one of my ex artist friends from like junior high has started copying my art again...i'm not really sure how to express how i feel about this but i'll try.

she's a very good artist don't get me wrong, she watercolors wonderfully...but her subject matter....yeah....well most of it is fantasy stuff that was referenced on other work.

So i do this art noveau style of drawing hair. I don't claim that it's mine or anything i'm just saying i'm the only one in class that does it. I painted this picture of a blue skinned woman with rising wispy hair, that's colored in with purples and blues....3 days later, here she is drawing a woman with wispy rising hair and coloring it blue. She also used the salt technique she saw :keke-bell: using last year...again not saying that :keke-bell: owns the salt affect but she was one of the only students doing it at the time.

i'm kind of pissed but at the same time i'm flattered that my subject matter was interesting enough to want to copy. my teacher said "you're a trend setter if people are referencing your work". I'm kind of dissapointed in her...she's a great artist, can't she come up with her own material?

Maybe i shouldn't be talking, after all I am using a technique from Alphonse Mucha. Maybe she's just trying that style out, just like I'm trying the style out....that would make us one in the same.

anybody that's reading this, please let me know what you think. Am I right to be angry or am i just a big sack of BAAAAAAW