Artists and animators

This is something that's been on my mind for a while. I love artwork of fat women, and I love fanart of my favorite franchises, but I'm rarely fond of artwork depicting fat versions of my favorite characters. It's difficult for me to explain why, but I suppose it feels a bit... exploitative to reduce well-written, even complex, characters to fetish fuel. It certainly doesn't help that most of the time, these characters' circumstances make weight gain pretty unlikely. I find OCs are more interesting and lack these burdens, so I tend to enjoy them more.
I don't know, maybe my explanations on this are inadequate, but it's definitely a preference I have. I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts.

I feel the same. I think there are some characters and IPs that are basically considered some feedist/expansionist canon one way or another but something completely unrelated, I just can't do. It's easier for me to consume fanart if I am not already familiar with the source material.

I also loathe celebrity morphs for this reason. It just crosses a serious line for me.

I prefer OCs for weight gain art personally. What little art I do is always my characters.

Gimmie those OCs. Agree with what’s been said about characters already being connected to something else and this kink not being part of it.

Some artists do a really great job at creating their own universe of characters that interact with one another, all which feel like they belong there.

I love all art but honestly I really enjoy all the fanart I've received recently. Both of me as I am and me imagined larger. I also like seeing fanart of other people, the fantasy of what they could be or even just admiring the talent of the artist.

For fetish art I always prefer OC; established characters used for a fetish—esp those who are canonically minors—just feels creepy.

For non-fetish fat art, I appreciate both.

I do like seeing fan art of people who’ve consented to it tho (eg an artist’s take on a feedee/gainer at a larger size)

I would prefer the original characters over fan art because its simple no over work on the characters no other modification added, its perfect and has a great quality Concrete paving Iowa City Iowa

I prefer both, is there anyone that can make one for me to use for some stories

Usually OCs, unless I'm getting really strong feedee vibes off a character in a show. Of course, as someone with a lot of OCs myself, many of which have fun concepts and costumes, I'm always flattered when a reader wants to draw fan art of ~my~ OCs...but most of my OCs are either already fat, or they get fat by the end of the story, since I'm a feedism fetish writer.

Another one here to chime in with "OC." Sometimes I wish I could do "fan art" because so many people do seem to like (whether they're fattened versions or not) but I guess for me there really is no well-known franchise or series that I'm such a big fan of that I'd want to spend anytime recreating the characters. I'm for more interested in developing my own characters, especially since I'm a writer as well as an artist/illustrator.