Austen picspam
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anghraineSo, good Austen fanart is not quite so abundant as SW -- though this may be that I tend to dislike the adaptations, especially the 1995 one, so the various versions of Colin Firth or whomever don't generally make the cut. Anyway, here's some of the stuff I've found.
There's this artist on deviantart, Himmapaan, who among other things insists that his (?) work is an illustrative response to literature based on research and his imagination, unlike those icky fans who, like Morgoth, can only imitate and never create, because fanart and illustration are completely dissimilar ... mm-hmm. However, he does do some beautiful, well-researched work, and I really enjoy his insistence on placing P&P in the 1790s and not the ubiquitous Regency. Here's one' of my favourites:
I think I have a crush on Caroline's wig. Also, is it just me, or does Darcy look a little like Jeremy Northam's Mr Knightley? Anyway, any Darcy with a book in his hands automatically gets points from me. Also, I love the material of the women's clothes, and the entire obviously-not-based-on-an-adaptation-at-all thing.
As you can see, this is from the Marvel Pride and Prejudice. I honestly didn't much care for what I saw of it -- I know, shocking -- but I thought this looked rather cool.
That said, I'm mildly bemused by how similar Darcy and Elizabeth look here. It's not just this, either -- Elizabeth often looks more like Darcy than her own sisters. It's pretty obviously because Darcy and Elizabeth have more similar personalities than pretty much anyone in the book, so the same stereotypes get attached to both. (Though occasionally both Jane and Elizabeth look more like Darcy than each other, which is the point at which I throw up my hands and decide Jane and Elizabeth were actually kidnapped as children and Jane is really Darcy's sister and Elizabeth is their cousin. Why not?)
Darcy and Elizabeth, by ellaine at deviantart.
I like ellaine's art and I like this, but I really prefer them to not be twins separated at birth.
Another deviantart artist, gppr, does some nice Austen work too:
I've always rather liked this picture, from 2006. And not only because, *gasp*, their hair isn't the same colour. I think it's the assembly? Anyway, I think it looks cool.
Four years later, the artist redid the picture. This one's obviously a bit more polished, and Darcy and Elizabeth look a bit more dissimilar (...though the colouring seems closer?), but ... I don't know. Some of the charm of the original's missing.
A detail of the above. Her fan looks kind of awesome! But Elizabeth is a bit too Snow White for me. And damn it, the colouring is exactly the same now.
And then the artist was kind enough to put them together for more convenient comparison.
Same artist, Bingley and Darcy at the assembly. Shiny!
...but for some reason they remind me of vampires. IDK.
Jane and Bingley!
I think this is the oldest of her pictures?
Yup.
sqbr is another of my favourite Austen artists, partly because her style is ... well, charming, and partly because it looks nothing like other people's art, and partly because she draws things I deeply feel need to be drawn.
Anne de Bourgh and Mary Bennet do not approve
This is basically an illustration for her Anne/Mary fic, Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise, which I haven't read because Maryfic and Annefic invariably annoy me and I assumed Anne/Maryfic would thus be significantly more annoying than either. However, trustworthy sources have assured me that the fic is actually really really good, and not annoying at all, so I'm planning to read it at some point when I'm not up to my ears in Burke and Kant. The versions of the characters in this picture -- nary a violet-eyed redhead to be seen! -- definitely moved the date up.
*squee*
One of my favourite scenes, just about universally ignored, and la! Here it is at its most cracky.
sqbr's version of Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice and Napoleonic Occupation by nextian, which I strongly recommend. And this is pretty much a perfect illustration of the fic.
Darcy and Elizabeth as TOS-era Kirk and Spock, by sqbr (of course!). Just, so much love. And even more because I had a teensy part in its creation -- basically, "hey, a ST/P&P crossover would be awesome." And it is.
That's right: steampunk Lady Catherine, with Anne as a brain in a jar...with a bow.
I always assumed sqbr just sat down one day and asked herself how she could be more awesome, and this came out. Because steampunk Austen. There's another one she did, too, with all of them and a random zeppelin, but I can't find it. :(
palnk's Austen stuff (again, at deviantart) is obviously influenced a lot more by adaptations, but it's fun.
Austen Boys
If I remember correctly, that's Colonel Brandon, Frederick Wentworth, George Wickham, Fitzwilliam Darcy, George Knightley, Edmund Bertram, Edward Ferrars, Henry Tilney, and Charles Bingley
Austen Girls
Fanny Price, obviously based on Billie Piper's, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (ahahahaha Marianne's expression is perfect), Catherine Morland praying for some reason (because her father's a clergyman, I guess), Elizabeth loling at everything just as she ought, Anne Elliot, and an inexplicably blue-eyed Emma.
Catherine Morland
Here she's definitely not based on the movie. <3
It's a little disconcerting, though, because she looks almost exactly like how I imagined Elizabeth in Subsequent Connections. A lot like Cecily, too. Though I suppose Cecily isn't that unlike Catherine, and it's a nice picture regardless.
