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Hi everyone, Jenny Dolfen posted a wonderful tutorial on how to make references work for your composition on her site. She uses her recent Fingon watercolour piece (Silmarillion) as an example (she needed a specific mounted archer reference).

https://goldseven.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/make-reference-work-for-you/

I still aspire to this level of planning, I seldom do art that is that complicated. But maybe some of you find this helpful. Also the art is incredibly beautiful.

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Artist Name: Alexandra Douglas/Lexxie/lexxercise
Artist Website(s): Tumblr, Twitter, DeviantArt(defunct)
About the Artist: When I first encountered Lexxie she was a popular Homestuck fanartist, but then I lost track of her until recently. In the intervening seven years she's become a successful illustrator and video game artist, and her art has only gotten better.
Why this Artist is awesome: Her art is expressive, energetic, elegant, and has a lovely use of colour.
Type of Media used by the Artist: Digital
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Homestuck, Steven Universe, Pokemon, Attack on Titan
Links to some of my favourite artworks by this Artist:
Land of Frost and Frogs from Homestuck

Slain from Homestuck

Junkrat from Overwatch

Rey from Star Wars

Sorry, I know this is a little late, but I had it all written up then forgot to post it!

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Artist Name: min-min-minnie/Jasmine
Artist Website(s): tumblr
About the Artist: As far as I can tell she's the only artist on my list of faves who isn't a professional artist, but since she's only 23 that may just be a matter of time :)
Why this Artist is awesome: Her art is just the cutest, and has a lovely neat, round quality, like the perfect details on a kitten.
Type of Media used by the Artist: Digital
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Yuri on Ice, Fire Emblem, Undertale, Dragon Age, Welcome to Night Vale
Links to some of my favourite artworks by this Artist:
Friskquisition Dragon Age Inquisition/Undertale crossover

Actual prince Phichit from Yuri on Ice

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Artist Name Shoomlah/Claire Hummel
Artist Website(s) (eg. Personal art gallery, DeviantArt, Tumblr, LJ/DW, etc.) DeviantArt Twitter Tumblr Instagram clairehummel.com
About the Artist Works as the art director for the video game studio Campo Santo that made Firewatch and has worked in the game industry for a while on other projects like Bioshock Infinite (more on her site).
Why this Artist is awesome She is excellent in costume design, really intricate/historically accurate detailing, and great compositions.
Type of Media used by the Artist (eg. Digital, various traditional materials, etc.) Mostly digital, but sometimes does traditional.
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active Disney, DC/Marvel comics, various games, Animorphs, probably more I don't know about.

Links to some of your favourite artworks by this Artist

The Disney Historical Princess Outfits she put a lot of research into figuring out exactly what their dresses should have looked like from the time period and place the movies are pseudo-set-in.
Guns and Ships Hamilton piece of Lafayette facing the redcoats.
There You Go, Poetry Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet
Republic City Evening Post Korra as a Norman Rockwell-inspired Saturday Evening Post cover

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Artist Name: Makani/Heather Campbell
Artist Website(s): Tumblr, twitter, DeviantArt (updated infrequently)
About the Artist: Her Team Fortress 2 fanart of the previously unshown Announcer was so good Valve bought the design and hired her to draw their comics. She also works on the official Legend of Korra comics.
Why this Artist is awesome: Her art is incredibly creative and vivid, and she draws women being old and terrifying and grumpy and strange in the most amazing way.
Type of Media used by the Artist: Digital
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Mass Effect, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Team Fortress 2, Portal
Links to some of my favourite artworks by this Artist:
EDI and Joker from Mass Effect Her great pictures of EDI were what got me into her art.

The Gaang's kids as teenagers for Legend of Korra

Flemeth from Dragon Age looking suitably scaryhot

The Announcer The Team Fortress 2 art that became canon

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Artist’s name: Alby_mangroves

Artist websites: Art Blog on Tumblr |

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Why this artist is awesome: She is an extremely talented artist and quite dedicated in terms of the amount of work she produces in whatever fandom takes her fancy. It's been a pleasure to witness her skills grow and expand over the years. I am amazed by her ability to capture likenesses, and love the way she uses colour. She is always so humble about her work too. Definitely one of my favourite fanartists out there, and I'm always delighted when our current fandoms line up. :D

Type of media used by this artist: She uses traditional media, such as pastels and pencils.

Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: We met through Merlin fandom, but lately she's been drawing up a storm in the Marvel/Captain America fandom, much to my delight.

