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4 years ago
I love inspiration, if not for it, we as artists would not be able to grow and discover new ways to express how we feel and create amazing pieces, most of the greatest paintings, drawings, animations etc. have been created or was inspired by something, so let me ask you this...is inspiration bad?
iv had a few people message me, telling me of how they were concerned over people who have "ripped-off" or "stolen" my characters designs.
there is nothing wrong with being inspired by others, wither it be a species, story, animation, color, anything, I hear a lot art about drama and it involving someone "stealing" someone's
character, and often times the two designs in question are completely different or share some small similarities, but still are different, the only time I feel the need to step in if it involves my work is if the design in question is a complete copy of my character // Claiming my character // rp as my character // or trying to resell my work as their own...
I will admit I use to not think like this, I use to be very scared of others stealing my stuff i was a very paranoid person when it came to it, I had this drive to be different, to be unique but I opened my mind and realized the way I was thinking was doing nothing but making me toxic and stressing me out to no end, having been diagnosed with diabetes this is not good for me since it can raise my blood sugar and blood pressure and it is bad enough I have been struggling to maintain it since I am still a bit new to it...so why waist my time stressing over someone who was just inspired by my work and my species...?
whenever I do see people make stuff inspired by my work, it brings me great joy and happiness, it lets me not only know I am making things people enjoy, but I get to see how creative other artists are, I only have one goal as an artist...to spread positivity and creativity to my fellow artists...I don't want anyone to be afraid of being inspired by me, my artwork, or my species, I want you to be inspired!! never ever think that I will get upset at you just because you were inspired by something I did.
art is the last form of magic that exist, if you are an artist who gets uncomfortable with others being inspired by others or you or makes something inspired by your work...don't belittle them, don't witch hunt them....give them the praise they deserve, give them the things they need to grow and get better, we are suppose to help one another...not hurt one another...if people continue to attack others for being inspired by others, then we are literally limiting people's creativity and denying them the freedom to be themselves and create wonderful things.
iv had a few people message me, telling me of how they were concerned over people who have "ripped-off" or "stolen" my characters designs.
there is nothing wrong with being inspired by others, wither it be a species, story, animation, color, anything, I hear a lot art about drama and it involving someone "stealing" someone's
character, and often times the two designs in question are completely different or share some small similarities, but still are different, the only time I feel the need to step in if it involves my work is if the design in question is a complete copy of my character // Claiming my character // rp as my character // or trying to resell my work as their own...
I will admit I use to not think like this, I use to be very scared of others stealing my stuff i was a very paranoid person when it came to it, I had this drive to be different, to be unique but I opened my mind and realized the way I was thinking was doing nothing but making me toxic and stressing me out to no end, having been diagnosed with diabetes this is not good for me since it can raise my blood sugar and blood pressure and it is bad enough I have been struggling to maintain it since I am still a bit new to it...so why waist my time stressing over someone who was just inspired by my work and my species...?
whenever I do see people make stuff inspired by my work, it brings me great joy and happiness, it lets me not only know I am making things people enjoy, but I get to see how creative other artists are, I only have one goal as an artist...to spread positivity and creativity to my fellow artists...I don't want anyone to be afraid of being inspired by me, my artwork, or my species, I want you to be inspired!! never ever think that I will get upset at you just because you were inspired by something I did.
art is the last form of magic that exist, if you are an artist who gets uncomfortable with others being inspired by others or you or makes something inspired by your work...don't belittle them, don't witch hunt them....give them the praise they deserve, give them the things they need to grow and get better, we are suppose to help one another...not hurt one another...if people continue to attack others for being inspired by others, then we are literally limiting people's creativity and denying them the freedom to be themselves and create wonderful things.
I'm one of those lucky few who throughout their 8ish years there has never met anybody QUITE like them aesthetically to the point it was actually quite lonely until I started seeing more and more lynx avatars around, but even then I've come to the understanding that most people who main or largely use lynx characters often have similar interests so there's bound to be someone somewhere close enough to me. Meanwhile a lover of mine and a few friends I've had are somewhat obsessed with trying to be as unique as is possible while being them, and I've had to explain to them that it's quite frankly impossible to be 100% unique in SL between the population, player market and trends.
In all honesty... I figuratively drool on how good are your SL pics xD