Christian Speculative Fiction discussion

Hi all! I was wondering if any of our authors have received fan art inspired by your writing? I have a friend who writes Steam Punk who has a following and he receives fan art drawn by his readers. I'm guessing he has an online presence in a venue that allows his readers to share this art with him in public.

Do you receive fan art?

Do you know what kind of online presence is required to build that kind of fan base?

Any thoughts you have related to this are most welcome.

yes I've gotten fan art. it's fun :-) just from Twitter/Facebook

I'm not sure if this technically counts as fan art, but my art pupil has been doing art trades with me, drawing some of my characters in return for me drawing hers.

https://www.tkarispe.com/2020/11/blog...

I think it's super awesome to see my characters in her unique style! She likes drawing wolves, and thankfully I have some werewolf and anthropomorphic wolf characters for her.

I also got some pieces of fan art when I did a webcomic some years back. It really meant a lot to me.

I absolutely love receiving fan art--it means that someone likes my work enough that it inspires their creativity, which is awesome! And like Daria said, it's really fun and interesting to see how other people imagine my characters!

I also really love rewarding people who send me fan art with lots of praise and showing it off to the world. :) If you send me fan art, prepare to get attention!

Oh wow - they brought a smile to my early morning face!

That's wonderful! I'll have to let the artist know. :)

T.K. wrote: "I'm not sure if this technically counts as fan art, but my art pupil has been doing art trades with me, drawing some of my characters in return for me drawing hers.

https://www.tkarispe.com/2020/1..."

I'd call that fan art. And, she's got a really cool style. Strikes me as somewhat anime.

I told her you said that, and she said to tell you thanks! I love her style, it's really unique. I'm so proud of how much she's grown and improved as an artist in the time I've known her! (I can really only partially take credit for it, she does a lot of practice and learning on her own time as well.)

I think I could die happy if I saw fan art of some of my characters. :) Maybe one day...

J.K. wrote: "I think I could die happy if I saw fan art of some of my characters. :) Maybe one day..."

I hope you get some someday! That would be awesome!