Links to some of my favourite artworks by this Artist: Ah. There is NO WAY that I can narrow this down to favourites, since I love it ALL and there's SO MUCH. ♥___♥ But here are two links: Treasure, Buried and Brooklyn Sketchbook

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Artist’s name:

crysothemis
Artist websites: own website Chez Crysothemis, and on deviantart (and just 2 artworks on AO3, which I'll link below).
About the artist: Crysothemis is a USA-based fanartist and fanfic writer who used to be active in SGA fandom - it's an older body of work, no longer being added to as far as I know.
Why this artist is awesome: Crysothemis's art will be well known to SGA fans but I still love these drawings and watercolours and wanted to share them.
Type of media used by this artist: mostly traditional - pencil drawings and watercolours, and a few digital works on Chez Crysothemis.
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Stargate Atlantis, due South

Links to some of my favourite artworks by this Artist:

John Sheppard with, um, wings - a good example of Crys's skill with pencil drawings, also a cute pic of Sheppard looking wry about his wings.

In Depth Examination - a wonderful view of shenanigans in the waters under Atlantis. Click through a few times to see the whole pic for the depth and perspective, then for the close-up of the bottom of the ocean.

Renaissance men and Vitruvian John (NSFW - nudity) - an AU John and Rodney in a Renaissance setting. The first pic has strategic objects protecting John's modesty, but not the second one!

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Artist Name: Aimo/Irma Ahmed
Artist Website(s): Tumblr, DeviantArt, Twitter
About the Artist: She's a Malaysian illustrator, comic book artist, and voice actor.
Why this Artist is awesome: She does expressive and versatile comic style art, from funny to sexy to sad. She's also a really lovely person!
Type of Media used by the Artist: Markers, watercolour, and digital.
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Fire Emblem, Pillars of Eternity, Star Wars
Links to some of my favourite artworks by this Artist:

Nakama A cute comic about her Dragon Age PC's friendship with Morrigan that shows off how Aimo can do both serious, realistic art and over the top silliness.

Dís, younger sister of Thorin Oakenshield Two of her favourite subjects: dwarves and beards :D

Happy Chinese New Year 2012 A cute little Skyrim themed message

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Artist Name: Naysu / Artmetica / Sheriff_Scientist / malaikat

Artist Website(s): DeviantArt | Tumblr

About the Artist: Nan is from Indonesia and loves drawing as a hobby

Why this Artist is awesome: I first saw her beautiful work when she offered to do art for

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Type of Media used by the Artist: Digital art/painting (2B mechanical pencil, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Wacom Bamboo Fun)

Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Eureka (in her early days), MCU, Supernatural, Teen Wolf

Links to some of your favourite artworks by this Artist:

- Open Your Eyes - Jack/Nathan, Eureka (as Sheriff-scientist)

- In the Shelter of Your Wings - Dean/Castiel, Supernatural

- Snow - Tony/Loki (Frostiron), MCU

And of course I cannot miss out the ones created for my Riddick/Vaako story back in 2010 - Dark Stars:
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Whee I love the theme. I wanted to talk about her anyway as soon as we do a resource post about watercolour.

Artist Name: Jenny Dolfen

Artist Website(s): Wordpress, Deviantart

About the Artist: I found her art years ago looking for Lord of the Rings fanart. I know she's a fellow German (and a teacher as well) and here's her talking about herself: About.

Why this Artist is awesome: Beautiful watercolour skills, I really love her colour schemes and how she creates atmosphere in her paintings. She does lovely tutorials as well.

Type of Media used by the Artist: watercolour, gouache, ink

Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Tolkien (with strong emphasis on Silmarillion art), Star Wars, Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts, Game of Thrones (a few), Roman history

Links:

The harp no longer sings

The sword and the harp

Gil-Galad was an Elven king gorgeous full body portrait with the softest shades of blue and a melancholy feel appropriate to the poem.

Aragorn

Finn Okay this one is new, I only just discovered it but immediately fell in love with her Finn.

Ben and little Rey an AU where Ben and Rey are at the Jedi academy. Body language and facial expressions in this one are fantastic.

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Artist Name: thefriendlypigeon

Artist Website(s): Tumblr

About the Artist: I don't know much about her other than she's German, friendly, and like pigeons.

Why this Artist is awesome: Beautiful graphic skills, fab use of colour, great imagination, good sense of humour, and creates awesome animated gifs. Oh and I love her signature too.

Type of Media used by the Artist: I think mostly digital

Fandoms in which the Artist has been active: Supernatural

Links to some of your favourite artworks by this Artist:

Halloween gif of Dean
One of a series of Castiel true form gifs
NSFW but non explicit threesome (Sam/Dean/Cas) - I love that her men have hairy legs
Step by step making a gif of trueform giant Cas.

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Type of Media used by the Artist (eg. Digital, various traditional materials, etc.)
Fandoms in which the Artist has been active
Links to some of your favourite artworks by this Artist

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