans of. Unless the character(s) are doing something interesting in the art, I find this incredibly boring and repetitive.

They don't realize that "fan art" means a fan's own representation of something they like, not a replication of it. 


I appreciate this! You are a very good observer of the community here!