Hey dude, just wanted to say.

Ideas are fine and ideas are fun. Some of the ideas you had up here could've been fun. However, you gotta understand you can't just take other people's characters outright and stick them in there. For one, the other person might not be into your idea whatsoever. For two, using their artwork is gonna get your stuff removed, as the other person is going to see it as you taking their character for your own ideas, even if you mean it just as a markup of an idea. Also, it's not "fair use" to just take someone else's work and photoshop it into something else. That's not parody, like, at all, that's just repurposing someone else's characters for your own ideas, and people don't like their characters being taken like that.

In the future, I'd suggest exploring your ideas with your own original characters. You can certainly use other people's stuff as inspiration, but don't take their direct likeness. That's what I was gonna say to you before everything got removed and everybody came after you, haha

Also I second what solidscale said a few journals back, give that comment a read if you haven't already.

Solidscales comment was VERY on point , i agree

Okay, I just found this and thought little of it at first, but after reading the titles of the other journals, everything's instantly being pieced together.

Jeschke put it quite well, I think. And if you would like, I have a couple characters I made that I don't really use anymore, I could let you have one or two to use in your ideas. Send me a note if you're interested.

You should take the posts off of your Instagram as well. Make sure to ask permission in the future and be willing to accept that not everybody is going to say yes.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I think I found a path that I must ask in the future, just got this high to create.

Thanks all to the suggestions, I will forgive all in the future.

You're doing the right thing and showing that respect for artists and their characters that you've claimed to have.

Jeschke made a good point, one I forgot to include in earlier comments. A good idea would be to focus on your own characters, lore, etc, and build up something other people can be interested in. This can still include characters you don't own (with the owner's consent/permission, of course) but by building up something interesting, well developed and unique you may very well have an audience of your own.

Thank you for coming to this understanding and taking away what was said as intended. On behalf of everyone who has commented to you in regards to your prior work and usage of characters, thank you for understanding where we're coming from and thank you for removing all the artwork that included characters you didn't own or have permission to use.


Also, at the very bottom right of comments, there's a reply button. Click that button to reply directly to a comment. People do not get notifications on journals/submissions they did not create unless you use the reply button to reply directly.

Glad you saw reason and took things down. I can get wanting to create something based on what others have made; making your own lore and telling your own story is very hard work. Don't be afraid to take on that work though, as there is plenty that you can create all on your own if you really put your mind to it. Doing that not only prevents this from happening again, but it also creates a following around the things that YOU have made, not the things that others have spent years (or 2 decades... I'm old!) building up. So plug away at your idea. Make your own characters. And if you ask, I'm sure there are plenty in this community that would be willing to help you when you get stuck or need help with an idea to really jumpstart it. I know from personal experience that I use others to bounce ideas off of all the time; and vice versa. So don't be afraid to do that, and use your own work as the groundwork for something that others want to get in on, not that they are brought in on without their permission, or knowledge for that matter. But keep on creating for sure!

That's nice. See these?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfGiNhdhRp_/

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt7NZwXhAv8/

Take them down by today or I'm reporting your Instagram too.

Sorry, thought it will be funny .

I do hope that this is a learning experiance for you, and that you take some positive things from it. The community at large here is happy to be helpful and supportive to people, and mistakes CAN genuinely be made, however, you must learn from it, and most certainly remove any content you may have posted where you have used other peoples characters without their permission, and ENSURE that in future, for ANY endeavour you wish to undertake that you DO NOT use people's OC unless you have their explicit permission first. Not just "oh I think they might be ok with it" or "oh they did this in the past with others so therefore I can do this too". no. You expressly need to approach them, and get an affirmation from them that it is ok. you may even find that people are willing to work with you, if they have the control to choose HOW their character is depicted