I think about a Jo & Victor piece I did, for instance. I know views and comments would only loosely translate into prompt grabbing, but barely anyone looked, and fewer commented. I thought the idea of Jo and Victor working together was fascinating! But clearly people prefer to see Dean and Cas cuddling in bed.

Now, I ain't complaining--I love that something fierce. But I tend to love everything I draw, and I get a little defensive of the canon stuff that gets no attention, when I know the quality hasn't dropped off. I really can't find anyone that wants to look at Sam/Ruby more than me? More than me?

Basically, audiences are weird, and since I will draw Sam/Gabriel but not read it, I guess I'm weird too.

{{{Sail}}}

It's not filled with common characters nor is it a configuration that's ever been on the show. I know that cuts my chances down right there.

For me, it's that lack of commonality and the "huh, never seen that before" that would draw me to a picture. I like prompts that stretch my imagination rather than ones that merely slot into ideas I already had.

I was curious and late this afternoon took a peek to see if there were any prompts left open. There were five: three crossovers with other TV/movies and two genderswaps. I'm guessing genderswap is another area where artists don't always feel comfortable with the changes to what they know.

nevermind me

bitch bitch bitch, whine whine whine.

If anyone has ever lived in Beacon Hill or visited one of the homes there, could you help me out with general layouts of the townhouses/brownstones there, if they were intended to one-family homes, how apartment/multiple-family conversion changed the layout, courtyards (communal? shared by all adjacent buildings and tenants?), basements, trash pick-up, where the washer/dryer are located, etc. All I know is what I've seen from the street. The brick, wrought iron, and the awesomely creepy little semi-sunken alleys to the back of the buildings.

(I'm looking at blueprints online, but so far they're of modern brownstones with 2-car garages at the back).

I'm guessing genderswap is another area where artists don't always feel comfortable with the changes to what they know.

There's so much room for interpretation with genderswap that I think the subjective quality of it varies more widely than with standard gender drawings. After all, the art might be technically supergood, but it's just not how you swapped genders. Some people feminise (petite-madame is pretty good at it), some people reimagine (cafe de labeill), and some people recast (there was a sweeping fem!Dean=Katee Sackhoff for a while, for instance).

Oh, yeah, that is so true. For me, I tend to prefer feminized versions of the characters I know or I recast them; the folks who totally reimagine them lose me. I need a known physical point of reference to work with, even if it's only in my own head and not on paper.

That is so funny about Katee Sackhoff, though, because she's the preferred recast for a fem!Jim Kirk. Hee. Lady gets around.

I've done both re-imagining and feminising, but none of the straight up feminised ones got published.

FUCK. One of my characters' heads is too small. If I were defter with GIMP, I could fix it in there, but I'm not and I need to erase an actual decent likeness BITCH.

But before I start the last likeness, the really difficult one, I will make sure the head is the right size. As few do-overs as possible there.

Whee! Submission is off. It's all in the reversebang authors' hands now. And I even digitally resized the teeny head.

MY HEAD IS LITERALLY EXPLODING!! MY LIFE FORCE CLEARLY TIED TO NATTER!!! SEND HELP!