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

[tabaqui]

I look at the art, but to be honest.....a lot of the art i see is just not all that *good*, and i have a hard time coming up with something to say if i don't care for the art.

Some is awesome, it's true, but a lot is just...not to my taste. So i do click and look, but i only comment if i *really* liked it, and sometimes i feel bad 'cause a fic is *really really* good and the art is only so so.

Maybe i'm just spoiled, having been married to an awesome artist for so many years, and surrounded by artists all the time....

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

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?

Simply said, if the story is crap, it's still crap. The art may be spectacular, but the story is rubbish. Why is there even a debate about this?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I would think that being an illustrator for bad fanfic is much easier than being an illustrator for bad profic!--because no matter how bad the story is, you can draw Sheppard, or Daniel Jackson, or Sam Winchester, who presumably you enjoy looking at if you're in the fandom.