I generally don't do my own art. Most submissions you see in my gallery I paid someone else to draw. I may have "designed" my OCs myself, but someone else did the real work of putting them to (digital) paper.

I've always been careful and diligent about giving artist credit where credit is due, both in the title of the submission as well as its description, and linking back to the original artist's submission wherever such a link is possible, and I will continue to do so.

That's just being a good internet citizen.