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Lion King fan artwork on the Internet, currently featuring
9803 artists with a total of 447042 published
pictures inspired by Disney's Lion King universe.
Administrator's Message:
Name conflicts (9/14/2010)
Time for some boring and confusing technical matters...
One of the most annoying things (yes, I know) about the design of the TLKFAA is the fact that user profiles and artist accounts are separate and can have different names. I want everyone to know that I'm actively working on a solution. However, it's tricky, because the whole reason the two account types have remained separate for so long is that there are name conflicts. You can't just make all the names the same, because there are lots of people who have registered user profiles using names that artists might want to use for their artist accounts, and so everything gets mixed up.
Currently there are 1,285 artists on the TLKFAA whose artist names don't match their user profiles; 486 of these are because there was already a user account there that had taken the artist name in question. That's actually a lot less than I'd feared.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to be working on resolving those 486 conflicts, whether by deleting old user profiles that haven't been used in years (and thus freeing up their names to be used by active artists), or by contacting the profile owners and working out a solution. (Hopefully there won't be a need for too many of the latter.)
Meanwhile, the 799 artists whose names don't match their user profiles: at some point in the possibly near future, you might find that your user profile name has changed to match your artist account name. You should be able to just log in using that name and keep going as usual. I'll make an announcement before that happens.
Is this confusing enough yet?
For most of you, this doesn't make any difference at all and you can safely ignore it. But for those it does affect, I'm going to make every possible effort to make this transition as smooth and seamless as possible. And if all goes well, the long-term benefit will be well worth it: I'll be able to redesign the site properly so that user profiles and artist accounts are merged properly and nobody ever has to think about the difference between them again.
Thanks for your patience, everyone!
—Brian
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Yea..Sorry..
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Re doing gallery apperance...
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Butterfly Lion - 00:34 Sat 1/28/2012
 Main Folder
Yay for random character!
Yus. I was really bored and wanted to make an OC in colour, but since I don't have colouring pencils or my laptop and tablet I decided to use some lineart by the awesome AmberJF, though I edited a little. Yeah. I actually kinda like this OC, but dunno if I'd be able to keep her, would anyone be interested if I put her on the TT?
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Edward_Elric - 00:06 Sat 1/28/2012
Art for others
Pretty Character 6... though the orignal design I made was much prettier. The person who bought it wanted me to change it XD! it was like ripping the meat off a cheeseburger. or taking off all the ornaments of a christmas tree
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Shiloh11 - 00:01 Sat 1/28/2012
For Others
Icon for Alexoz. My icon ran out of time on the TT before I could get this submitted.
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Chaos - 20:42 Fri 1/27/2012
Main Folder
Part Thirty-two of my "Shuffle Challenge"
For more information, see "Artist Comments" on my page.
Supposed to Be-Jack Johnson
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The Lion King Fan-Art Archive
iWannaBunny
For this month's spotlight, the members of the TLKFAA have selected one of the artists who has defied categorization in a great many ways
during the years he's been a part of the site. With a male perspective on the state of Lion King fan-art that's not very frequently
seen, and a history with this site that covers his entire life, his experience helps to put the entire history of the movie's fandom into a
fresh light. Let's take a look at some of his nearly 700 pictures.
In the Artist's Own
Words:
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*high pitched girly squeeling and giggling in the background*
....Wait. You guys must be playing a trick on me. Are you serious?!? I am literally shaking, and I can't believe this is actually happening.
I never imagined I would be on the list, and I'm so glad I'm the first of 2012! I guess this is my "New Years" present haha. Thank you so
much though! I don't understand-- *ahem* I'll just hush and start off with my history.
I guess I can start off by saying that I practically grew up with the Lion King. Ever since I could remember I would be drawing fanart of all
of the characters, mostly Simba and Nala of course. I would not take my hand off that paper. I remember even watching the movies and drawing
out the scenes on those huge, chalkboard-sized papers haha. Sometimes I'll even doodle up a little Kovu or something on my homework by
accident! I have so many stuffed animals and action figures of these movies, and I own all three of them. I'm going to take this day off as
an opportunity to celebrate by watching all of them in a row and going back to being 8 while playing with those toys haha.
Even though I haven't uploaded for a while and have been more active on my dA, I am still drawing animals and other creatures. Although I'm
young (almost 14 years old), I'm looking into the future and trying to find a great art college for me. I'm very enthusiastic about art, and
I have been since I was born. I guess it runs in my blood as corny as that sounds.
I've browsed this site since I was about 6 or 7, but made an account around age 9 (and yes I was a horrible troll). I was fascinated by the
art, and I looked up to every single artist. I usually still do, and I'm honored to have found some of my closest friends on this site. I
even met one of them in real life! But anyway, the only things I had to draw with were a mouse, pencil and paper. At one point I even had a
laptop track pad, and I can say that I have definitely grown since I got a tablet. I must say, I'm not as amazing as the rest of the AoTMs in
the past though! Although I haven't uploaded any of the doodles I've made since 2009 - 2010, I am very happy to be part of this community and
share my artwork with all of you wonderful people.
I guess I should stop babbling since my mind is numb at the moment and I can't stop shaking. This whole section probably sounds terrible
haha, but anyway. Thank you so much to every one who has voted for me, especially my friends. And thank you Brian for making such a wonderful
site. I'll try to be more active, but ta ta for now!
-Bunny/Sam
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Regularly taking part in the community-art atmosphere of Sketcher, iWannaBunny has spent his entire career at the Archive developing a whimsical,
spontaneous digital-art style that serves to put his dialogue into visual form as much as to capture the world of The Lion King. With
a broad variety of original characters and settings to draw from, his drawings illustrate an off-the-cuff, open-ended kind of stream of
consciousness that flows seamlessly in and out of the creative currents that drive him to explore and push the limits of his skills.
There's plenty of canon art in iWannaBunny's gallery, but that isn't the primary focus. Rather, as an artist who has branched out recently into
other subject matter and set up shop on other art sites such as DeviantArt (which help to encourage a broader range of inspiration), he's not
limiting himself to The Lion King as the sole reason for him to create. He's drawing because he enjoys it in and of itself, in
whatever situation or atmosphere presents itself.
The result is art that covers an extraordinary range and is never predictable or typecast. Portaits of other artists' characters jostle for
space with furries, lionizations, and fan-art of grassroots sources as offbeat as Robot Unicorn Attack and Homestuck. The bulk
of his work, though, goes to collaborations and trades with his fellow artists, all of whom share the same kind of artistic vernacular, in
which a digital drawing is its own reward and its own motivation, an expression of camaraderie and affection that builds with each new
elaboration and variation.
iWannaBunny's skill has rapidly grown since he began uploading art here in 2009, and in the three years since then he has established a unique and
flowing style that permeates several different kinds of distinctive visual art that his experimentation covers. Characters sketched on white
backgrounds convey their purpose: a quick lesson learned, a spontaneous thought to express, an impression to capture in leonine form. Not
many of iWannaBunny's pictures are fully developed to the level of polish that marks some artists' work, but their sheer energy and lighthearted,
open-edged attitude is engaging on its own level. It's small wonder that so many of his friends have deemed his work worthy of recognition.
Whether his artistic development continues to take him far afield into other, more general-purpose art sites or to spur a renewal of his
interest in Lion King art showcased here, the Archive will definitely be the better for having iWannaBunny as part of its community.
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