Sunday, September 23, 2007

   Thief! :o
Art theft strikes again -.- Haha, yes I'm always on the look out for possible thefts, but here's my most recent one, and the thief is unfortunately on theO :(
http://fanart.theotaku.com/view.php?action=retrieve&id=208613
http://lucrecia.deviantart.com/art/Howl-Jenkins-20273865
The first link is the stolen artwork, but now that I look at it closer it's actually been traced, but tracing is pretty much the same as stealing. I don't know how to put one picture on top of the other to line them up, but I think you can see just by looking at the two that it has obviously been traced, like the hand, face, etc. But there are other things that confuse me with this. It's like this person just rubbed out the coloring of the original and left the lineart in some cases. For example, if you view the stolen picture in high resolution, if you look at Howl's right arm (you'd view it from the left) then it kinda looks like the thief missed a small spot of the background while erasing it (there's a very fine line, it doesn't stand out that much so you'll have to look closely, but it's definately there.) So, I'm really not sure what exactly has happened with this, but whatever the case it's a stolen piece of artwork so please go report it.
I'm completely against copying fanart anyway. People don't seem to realise that there is a f*cking difference between copying and referencing. And I hate it anyway when I see a copied picture up on the featured part. But when someone traces/steals something then I really put my foot down. It's plagerism no matter how you look at it, and in a way copying fanart is plagerism too. Even if you give credit to the original it's really not acceptable. You at least need permission from the original. It's almost like people don't even care about how the first artist's feels about it and just care about their own benefits and advantages. Seriously people, can we PLEASE try to come up with our own ideas instead of relying on other peoples? I know not everyone copies pictures, and this isn't aimed at you good people. And that last speech isn't meant to harrass anyone. I'm just trying to express my own opinion and hope that people will start changing a little more.
Changing the subject, my mom amazingly let me buy 3 mangas today which I was incredibly pleased about X3 This isn't like her at all o_O She must've been in a really good mood today. One of them was Death Note, and it's so good! Really good plot to it. I can't wait to get the next volumes. Rozen Maiden and Loveless (yay shonen-ai!) were the other two, but I haven't started them yet.
Anyway, sorry if this post bored you stiff -_-;; Haven't had time to draw once again, I had a relative come down on friday and saturday too so that took up some time. And then I had all my homework to do today :D Fun stuff... not. I can't wait for a weekend where I don't have a lot to do. But that probably won't come for a while DX
But, it's almost 10.30pm here so I better go before my mom catches me.
Ciao~
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