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mekare ([personal profile] mekare) wrote in [community profile] drawesome2025-11-19 01:28 pm

Fanartist rec: Kaitlin Wadley

Fanartist's name: dorkbait, Kaitlin Wadley
Content Notes: some works are explicit, or feature injuries (think of the Winter Soldier here)
Medium: traditional, mixed media
Artist's main websites: Official website, [tumblr.com profile] dorkbait
About this artist: Kaitlin is a professionally trained artist from the US. I first came across her work on Tumblr while I was deeply in Marvel fandom after the Captain America films. I love her style of painting portraits and the focus on portraying vulnerability and identity issues from a female gazey perspective.
The stuff from the 2010s was mostly ink, gouache and acrylics, but it seem she recently started embroidery art too (see example below).

I think partly my work with Bucky does stem from a kind of longstanding frustration with the MCU’s continued refusal to give me what I want. It’s kind of a vicious cycle, because I go into the movies hopeful but knowing that I’m probably not going to get a coherent emotional arc or an examination of Bucky’s psyche, and then of course neither of those things ever happen. So I end up thinking, well, I guess I better make that for myself!

Source: This article at the Daily Dot by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

I can relate to this quote so much, especially regarding all my feelings about Bucky several years ago.

Examples:

silk embroidered bird (G rating)

Bucky Inktober piece from 2015 (I‘d rate this one T because of "viscuous nightmare fluid"), it‘s best to look at the whole Inktober series in sequence because each art piece also features a bit of writing which shows Bucky‘s journey dealing with recovering his sense of self.

Young Man with stigmata from 2023 which clearly shows her Renaissance painting influences (look at that hand!). This is Interview with the Vampire fanart of Armand, I think.
mific: (A pen and ink)
mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] drawesome2025-11-11 11:08 pm

Fanartist rec: alby_mangroves

Fanartist's name: alby_mangroves
Content Notes: some works are explicit, esp. those on AO3
Medium: traditional art - drawing
Artist on DW: [personal profile] alby_mangroves
Artist's main websites: Alby as artgroves on tumblr, alby_mangroves on AO3
About this artist: Alby is an Australian-based artist who does traditional art - drawings, often in graphite/pencil/ink, and sometimes in coloured pastels. Alby's style lately is usually monochrome, sometimes posted with a sepia tint - it's very vivid and three-dimensional, and I love the use of shading and cross-hatching to convey depth. Alby posts largely to tumblr and AO3 these days, and often does collaborations with writers in Big Bang-type challenges. Works are in many fandoms, with the MCU being a favourite, often featuring Steve/Bucky.

Example: An earlier work in pen & ink and brush, with effective use of a little colour.
He Looked Right At Me

Example: An example of Alby's coloured pastel work - MCU bros.
Sons of Ipswich

Example: Several gorgeously detailed illustrations (some NSFW) for a Russian folklore AU (MCU).
Hunger of the Pine

Example: Sketches from the show "The Last of Us".
The Sketches of Us