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So here's an interesting question for you all- if one is drawing *literary* characters, who have no given character design, is one still drawing fanart? As an illustrator, I'd say no. But if, as is always going to be the case with what I put up here a devart, no one is *paying* me to create renditions of their characters... well, what does that make an original character design for a pre-existing character?

...anyways, that's hardly an issue here- just a general question of mine. In this case there have been too many visual representations of these characters for me to be able to claim that they are in any way my own, even if my conceptions concerning them are a little different from any that have come before.

The couple in question is Glinda (Galinda) and Elphaba (ne the Wicked Witch of the West) as they are described in the *book* Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch of the West... though I must admit that I didn't have a copy of the book on hand when I drew this. But there's a series of scenes at the end of the finishing school chronicles that gave me the distinct feeling that Elphie and Glinda were interested in each other, and quite probably not platonically. Their final scene together involves an ambiguously (to me, anyway) written kiss as Elphaba takes Glinda to the coach. It is the last time they see each other. Here's my slashtastic interpretation thereof.

Reading Wicked, one gets the sense that the clothing would either be highly plain and serviceable (think mormon) or maybe a turn of the century silk stocking affair, depending on the character. But that bored me and ran counter to everything I'd ever thought about Oz, reading the unillustrated paperback versions of the book as I did in my youth. So I went to town on the outfits. And sort of lost it.

I am not talking about the figures, because if I did I'd be forced to point out all the flaws and then you'd all see them too and hate me forever.

Full-View is your friend.

Elphie + Glinda copyright to Gregory Maguire.... sort of. Original characters twisted from the works of L. Frank Baum. Green-skinned renditions of the Wicked Witch began with Richard Thorp, I suppose. Green is totally just my other flesh tone, at this point.

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So here's an interesting question for you all- if one is drawing *literary* characters, who have no given character design, is one still drawing fanart? As an illustrator, I'd say no. But if, as is always going to be the case with what I put up here a devart, no one is *paying* me to create renditions of their characters... well, what does that make an original character design for a pre-existing character?

...anyways, that's hardly an issue here- just a general question of mine. In this case there have been too many visual representations of these characters for me to be able to claim that they are in any way my own, even if my conceptions concerning them are a little different from any that have come before.

The couple in question is Glinda (Galinda) and Elphaba (ne the Wicked Witch of the West) as they are described in the *book* Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch of the West... though I must admit that I didn't have a copy of the book on hand when I drew this. But there's a series of scenes at the end of the finishing school chronicles that gave me the distinct feeling that Elphie and Glinda were interested in each other, and quite probably not platonically. Their final scene together involves an ambiguously (to me, anyway) written kiss as Elphaba takes Glinda to the coach. It is the last time they see each other. Here's my slashtastic interpretation thereof.

Reading Wicked, one gets the sense that the clothing would either be highly plain and serviceable (think mormon) or maybe a turn of the century silk stocking affair, depending on the character. But that bored me and ran counter to everything I'd ever thought about Oz, reading the unillustrated paperback versions of the book as I did in my youth. So I went to town on the outfits. And sort of lost it.

I am not talking about the figures, because if I did I'd be forced to point out all the flaws and then you'd all see them too and hate me forever.

Full-View is your friend.

Elphie + Glinda copyright to Gregory Maguire.... sort of. Original characters twisted from the works of L. Frank Baum. Green-skinned renditions of the Wicked Witch began with Richard Thorp, I suppose. Green is totally just my other flesh tone, at this point.