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An example of fan art – the Middle earth fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien is a common subject of fan art. A fan's depiction of Harry Potter. Fan art or fanart is artwork created by fans of a work of fiction or celebrity depicting events, character, or other aspect of the work.
DeviantArt hosts contests for upcoming movies, such as Riddick. Fan art for Riddick was submitted, and director David Twohy chose the winners, who would receive cash prizes and some other DeviantArt-related prizes, as well as having their artwork made into official fan-art posters for events.
Many artists use sites such as DeviantArt to display fan art based on existing and fan-created characters; [17] more than 500,000 pieces of Friendship Is Magic artwork were present on DeviantArt by June 2012. [63] Adult fans have also created a number of plush toys and other figures based on the show's and fandom-created characters.
Susan Booker, writing in the 2004 scholarly collection Tolkien on Film, notes that her own experience of interacting with fans bears out the general belief that "the fan fiction universe is composed mainly of the female sex". [4]
As of 2024, Fakemon are popular on websites such as DeviantArt, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit, [9] [10] as well as YouTube. [10] Some Fakemon designers are professional artists in the video game industry. [11] Fakemon design has been described as "a way for fans to express their individuality while honoring the franchise they love." [12]
Unnamed in the original comic, the character was dubbed "Bowsette" by English-speaking fans. A related hashtag quickly trended on Twitter, amassing over 150,000 mentions and fan art shortly after, with some renders giving the character darker skin and/or red hair as a callback to the original Bowser.
Fans of these franchises generated creative products like fan art and fan fiction at a time when typical science fiction fandom was focused on critical discussions. The MediaWest convention provided a video room and was instrumental in the emergence of fan vids , or analytic music videos based on a source, in the late 1970s. [ 15 ]
Tyson drew several pieces of fan-art for the platform game Freedom Planet after its release. His fan-art was later adopted by the game's developer and publisher, GalaxyTrail, for promotional purposes. [12] He later became the concept artist and character designer of the game's sequel, Freedom Planet 2. [13]