Art and Big Bang

[lunabee34]

So as I'm wending my way through the last of the SPN Big Bang offerings from this year, something struck me.

Are the art and the fic treated as separate entities? I never click on the art posts (well except for that steampunk story last year because OMG! so freaking cool); I look at the art as it's integrated into the story, but that's pretty much it. However, I know that there are art communities just like there are fic communities and lots of people who interact with fandom in primarily that way which leads me to believe that people less lame than me *are* clicking on the art posts. So I'm wondering, does the art post ever get a ton of comments while not so much the fic?

And what happens when the story is crap but the art is good? Does the merit of the story predict the response to the art?

You artists on the flist--how do you make art for a story you think is crap? Or that you wish heartily you'd gotten the change to beta? LOL Is it along the lines of writing for a ficathon prompt that you would never in a million years have chosen and that sort of makes your eyes want to bleed a little?

Now I am all interested in the visual art side of fandom. I was late to the "icons are cool" portion of fandom and super late to vids given that this is the first year we weren't suffering with dialup and I'm starting to realize there is yet another amazing aspect of fandom that I haven't yet explored.

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*you're not a horrible writer*

Well, no. Of course not. It is I, Lorraine. LOL I just meant, I can't read as freely as a lot of people I know in fandom because too much of the fic I encounter makes me want to bleach my brain. :)

I also have a hard time saying anything articulate about art. It's a vocabulary with which I am almost wholly unfamiliar. I can go, "Fire bad. Tree pretty," and that's about it. *snort*

[tabaqui]

Heeeeeee.
Oh gods, yes. Some stuff just....the wince is *painful*, it's so hard.

I kinda-sorta can articulate 2-d art likes and dislikes, but vids are just...omg. I *cannot*. It's so frustrating. And i *love* a good vid. A lot of what i write comes into my brain *like* a vid, little bits of images and motion and such and i just wish i could say what makes some vids make me *stare* and fall in love.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Somebody should (and probably already has) write a post about what the different techniques and themes in vids are and how to talk about them. Vids for Dummies. I would read the shit out of that.

I remember some of Art Appreciation and several of my friends are artists, so I know a little there, but not nearly enough.

[tabaqui]

Possibly it would help. But i've never been good at the academic approach to things, heh.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't completely into the academical approach to well, everything, but I was thinking along the lines of something waaaaaay more accessible like: this is called a high angle shot and we use it to make the character seem all woobified and alone; when the screen circles down in on itself, that's called an iris, and it seems old timey. *g*. Like that.

[tabaqui]

Ah ha ha. I think.....i would have a lot of trouble just *remembering*. I am so lame. Heh.

So far, i limp by on squee and incoherent flailing. :)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

It's a good look on you.

[tabaqui]

*snickers madly*