Wrapping Paper 2021

[karanguni]

The Wrapping Paper art challenge for Yuletide is an opportunity for those who love art to give and receive fanart treats, in the spirit of the crossover, interactive fiction, and drabble challenges.

You can comment here to request art.

You can read the comments to find someone to treat.

Be sure to post your treats to the Madness Collection. Art is not permitted in the main collection.

Tag your treats with 'Wrapping Paper'.

Please respect your recipient's wishes as to whether they'd like art as a treat.

If you want to receive art, please provide this info in the comments:

<strong>AO3 Handle:</strong> <strong>Letter Link:</strong> <strong>Fandom and character(s):</strong> <strong>Prompts:</strong>

Happy treating!

(I am the god of previous year challenge post copypasta this year, so let me know if this post needs updating!)

Comments

[daken]

spock!

letter.

300 (movies) — astinos, stelios
american horror stories: rubber(wo)man — adam, troy winslow
the nevers (tv 2021) — frank mundi, hugo swann
the power of the dog - thomas savage — bronco henry, peter gordon, phil burbank
romulus (tv 2020) — enitos, wiros, yemos

Art is absolutely witchcraft to me and I'm impressed by many of the forms it takes. All of my prompts and general likes (and dislikes) absolutely pertain to what I like to see in art; that includes always being excited for explicit artwork if that's what you wanna make! My only art-specific DNWs are manips & the Byzantine/Gothic styles (...don't @ me; I do, however, like Romanesque, Insular, and Illuminated Manuscript styles, if your personal style lends itself to an iconoclastic influence and you were sad that I don't like Byzantine).

The most important thing for me in art is the composition/subject matter. I enjoy looking at things, finding little details, decoding symbolism — and because of that, I typically enjoy a wide range of styles. For me you can't go wrong with genre scenes or an emotional or pivotal moment that looks like it could be proudly displayed in the middle of a chapter — or even as the 'cover' of a comic book, novel, or DVD box. On the other hand, when I tell you I would love something completely stylized or abstracted so you have to truly think about how it fits!!!!

I adore details (hands, eyes, body postures or positioning, et cetera), in case you'd like to zero in on that rather than doing anything full-bodied. I also wouldn't mind a landscape piece where you really have to hunt for the character(s) hidden within. For styles, I enjoy everything from Realistic, comic-book or anime & similar styles, to especially abstract & stylized takes! From a design perspective, I adore sketch-like and rough-edged pieces, as well as any sort of coloring that is "messy"/goes "outside" the lines. That said, if you have the time and inclination for a fully finished piece, I would be over the moon.

In terms of color palettes & style/mood/composition, I'm especially into Renaissance Art, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Luminism, Surrealism, & Baroque Art. Extrapolating from that, I guess I like the extremes of either pastels or really bold colors, the interplay of dark/light & shadows with a close focus on the subject involved where the background can vary from nothingness to a whole piece in itself.

I always end up feeling charmed/moved by anything with a strong sense of aesthetic or personality, as annoyingly vague as that probably is. If you're an artist who likes visual reference points of the various, (non-exhaustive) styles that I enjoy, I have some examples linked in a past letter.