Hello! I wanted to share a piece of fanart I made for a novel called Sea & Storm Chronicles by @Elanor that is starting out here on Tapas.
(You can critisize the picture if you feel like it. No hard feelings. As Matt Bellamy says: No dumbing it down, just break it to me. )
I'm making this thread just to help her out, but I also have some questions that popped while making it, since it's the first fanart piece I ever made for a small novel on Tapas.
I asked her about the designs of her characters to try and make them resemble the characters she imagines when she writes them, but in order to accomplish that perfectly I would have had to go through a pretty complex design process I did not quite follow through and through, because... I wonder, at which point does it stop being fanart and starts being more like pseudo-official artwork? (When the initiative and the intent of making them as canon as possible comes from the artist).
I mean, I know I could have just done whatever I had in my mind without even asking her, that's why it's fanart, but I usually still value the author's opinion a lot, specially when their characters are not graphically developed and I can easily get in touch. What do you guys think about all this nonsense? Do you artists value the author's opinion and wanna make the characters in a way they enjoy the most, regarding novels? And what would you like/expect as authors? Do you not care at all? (Remember, I'm talking about small authors that are part of this community.)
Enjoy the read if you're into it!