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God F***ing Damnit - This is a Rant
16 years ago
Feel free to ignore it, I just need to vent.
HOW THE FFF IS IT ALWAYS GODDAMN COINCIDENCE WHEN SOMEBODY COMES UP WITH SOMETHING THAT MORE THAN JUST SUBTLETY REMINDS YOU OF SOMEONE ELSES WORK?
There, had to be done. Sorry. I had two people today pointing out two different artists that came up with characters similiar to some of my work. Strangely enough, no matter how often I come across this and ask (and i'm being nice, not OMG YOU RIPPED ME OFF), I always get the same answer: "I totally didn't notice when drawing it" or "OMG what a coincidence".
Am I buying that? By now I guess I'm paranoid enough that I have to say "No, the FFF I do".
I have Dest since 4 years now and he's been all over the net, FA, DA, SA, y!gal and not to mention half a million vore sites. I dare to say he's pretty well known and it really makes me sad to see obvious features of his just taken 1:1 and all I get is a speech of what a wondrous concidence it is. Or people just don't give a fuck.
I'm not the best artist, but I draw because I have fun. There's a lot of heart in my drawings, no matter how stupid, weird or gross they may be and it's a shame people have so little interest in the worries of an artist.
I'm not against people being inspired, that's entirely fine. Hell, even copying is fine as long as you give credit to the original piece. Everyone starts small and I do understand that tracing things or taking another artist as inspiration is part of the learning process. Still doesn't hurt to mention what inspired them instead getting snappy.
But it's the internet, right? It's who finds it, keeps it and if you upload something for free then it's your own fault if people run off with your concepts.
[Edit:] People keep bringing up this one http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3054876/, which has been more or less resolved before I broke out in this rant. I'm still not entirely happy about the similarties, but the artist linked my stuff so I'm not going to complain.
I've been linked this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3058635 over on Eka's with the note it looks fishy and even tho the colors are different, this demon called Destruction looks quite like my boy of the same name.
[Edit 2:] Seems the last link provided misteriously disappeared after the fella who linked me on Eka's poked the person about it.
HOW THE FFF IS IT ALWAYS GODDAMN COINCIDENCE WHEN SOMEBODY COMES UP WITH SOMETHING THAT MORE THAN JUST SUBTLETY REMINDS YOU OF SOMEONE ELSES WORK?
There, had to be done. Sorry. I had two people today pointing out two different artists that came up with characters similiar to some of my work. Strangely enough, no matter how often I come across this and ask (and i'm being nice, not OMG YOU RIPPED ME OFF), I always get the same answer: "I totally didn't notice when drawing it" or "OMG what a coincidence".
Am I buying that? By now I guess I'm paranoid enough that I have to say "No, the FFF I do".
I have Dest since 4 years now and he's been all over the net, FA, DA, SA, y!gal and not to mention half a million vore sites. I dare to say he's pretty well known and it really makes me sad to see obvious features of his just taken 1:1 and all I get is a speech of what a wondrous concidence it is. Or people just don't give a fuck.
I'm not the best artist, but I draw because I have fun. There's a lot of heart in my drawings, no matter how stupid, weird or gross they may be and it's a shame people have so little interest in the worries of an artist.
I'm not against people being inspired, that's entirely fine. Hell, even copying is fine as long as you give credit to the original piece. Everyone starts small and I do understand that tracing things or taking another artist as inspiration is part of the learning process. Still doesn't hurt to mention what inspired them instead getting snappy.
But it's the internet, right? It's who finds it, keeps it and if you upload something for free then it's your own fault if people run off with your concepts.
[Edit:] People keep bringing up this one http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3054876/, which has been more or less resolved before I broke out in this rant. I'm still not entirely happy about the similarties, but the artist linked my stuff so I'm not going to complain.
I've been linked this http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3058635 over on Eka's with the note it looks fishy and even tho the colors are different, this demon called Destruction looks quite like my boy of the same name.
[Edit 2:] Seems the last link provided misteriously disappeared after the fella who linked me on Eka's poked the person about it.
I don't want to start anything, but just linking for the sake of clarification..
The maw shot is the same as http://aryion.com/g3/showitem.php?id=153799
And the tentacle is a near-exact copy of http://aryion.com/g3/showitem.php?id=14244 , angle and all!
GAH! >:C
There's just...no comfortable way to get around it, is there?
*hugs*
I'm sorry that had to happen, I'm taking that image out of my favorites now.
I don't really comment to you too often but when I saw your artwork here I was very much impressed; so I really hate that happening to you.
I'm one of the last people to Call character rip off/theft, but this time around there's blatantly no 'coincidence' about it 9_9;
This, though... Egh. Yeah. There's no shame in admiting you were inspired by someone else. No one creates in a vacuum. Pretending otherwise is just ascinine.
Welcome to the global market! It sucks to face competition, but it would suck A LOT more if we didn't have it.
What other works does this person do? It's easier to prove theft if this person either makes a lot of 'questionably similar' works or if it goes against their normal pattern of creations.
the rest of her picture seems to be original pose and evreything name coloring species ect its not like she coppied dest and said . . .op heres my new char!
i mearly think that this idea was taken and integrated into her char and that the only thing that was done wrong was that she did not give credit where credit was due even when jiji asked about it.
BTW you are one of the best artists AROUND! i know people that would KILL to get something from you. hell my last art teacher gives your art work 125% and shes one of those "i give no one over 99 in my class" sourt of people
I guess in all the ranting that point got lost. As said, I am not against getting your inspiration from other artists (hell, -I- do get inspired by other people's stuff, too). And nothing wrong with using someone's work as reference. Even top artists use photo for their pictures.
Also, I can't think of any artist who didn't start by tracing and copying. It's how art goes and there's nothing wrong with that.
But dear lord, there is no reason to react the way a lot of people do when you point out what seems to be obvious similarities/influence. As Beachfox said, there is no shame in admitting someone's art inpired your own.
It's not the first time it happened and it won't be the last time, I'm perfectly aware of that. But every time, it's just the biggest coincidence in the world and that's what makes me so mad about it. Even if you don't recall the artist, one can still mention "that one pic they saw somewhere", it doesn't hurt anyone.
btw quite serious about the 125% my teacher loved your "Keep dreaming, little one" pic though i dont think she knew exactly what was going on >.>