I've heard a lot about people in the art theft and tracing in the past but it's been a biigggg thing to do as of last I've seen people seem to be stealing art left and right from the well known to unknown!(I dont mean that in a bad way at all.)
Well its bugging me now because I've been seeing it in my school and now I just discovered a picture on a pamhlet for an art program I really want to join. ITS A STOLEN IMAGE!!!!
[link] LOOK! (the one on the left....) If you don't think this is a copy I'll tell you this; The arms, postion even the hair on the boy is the same. Ears too and best of all? If you could see the girls socks on the left image (sorry taken with computer's video camera) the socks are the exact same in pattern!
Is THIS what they want to teach us at any art school? I damn sure hope not! D:<
Well I can understand if the teacher didn't notice this was taken. I mean I've had this pamphlet since the middle of the school year and just discovered this rather annoying truth.
I'm not saying I've never traced;
but I never submitted an image I TRACED, TO THIS SITE! NEVER IT sits in an old box I never even open unless I find old art I dont use.
I stopped tracing completly about three years ago. I don't even do it for 'fun'.
I'm not saying I never eyeballed an image!
I learn from it and you can see, some of the things in my scraps? Eyeballed images of characters. I won't lie to the people who read this. I have traced I have eyeballed
I dont anymore though because those were like training wheels to me.
I don't need em anymore. I can start learning without having to take another's image. I would never submit art to a contest, any kind of contest. If I had stolen any artwork from another person.
When will the people who think its right of them to just take art learn?!
Give credit if you take a sprite base.
Give credit if its a recolor of a drawing.
Give credit if your going to just completly rip a person's art from them! Infact, dont give credit. Say you did that and dont flaunt your work like you made a big achivement! You stole! Thats WRONG!
Anyone who hates all that I've been writting should know this; What if something you took an hour even half a day to complete was just copyed and recolored by some 15 year old kid who wants to draw so bad but they dont know the first idea of art; Stealing is a sin of art. (Thats what I think)
oh! I also hear people takeing quotes from others and even trying to steal other people's writting be it poetry or a story. Thats just redicilous. Thats not how true art is made. You just make lie upon lie. Its disturbing!!!
In gerneral all Im saying is; Stop taking other's art and flaunting it in a contest or claiming it was done all by yourself if you eyeballed.
Hate me or praise me I just wanted my opinion out...
~Ochibi
Ps; Has anyones Emoticon menu been out of whack? o_o