So far, the research element of my art project is coming along okay, I do expect it to take me a while on the actual art part, so please be patient with me. I also remembered the dragon picture I'm working on too, so I've got six art projects on my plate right now, I'm putting mine on the back burner for every one else's though, so don't worry.
I took a while to get this up because I had to be sure the servers were running at full capacity again. Sorry it took me so long.
Comments:
Outlaw Melfina:
Well, my "Random Fact" was about my being right when a state job agency is wrong. My intuition tells me not to put an objective on my résumé, and that gut feeling is backed by Universities, and professional résumé builders who say if you can't be specific about the job your are applying for, do
NOT put an objective on your résumé. No one at that job agency is looking at my situation objectively, I have no specific job criteria, I'm just looking for whatever employer is fool enough to take the risk and hire me, I don't really care what it's doing.
I've never heard of an animé convention occurring in West Virginia, and the nearest ones to me are in Columbus Ohio, a roughly two to three hour drive away. Since I don't drive myself, and no one in my family can afford the run, I don't get to go.
Caprice
If you want to get really technical, yes, hand copying screenshots and posting them online is plagiarism, according to Title 17 of US Code. They are copies of someone else's work without his or her permission to make them, that is plagiarism by definition. Parody works, which wouldn't be duplicates of screenshots, scenes, or whatever, are exempted from copyright protections.
I use references and screenshots in a lot of my "existing animé" artwork too, it's the only way to get a character right sometimes. You and I as individuals understand that fact, and I'm not arguing with you about it. I'm just saving my own skin from a headache or two down the road when someone makes a challenge to fan art art done completely that way being posted here, and you can bet it will happen. One of those people who gets rejected will challenge the screenshot copies being posted without question.
A Fan Art club sounds like a good idea actually, I'd join up in heartbeat. Also, MyOtaku really needs to make more use of the "Random Fan Art" feature that's in the sidebar on the fan art pages, that would help some too. Putting that link up in more places, and encouraging people to use it would generate more traffic for the lesser active artists, and those who have the potential to go far. I think I'll start clicking that link (if it's still there) every time I log on here, just to see a wider perspective of artists that are on site.
Sesshomarufan
As I said to Caprice above, technically, it is plagiarism to duplicate another person's work without permission and post it publicly. So long as it's not viewable to the general public, it's all right to do it I guess. I'm not going to continue arguing about this thing anymore with anyone, I'm tired of it. I made the choice to pull my screenshot copies, and felt terribly doing it, you have no idea. I don't need to feel any worse by having my judgement in the matter questioned. I read through Title 17 of US Code, not once, not twice, not even tree times, but probably seven total times last year alone for various projects I was working, I know what it says, and I know there are gray areas in the law concering these things. I chose to err on the side of caution. Let me suffer those slings and arrows without anyone rubbing salt in the wounds, please?
I will still use references for my art, especially regarding characters from animé I haven't seen, but it'll be less likely that someone would be able to make a straight correlation between "imageXXXX on inserturlhere.com" and my pictures. I think by getting away from straight screenshot copies, I will be expanding my ability to draw existing animé characters in out of context ways, which is what I want to be able to do. That's truly what fan art is about, drawing your favorite character in new and different ways, stuff that might not fit within the confines of the animé program.
Random Fact About Me:
"First of all I would like to make one thing perfectly clear. . .I never explain anything." That's how I respond to a question I'm not going to answer, it's from the Disney movie
Mary Poppins. Otherwise, I quote Shakespeare to explain things in ways most people wouldn't understand anyway.
Anime Dreams
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin), for Caprice
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