GRIM AND GRITTY: THE NEGADUCK/JIM STARLING CHARITY DIGITAL PDF FANZINE is here!
It’s been a few months, but with a lot of patience and hard work, the Negaduck zine is finally out! This zine contains many wonderful pieces of fanart and fanfic by very talented people, which are:
AtlasWasHere x bl3randomfandoms x Ballpitbee x bubble-within-time-art x Dani Hapunkt x Dweeb_art00 x Emily L'Orange x Goku-san x ichosepoorly x JavaFlux x keksbela-art x mistress-arts x momonoki23 x nemznemz x penbwl x pharaoh-ink x Ray x schadenfredde x sheepmouse x shirobutterfly x varqworks x toonqueen x and myself!
So, how do you get your hands on a copy of this zine? Well, follow the rules below!
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we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead
case in point
this is a Hell of a downgrade
worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.
I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and
this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also
many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist
Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.
She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:
If you’re a part of the ducktales fandom, the darkwing duck fandom, or just the duckverse in general, you can join and make friends who like the same things!
A popular commission theme at Wondercon was “grown-up” Gosalyn. And of course she would end up taller than Darkwing.
#darkwingduck #gosalynmallard #quiverwingquack