Elizabeth Bennet
Something odd about her posture, but I still like it.
The Hunsford scene.
Smackdown coming in three, two, one ...
ahahahahahaha. I particularly liked the flying boot. (Yes, still palnk.)
Movieverse, but still funny.
And this is my favourite of palnk's. Partly because it's adorable and pretty and sparkly, but honestly, one of my biggest pet peeves in art and adaptations and everything is that Darcy is all broody and glowering and so on, when he smiles a lot in the book and is frankly much less dour than he's invariably portrayed. And finally! SMILING DARCY. And smiling Darcy with fake!pretentious Elizabeth?
<3 <3 <3
Elizabeth and Darcy. I really like her in this -- I think it's the more distinctive expression. Also, she's pretty but not staggering.
Darcy, on the other hand, looks terribly like Rochester. (I...don't know where I picked this up? Ack.)
I don't remember who the artist is, though I'm sure it must be at deviantart so I'll try to find it. I think I mostly saved this because Darcy looks strangely like my idea of Remus Lupin. I'm pretty sure that's a fic somewhere.
IT'S REGENCY TREK by lamamama at deviantart
Sarek and Amanda as Darcy and Elizabeth? Kate Beaton references? Kirk, Spock, and Bones as Bingley, Darcy, and Mr Hurst? Uhura existing?
Perfection.
Austen for furries, I guess. Again, I vaguely remember finding it on deviantart, so it must be there somewhere.
I'm not a big fan of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I really like Bingley and Darcy's adaptation-defying appearances, random zombies, and, of course, PENTAGRAM OF DEATH!
There's this artist on deviantart, Himmapaan, who among other things insists that his (?) work is an illustrative response to literature based on research and his imagination, unlike those icky fans who, like Morgoth, can only imitate and never create, because fanart and illustration are completely dissimilar ... mm-hmm. However, he does do some beautiful, well-researched work, and I really enjoy his insistence on placing P&P in the 1790s and not the ubiquitous Regency. Here's one' of my favourites:
I think I have a crush on Caroline's wig. Also, is it just me, or does Darcy look a little like Jeremy Northam's Mr Knightley? Anyway, any Darcy with a book in his hands automatically gets points from me. Also, I love the material of the women's clothes, and the entire obviously-not-based-on-an-adaptation-at-all thing.
As you can see, this is from the Marvel Pride and Prejudice. I honestly didn't much care for what I saw of it -- I know, shocking -- but I thought this looked rather cool.
That said, I'm mildly bemused by how similar Darcy and Elizabeth look here. It's not just this, either -- Elizabeth often looks more like Darcy than her own sisters. It's pretty obviously because Darcy and Elizabeth have more similar personalities than pretty much anyone in the book, so the same stereotypes get attached to both. (Though occasionally both Jane and Elizabeth look more like Darcy than each other, which is the point at which I throw up my hands and decide Jane and Elizabeth were actually kidnapped as children and Jane is really Darcy's sister and Elizabeth is their cousin. Why not?)
Darcy and Elizabeth, by ellaine at deviantart.
I like ellaine's art and I like this, but I really prefer them to not be twins separated at birth.
Another deviantart artist, gppr, does some nice Austen work too:
I've always rather liked this picture, from 2006. And not only because, *gasp*, their hair isn't the same colour. I think it's the assembly? Anyway, I think it looks cool.
Four years later, the artist redid the picture. This one's obviously a bit more polished, and Darcy and Elizabeth look a bit more dissimilar (...though the colouring seems closer?), but ... I don't know. Some of the charm of the original's missing.
A detail of the above. Her fan looks kind of awesome! But Elizabeth is a bit too Snow White for me. And damn it, the colouring is exactly the same now.
And then the artist was kind enough to put them together for more convenient comparison.
Same artist, Bingley and Darcy at the assembly. Shiny!
...but for some reason they remind me of vampires. IDK.
Jane and Bingley!
I think this is the oldest of her pictures?
Yup.
sqbr is another of my favourite Austen artists, partly because her style is ... well, charming, and partly because it looks nothing like other people's art, and partly because she draws things I deeply feel need to be drawn.
Anne de Bourgh and Mary Bennet do not approve
This is basically an illustration for her Anne/Mary fic, Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise, which I haven't read because Maryfic and Annefic invariably annoy me and I assumed Anne/Maryfic would thus be significantly more annoying than either. However, trustworthy sources have assured me that the fic is actually really really good, and not annoying at all, so I'm planning to read it at some point when I'm not up to my ears in Burke and Kant. The versions of the characters in this picture -- nary a violet-eyed redhead to be seen! -- definitely moved the date up.
*squee*
One of my favourite scenes, just about universally ignored, and la! Here it is at its most cracky.
sqbr's version of Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice and Napoleonic Occupation by nextian, which I strongly recommend. And this is pretty much a perfect illustration of the fic.
