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hdcup_mod (hdcup_mod) wrote in hd_worldcup,
@ 2008-04-12 14:29:00

Entry tags:

art, prompt: coins, r, round i, team epilogue

The Price of Fulfillment - Team Epilogue
Title: The Price of Fulfillment
Team: Team Epilogue! Whoo!
Artist: ships_harry
Prompt: Coins/Pentacles
Rating: R+
Warnings: Some sadism, some bondage, ambiguous infidelity. Dial-up users - 5 large images.
Summary: Harry needs something he can't get from Ginny. She sends him to a professional, but as time goes on, the line between business and personal begins to blur.
Artist's Note: HUGE thanks to my team-mates for help with prompts, positioning, content, and the title! In other words, just about everything :).

The Price of Fulfillment

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Poll #1389
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

1. Is the author/artist true to their team? Yes/No vote ("yes" is worth 2 points, "no" is worth 0)

2. How well did the author/artist use their Prompt? 1 to 9 (1 being the least)

3. How much did you like this story/art overall? 1 to 9 (1 being the least)

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greenjuly
2008-05-23 06:49 pm UTC (link)

Thank you so much! I'm completely thrilled to hear that a plot came through - there's always that struggle to try and convey a story without spelling everything out, y'know?
You're welcome! And yeah, I totally understand that difficulty. Not that I've ever done fan art, but in my own stuff.

I did have concerns about the font :). When picking a font, I usually end up cycling through between twenty or thirty different types, narrowing it down as I get an idea of what sort of feel I want. I kept coming back to this one. In this case, it was a conscious choice to go for the slightly unbalanced and chaotic look of this font over legibility, the unprettiness of it - it was more a visual thing than a content thing, if that makes sense?

For you, was the font intrusive in style, or was it more of a legibility issue?
It was stylistic for me. When you have art that's so strong, I would make the text a bit more neutral to balance it out. Also, because of the way the some letters are enlarged in the font, it conjured up unfortunate associations with people wHo TyPe lIkE tHiS online. Something a little ornate is probably good (I mean, certainly you don't want it in Arial or Verdana), but if you are going to go with a trendy-type font, I'd pick one without the differing letter sizes - I've seen ones that have a similar feel, but less random caps-ness.
I understand why you chose that, though, and it's not a big deal overall.

Thanks for replying to my comment!

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