different between fanwork vs fanart

English

Etymology

fan +? work

Noun

fanwork (countable and uncountable, plural fanworks)

1. (architecture) Fan tracery.
   • 1911, Maurice Hewlett, The Song of Renny, Charles Scribner's Son's (1911), page 389:

     The chapel — a soaring, slender-shafted building, with fanwork upon its roof and an apse deep and pointed — seemed full of light, withal it was hung with black velvet.

   • 2008, Geoffrey Ashe, King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury, Sutton Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 289:

     There were bits of a vaulted roof with panelled fanwork and moulded ribs, recalling the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster.

   • 2008, Leonard Ginsberg, Rhapsody on a Film by Kurosawa, Trafford Publishing (2008), ?ISBN, page 48:

     Now the Grand High Witch removes her mask and wig: A hideous beak and a decrepit bodice of skin and bones, like the stone ceiling fanwork in a Gothic chamber, her blotchy scalp a moonscape fermenting cobwebs.

2. A fan-shaped network of lines or projections.
   • 1999, Anne Marie Winston, Lovers' Reunion, Silhouette Books (1999), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.

   • 2006, Kage Baker, The Machine's Child, Tor (2007), ?ISBN, page 123:

     The bud vase lay on its side near the bush; a lacy fanwork of roots had spread out over the tabletop, following the path of the spilled water.

   • 2013, Leigh Evans, The Trouble with Fate, St. Martin's Press (2013), ?ISBN, page 222:

     He had three lines running across his forehead, and a fanwork of them radiating from the corner of each eye.

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3. A creative work produced by a fan, based on a book, movie, television show, musical group, etc.

   William saw Michaela's fanwork of Powerpuff Girls, her favorite TV show of all time.

   • 2008, Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ?ISBN, page 132:

     Fans often declare that they prefer fanon to what actually happens in canon and fanworks to the actual series, which is lackluster by comparison.

   • 2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), ?ISBN, page 159:

     The result is a proliferation of fanworks that explore narratives of transgression as fans play with the permissibility of Supernatural's supernatural world.

   • 2010, Fan-Yi Lam, "Comic Market: How the World's Biggest Amateur Comic Fair Shaped Japanese D?jinshi Culture", in Fanthropologies, Volume 5 (ed. Frenchy Lunning), University of Minnesota Press (2010), ?ISBN, page 239:

     Other factors contributing to the increased interest in d?jinshi and in fanworks were the development of fixed otaku landmarks and the spread of computers.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fanwork.

Hyponyms

• (creative work produced by a fan): fanart, fan fiction, fangame, fanvid

English

Alternative forms

• fan art

Etymology

fan +? art

Noun

fanart (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) Artwork created unofficially by fans of a book, film, etc., and based on it.
   • 2010, Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, Boys' Love Manga (page 16)

     Aarinfantasy's Web site offers several areas for fans to give back—whether this is sharing fanart in the Member's Gallery or offering support, discussion or interaction in the general forums.

Hypernyms

• fanwork

Related terms

• fangame
• fanvid