PotC Recs Weekly #67

[aletheiafelinea]

The recs, apart from being recs, are also prompts. If you write something inspired by these works, the link for your fic will be added to the entry.
The Masterlist





Jack Sparrow - unfinished by foreverdelayed

IMPORTANT See the artwork before you read the comment, either the artist's or mine.
Done? OK.
This is a very particular artpiece. Having come across it for the first time, some four or five years ago, I was striken how strange it is. "It's good," I thought, "but it's not Jack Sparrow." Have you noticed that Jack almost never looks straight at the interlocutor? Always a bit aslant, yet always suggestive, meaningful, vivid, and never without a trace of tension, never without the everchanging restless expression. "He looks like Johnny," I thought, "disguised for Jack." A nonsense thought, wasn't it? Anyway, who's Jack, if not disguised Johnny, one can say? So you can imagine my dropping jaw when I went to the artist's comment, and found it saying: face taken from a picture of johnny and I jack-sparrow-ised it. Well, after that, can anyone still not see what is the difference between starring in a movie and creating a character? The drawing is an amazing tribute for two talents - the actor able to disappear behind a character brought to life, and the artist able to catch the difference between both of them.

Maccus by Raph04art


Tia Dalma - Lineart by VoxVulpina



So, anyone willing to see more recs? :)

Comments

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I can only say "Wow" to each of those. That first one is such a wonderful piece, one that I saved to my hard drive many years ago. The comments are interesting, thank you for pointing them out -- and very perceptive of you to realize what was going on there, too!

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Lucky you, I remember it without a watermark back then and fortunately I have it too. It was one of the most intriguing fanarts..

[jennifer weston (from livejournal.com)]

That's a most interesting portrait of Maccus. It's the only one I've seen (of any of Davy's crew) that conveys the sense of torment they must feel, being trapped inside such bodies. They owe Will, bigtime.

Nice Tia sketch too. It captures the vixen in her (Jack must be familiar with that.)

But thanks to your commentary, foreverdelayed's work takes the prize. I'd have overlooked that 'difference' if you hadn't pointed it out, but once you did, I couldn't see anything else. Bravo to the both of you!

And Bravo, as always, for your lovely selections. :)

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

It's always interesting to see a fanart for less popular character.

I'm really happy I could contribute something to this artwork's reception. :)