slapdash recommendations



Fan Art by dafnap (One More Cliche).
Wallpapers, manips, collages, icons... All sorts of prettiness for shows like Angel, BtVS, Farscape and Alias (to name a few), very very skillfully photoshopped, and often funny to boot. I particularly like her pulp fiction spoofs.


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Fan Art by Vrya (Tangled Synthesis).
I love this site, it's a veritable cornucopia, darlings. Songvids, sounds (episode mixes), and images focused on the Jossverse (Angel, BtVS, Firefly), even instructions on making Buffyesque clothing and how to Photoshop. The images are beautifully constructed collages and manips, including wallpapers, CD covers, box covers, bookmarks, episode-related banners, icons and avatars. Eyecandy.


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Art by Ted Nasmith.
My favourite section of this site is his large collection of Lord of the Rings art, subtly and interestingly different from what we see in the movies. I especially liked the Silmarillion section, since I didn't have any movie-inspired preconceptions, and 'Eowyn and Faramir', the landscape of 'At the Court of the Fountain' and the creature-feature 'The Nazgul' in the RotK section. It's all exquisite, jewel-like stuff by a published Tolkien artist, and there are even notes on the media used and comments by Ted himself.


Comic Art by Gareth Hinds.
A professional artist who created a pretty darn cool graphic version of Beowulf. The site also features a comic called Deus Ex Machina: 'an experimental, serialized online comic about myth, consciousness, death, and tomfoolery. Following a set of quasi-mythical gods and a poor fool named Cam, the styles and themes of Deus are constantly evolving'. Beautiful art.


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Art by Clair Wendling.
The sight is en Francais, so go to Galeries and enjoy. Pastels, animation, line drawings, comic covers... allsorts, really. Mostly people and animals and all beautifully, beautifully done.


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Media Wallpapers by Crawwly.
TV Show, Musician, Actor, Movie and Random wallpaper by someone who shares my taste in totty to a wow, sharing brains, extent (hello Rufus Sewell!). The thing I like best about these wallpapers (apart from the fab colours) is the low level of annoying, illegible and obscure quotation scrawled all over the pretty. You might get a name. Maybe. I'm slightly ashamed of it, but one of my favourites is Britney Spears number three, which is all manga fairy princess. Stop me.


Smallville Historical Art by Various.
A set of photomanips for a Smallville Historical AU challenge archive. All Clark/Lex all the way. Some are smoother than others but they all make me smile. I like 'The Stuff of Legends' (Gladiator!Clex), 'Knights Errant' (Medieval!Clex) and 'In The Navy' (Hornblower!Clex) the most.


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Fairy Art by Amy Brown (also her print archive).
Fairy art in the style of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies, with a bit more punk. I like her tattooed fairies. All colour, all the way, and very, very pretty. We, the punter, can also buy prints, figurines, calenders et al.. An extremely prolific artist, so lots to see.


Fairy Art by Various (for backgrounds and wallpapers go here).
Wonderfully whimsical fairytale art by Victorian artists including Arthur Rackham (Wind in the Willows & Alice In Wonderland among others), Edmund Dulac (including Arabian Nights), Gustave Dore (Divine Comedy and Sleeping Beauty etc.) and Aubrey Beardsley. There are also William Morris and Pre-Raphaelite images. Eye candy and a fantastic resource.


Manga Art at Amadeus.
Japanese style-ee original fantasy art with some fan art thrown in. A lot of different flavours here. My favourites are the delicate watercolours and the sketchier line drawings [dang, I wish I knew the technical terms]. I'm a sucker for figures and portraits, but there are also some beautiful little landscapes here. Some of the work seems strongly Deco to me as well. Lots to see and oggle at. Favourites are 'Dragon', 'Smoker', 'Sense' and 'Uzu' in the Junk section. The site is in Japanese but easy to navigate for folk like me who don't read Japanese.


Manga Art by Jo Chen.
Computer graphics, paintings, pen and inks and drawings by a professional Manga artist (artist for Racer X and Darkminds Macropolis, among others). That means minimum cutesiness and stonkin' good portraiture. My favourite sections are the pen and ink and sketches. [Quick link » Frodo and Frodo n Sam]


Fan & Original Art by Laura Freeman.
Colour and black & white art, strongly influenced by Tamara de Lempicka and Aubrey Beardsley. Includes LotR (principally Brad Dourif), HP, theatre posters, Alan Rickman and lots of witty original images (mainly fantasy stuff). The Harry Potter gallery has some wicked Tarot art to boot and portraits of just about every HP figure in the character directory. My favourite is Sybil Trelawney. I also love Ursula (from 'Little Mermaid') in the fan art section.


Fan Art by Kara. (Site is MIA)
I liked the art in the Misc section, particularly a stunning black & white Chiana (from Farscape), Tulio and Miguel from Disney's 'Road to El Dorado', and Lilo and Stitch (ee! so cute). There's also HP, Star Wars and LotR fan art.


Fan Art by Maki.
Three fandoms are represented here: FF8, HP and LotR. Some black & white, but mostly colour. There are two drawings here that I really like, a drop dead gorgeous Harry Potter portrait, and the Legolas nude. Oh, and Angelina Johnson's arse.


Fan Art by Gloriosa (Site is MIA).
Harry Potter & LotR. There may be other fandoms here, but these are the two I looked at. More Manga style art, but there are some lovely portraits here and yay! a Boromir and a Snape fan. Be still my heart. The site's mostly in Japanese (I'm, um, assuming) so a little hard to navigate for the likes of me. LotR is the third link down on the 'illustrations' page, and HP the fifth link. Both illustrations and comics, plus Harry/Snape slash and Boromir/Aragorn. Also (hee!) Legolas ice-skating.


Harry Potter Art by Snaples.
Heavy on the Snape and the Harry and sometimes the Snape and the Harry. The 70s pictures made me laugh. Also Snape as Mary Poppins.


Harry Potter Art by Kurosusutoutou.
I'm always leery of Manga style Harry Potter art because it's been done so badly in so many places and it just seems wrong but this is beautiful stuff. I don't like all of it, but numbers 3, 11 and 14 float my boat, they look like some kind of underground edition of HP, and number 32 made me giggle. A lot of mildly slashy Harry and Draco. There's also fan art here for 'Naruto', and unidentified 'Other' - #2 of which looks a lot like Aragorn/Legolas to me. But then I've got Aragorn on the brain.


Harry Potter Art by Marta.
The sort of art that I can imagine appearing in the Harry Potter books.


Harry Potter Art by Glockgal.
This isn't really my thing, but I can at least tell it's bloody good, and I like the fact that the artist seems to have a number of styles. Plus, yay, HP slash art. Black & white and colour, mostly manga slick (I don't think there's any chibi art). I did like her 'Scabbers and Ron Weasely', in the general art section, and the 'Gryffindor Quidditch Team' made me laugh.


Harry Potter Art by Lisa Rourke (Sorry, this was the best link I could find)
Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Seamus, Lily, Sirius, Lupin, James, Dumbledore and Snape. Hand drawn portraits, mostly black & white, a few in colour. My favourites are the three at the bottom of the page, 'The Potions Master' (a particularly romantic Snape), 'Albus' (pure wizard) and 'Winter Lupin' (yes. please.). I also liked 'Young Harry'. What's best about them is not just the skill and imagination in the portraiture (interestingly, none of them are carbon copies of the actors) but that the artist hasn't gone the way of cutesy manga of most HP art.


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