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9881 artists with a total of 450004 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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Jedi Force - 21:37 Wed 5/16/2012
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I forgot to upload this :o I can't remember who did the lineart :c I think I'll keep this char who I have named Slush.
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The Lion King Fan-Art Archive
Featured Artist of the Month (April 2012)
Kash
Kash and the TLKFAA go back a long way. Indeed, with an account that dates back to 2006 with over 1400 pictures, she's one of the artists
who has contributed the most to what has made this site and this community such a special place over the years. It high time she earned some
recognition for all that creative work and what an example she has set for the rest of the online Lion King fandom.
In the Artist's Own
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AOTM wow.. I dunno what to say you guys. I mean, wow. I was nose deep in Adobe Illustrator when I got this message.
Let's see, I suppose a speech is in order right? Right!
So let's begin with how I found this awesome place. I'll admit I didn't come here first hand. I lurked on deviantART to begin with way back
when. Most notable artist that I stalked was Balaa. It wasn't till she had advertised she was on TLKFAA that I followed her here, stalking for
several more years before joining up in 2006.
I've met a lot of pawesome friends since then. And made a bit of a nuisance of myself at some times. We all make mistakes we're not proud of
in the end. To err is to be human right?
I would like to address some things that I have noticed a lot of new artists ask about before I go. Tablets don't make you a better artist.
You make yourself a better artist with what tools you have at your disposal. There are plenty of talented artists on this fine site that have
nothing but a mouse and a scanner to work with. And their art is super amazing, Like Edward_Elrid32, Maquenda, and Supernova. These artists
only need the tools at their ready disposal such as Sketcher, or MSPaint.
There is no need to trace screenshots or other artists either. Hard work and perseverance is what makes you exceed your expectations in art.
Not fancy tracing. It's as I say; An artist's style is like a fingerprint, each one is unique. And when it comes to drawing, it's a matter of
having fun. Let music or colors inspire your art. When it comes to a fan artist, there's more than meet's the eye.
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Kash has spent the past six years working hard at developing a signature, stylized look and feel for her art, which can be seen in many of
the examples here. Her most recent work sports a clean, smooth outline quality and appealing solid coloring that complements the Flash
texture seen in many modern-day animated properties that have learned to take full advantage of the capabilities of vector technology. Her
adaptation of that style to her Lion King characters is appealing and natural, yet entirely unique to her—just as she says, even
though the techniques of the style owe a lot to the visual texture currently in commercial vogue, nobody would peg her art as being anything
other than her own.
It's the mark of a really gifted artist that he or she is able to work not only perfectly on-model, but also to adapt existing characters in a
predefined milieu into a new and unique setting where they retain their recognizability, their appeal, their core essence. Kash is one of
the artists who clearly has this ability; her gallery's recent pages are full of studies of the familiar Lion King characters (and ones
derived from their universe), reinterpreted in a smooth, appealing vectorized way—it brings to mind thoughts of what The Lion
King might look like if it were animated brand-new today, using the tools that forward-thinking studios are harnessing to create fluid
movement and intricate facial acting, even on a budget that would have crippled a studio working in traditional 2D techniques.
This isn't, however, to say that Kash doesn't spend any time in the world of traditional art. A quick perusal of her gallery shows numerous
pencil sketches and blue-lined animation drawings rendered in physical media, which she uses as the basis for her fluid vector designs just
like many of the industry's guiding lights do. Plenty of artists, after all, are most comfortable with a pencil in their hands, even if their
art's final destiny is to be transformed into vectors. It just goes to show, as Kash herself testifies, that a digital tablet is not a
cure-all to artistic success, nor is it inherently a better tool for the job than a pencil and a pad of paper. Lots of artists have become
comfortable enough drawing directly into digital data that it's second nature; but there will always be a contingent that swears by the
tried-and-true tools that will always work, no matter where you are or what computing equipment is at your disposal.
Six years is a long time, and Kash has used that time wisely and productively—well over a thousand pictures uploaded here is no small
accomplishment. What is especially remarkable is that her body of work has shown such steady, self-evidently introspective progress over that
time. Anyone interested in seeing what a really successful trajectory toward greatness might look like would do well to give Kash's gallery
a look, as have so many of her friends and fans here on the Archive.
Congratulations, Kash, and here's to many more years of pushing the envelope!
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