Rebecca JJ ([info]purplerebecca) wrote,
@ 2007-08-06 23:22:00
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Edward Cullen Hates Me.
Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse", book 3 of the Twilight series, comes out today. XD
In celebration, I set my bum down and actually finished my painterly portrait of Edward I've had on my harddrive for months now.

Edward Cullen Hates Me.

From Chapter 1, 'First Sight', of the first novel, "Twilight".

1280x1024 wallpaper size available to download off deviantart.
photoshop, references from all over the internet, too many hours.

Watercolors I posted earlier but never blogged about:


I've been on a Potter high and been reading Snape fanfic again. Love. Why is it that finding a good romantic fanfiction seems to be so much easier then finding a professionally published romance novel that doesn't irritate the heck out of me?
Am I more tolerate of fanfic because I expect lots of junk before the gold? Or are romance novels really just lots of lust, bad choices, and bad writing? Where am I supposed to get my romantic fix if everything that's supposed to accomplish it is just drivel? Back to the fic I go!

Last night I got a fabulous idea for my next original comic/graphic novel project:
I'm going to take two great concepts that deserve more exploring, one pulled from fanfiction, and another from an obnoxious romance novel I read recently, and put them together into a scifi romance with no supernatural elements. Which means I'll have to actually do research into the physics behind their spacetravel, darnit. But it'll be mostly romance, and it'll be great. XD Look for it in another 10 years or so. :P


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[info]more_dragoncelt
2007-08-07 01:55 pm UTC (link)
The green-haired guy looks sort of like an icon I found and saved because it looked like Evan, heh.

Man, I'm going to have to see if my library has any Stephanie Meyer, though I have never been a fan of vampire books (except for Sunshine, mmm, Robin McKinley vampires are awesome)

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[info]tatterpunk
2007-08-07 07:03 pm UTC (link)
Why is it that finding a good romantic fanfiction seems to be so much easier then finding a professionally published romance novel that doesn't irritate the heck out of me?

Do you know, I was thinking about this myself recently?

I suspect it's because the publishing industry regards Romance as quantity over quality -- they know what sells, and it sells like hotcakes, so there's a lot of formula-pushing in an industry where experimentation can lead to backlash.

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[info]spiffariffic
2007-08-07 10:44 pm UTC (link)
I've been hearing a lot about those books lately. Had no idea what they were about until recently, though.

The sun and moon watercolor is gorgeous. I think most people think of the sun as male and the moon female, though I'm not really sure why. The Silmarillion has them the other way around - female sun, male moon. I like seeing things switched around every so often.

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[info]kogarashi
2007-08-08 11:11 pm UTC (link)
Huh. In Shadowscapes (you know, my sorely neglected webmanga), I have a Sungoddess and a Moongod. ::shrug::

Hey, whatever happened to Dogwood?

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