Darcy and Elizabeth as TOS-era Kirk and Spock, by sqbr (of course!). Just, so much love. And even more because I had a teensy part in its creation -- basically, "hey, a ST/P&P crossover would be awesome." And it is.
That's right: steampunk Lady Catherine, with Anne as a brain in a jar...with a bow.
I always assumed sqbr just sat down one day and asked herself how she could be more awesome, and this came out. Because steampunk Austen. There's another one she did, too, with all of them and a random zeppelin, but I can't find it. :(
palnk's Austen stuff (again, at deviantart) is obviously influenced a lot more by adaptations, but it's fun.
Austen Boys
If I remember correctly, that's Colonel Brandon, Frederick Wentworth, George Wickham, Fitzwilliam Darcy, George Knightley, Edmund Bertram, Edward Ferrars, Henry Tilney, and Charles Bingley
Austen Girls
Fanny Price, obviously based on Billie Piper's, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (ahahahaha Marianne's expression is perfect), Catherine Morland praying for some reason (because her father's a clergyman, I guess), Elizabeth loling at everything just as she ought, Anne Elliot, and an inexplicably blue-eyed Emma.
Catherine Morland
Here she's definitely not based on the movie. <3
It's a little disconcerting, though, because she looks almost exactly like how I imagined Elizabeth in Subsequent Connections. A lot like Cecily, too. Though I suppose Cecily isn't that unlike Catherine, and it's a nice picture regardless.
Elizabeth Bennet
Something odd about her posture, but I still like it.
The Hunsford scene.
Smackdown coming in three, two, one ...
ahahahahahaha. I particularly liked the flying boot. (Yes, still palnk.)
Movieverse, but still funny.
And this is my favourite of palnk's. Partly because it's adorable and pretty and sparkly, but honestly, one of my biggest pet peeves in art and adaptations and everything is that Darcy is all broody and glowering and so on, when he smiles a lot in the book and is frankly much less dour than he's invariably portrayed. And finally! SMILING DARCY. And smiling Darcy with fake!pretentious Elizabeth?
<3 <3 <3
Elizabeth and Darcy. I really like her in this -- I think it's the more distinctive expression. Also, she's pretty but not staggering.
Darcy, on the other hand, looks terribly like Rochester. (I...don't know where I picked this up? Ack.)
I don't remember who the artist is, though I'm sure it must be at deviantart so I'll try to find it. I think I mostly saved this because Darcy looks strangely like my idea of Remus Lupin. I'm pretty sure that's a fic somewhere.
IT'S REGENCY TREK by lamamama at deviantart
Sarek and Amanda as Darcy and Elizabeth? Kate Beaton references? Kirk, Spock, and Bones as Bingley, Darcy, and Mr Hurst? Uhura existing?
Perfection.
Austen for furries, I guess. Again, I vaguely remember finding it on deviantart, so it must be there somewhere.
I'm not a big fan of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I really like Bingley and Darcy's adaptation-defying appearances, random zombies, and, of course, PENTAGRAM OF DEATH!
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on 2011-11-27 02:51 am (UTC)Here's the other Steampunk Pride and Prejudice picture.
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on 2011-11-27 07:03 am (UTC)Oh, thank you for the link. I don't know how I missed it when I was hunting through deviantart, but I'll edit it in when I fix the links.
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on 2011-11-27 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-11-27 07:06 am (UTC)The laughing Darcy is a beautiful thing. I've complained for about five years about dour!brooding!humourless Darcy, and then LA. <3 And yeah, I think it's her sort of scrunchy nose and wide-open eyes that makes that. The Darcy is bizarre, though.
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on 2011-11-27 08:57 pm (UTC)Vampires: ahaha! Indeed--it's the too-pale skin paired with bolder colors, like a Twilight movie crossover. It's just wrong, if you ask me. Not a good look on anyone, much less Bingley and Darcy.
Laughing Darcy: I think this is my favourite.
I'm not a huge fan of drawing styles that give everyone big eyes, and with a few exceptions I find most of these rather visually uncreative, though the steampunk, StarTrek, furry, and P&P and Zombies all definitely get points for interpretive creativity.
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on 2011-11-28 06:08 am (UTC)I was thinking of Twilight, too. Gah.
Laughing Darcy is a definite favourite. I think it's also that it seems less entrenched in the movieverse? But mostly just that it's laughing Darcy.
Mmm, I like big eyes, but I did think as I was posting that a lot of these were oddly static, especially the Elizabeths -- I just figured it was the contrast with SW, but maybe not. And the ST and steampunk were definite favourites, with Himmapaan and laughing Darcy.
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on 2011-11-29 07:11 am (UTC)I do think I'm reacting in part to the contrast with the SW caps. Then I realized that Luke and Leia both also have ( = are shown as having) very big eyes...
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on 2011-12-05 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
on 2012-01-04 11:06 pm (UTC)New rereads are always an excellent idea, I think.