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A decision
7 years ago
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For a year and a half I've been attending to anime, comic and videogame conventions as an artist. It's always been really great, allowed me to meet plenty of passionate people both among other artists and visitors, from cosplay to fursuits, from plush makers to videogame makers, from writers to painters and tattoo designers.
I bought a button machine, and I've been crafting buttons and magnets almost on a daily basis since then. I recently celebrated my 1000th sold button.
For conventions, and also because I love them, I had decided to create a fanart collection made of videogame characters coming from various universe, but especially from games one cannot see everyday in conventions. It was actually pretty well received among visitors, since they were often happy to see that someone had finally drawn the character they wanted, or better, parents would recognize the older characters and their kids would recognize the newer ones
Except.. more and more, this fanart collection has been a source of problems for me, as my applications to several cons were rejected, because of this. I am not writing this journal to discuss about the legal aspects of drawing copyrighted characters and selling counterfeit goodies. The fact is that I don't want to have problems ever with companies that put counterfeit products and fanart in the exact same bag. So, from now on, I will strongly reduce the amount of fanarts I produce, and will favour more fantasy/steampunk/science/furry themes for goodies.
What does it change for you, fellow FA user? Not much, as I will still draw TFs and portraits. Except you can expect to see more custom things and no more fanarts. Or very little..
It does change a lot of things about who my main sona is. For many years, I've been toying with my Turian Velik. But the whole evolution of how fanart is perceived and copyrights eventually made me feel a bit more distant with this character. From now on, it's my Kobold who will become my main sona, and that's not a hastily taken decision. I created him 2 years ago. He's an alchemist, part of a personal fantasy/steampunk universe, and he's taken part in many TFs already. I feel connected to this little blue guy in many ways, and I think I've finally found my definitive sona.
Thank you for reading and have a nice day ^.^
In short:
- My kobold is now my main sona
- Expect more custom art and goodies in the near future focused on Fantasy/Steampunk/Alchemistry and TF
- Less fanarts
- More secret raffles in my long journals so I can receive some lovely hate messages when I do them
I bought a button machine, and I've been crafting buttons and magnets almost on a daily basis since then. I recently celebrated my 1000th sold button.
For conventions, and also because I love them, I had decided to create a fanart collection made of videogame characters coming from various universe, but especially from games one cannot see everyday in conventions. It was actually pretty well received among visitors, since they were often happy to see that someone had finally drawn the character they wanted, or better, parents would recognize the older characters and their kids would recognize the newer ones
Except.. more and more, this fanart collection has been a source of problems for me, as my applications to several cons were rejected, because of this. I am not writing this journal to discuss about the legal aspects of drawing copyrighted characters and selling counterfeit goodies. The fact is that I don't want to have problems ever with companies that put counterfeit products and fanart in the exact same bag. So, from now on, I will strongly reduce the amount of fanarts I produce, and will favour more fantasy/steampunk/science/furry themes for goodies.
What does it change for you, fellow FA user? Not much, as I will still draw TFs and portraits. Except you can expect to see more custom things and no more fanarts. Or very little..
It does change a lot of things about who my main sona is. For many years, I've been toying with my Turian Velik. But the whole evolution of how fanart is perceived and copyrights eventually made me feel a bit more distant with this character. From now on, it's my Kobold who will become my main sona, and that's not a hastily taken decision. I created him 2 years ago. He's an alchemist, part of a personal fantasy/steampunk universe, and he's taken part in many TFs already. I feel connected to this little blue guy in many ways, and I think I've finally found my definitive sona.
Thank you for reading and have a nice day ^.^
In short:
- My kobold is now my main sona
- Expect more custom art and goodies in the near future focused on Fantasy/Steampunk/Alchemistry and TF
- Less fanarts
- More secret raffles in my long journals so I can receive some lovely hate messages when I do them
And yes I'm liking my kobold a lot!
A question: will this reduce your TF work involving those characters as well? Or just plain fanart?
Sorry you've been put in this situation, that's sucks.
And you make an adorable Kobold! Tho I might be biased >.> lol
Genre US c'est autorisé, France pas trop mais ça peut si c'est pas de la "contrefaçon" mais, justement comment prouver que c'est aps de la contrefaçon mais une vision d'un artiste. Chaud chaud quoi.
Alors passer du temps à faire des illustrations pour au final risquer de me faire rembarrer pour non originalité ou pire, contrefaçon, ça fait beaucoup de raisons de ne pas insister (surtout pour les licences connues..)
Donc voilà, c'est à la fois une bonne et une mauvaise chose. Une bonne excuse pour faire des trucs bien personnels pour développer mon univers et des trucs amusants mêlant alchimie et fantasy ^^
Welcome to Kobold-dom!
Because that sounds like an Arabians night kobold adventure right there
But good on you for making a decision
I do look forward to the custom arts popping up, and the raffles too ^^
Also kobolds are amazing. :3
Grats on taking the kobold plunge!
Still sad to hear that things went that way, because of copyright laws and all, that you cannot draw the characters you enjoy.