Art theft [mini rant with questions]

[SetsunaKou]

I put pictures of my custom Monsters up there and don't give a crap, they're also on my blog and here. If there's a zillion Ice Princess reroots then there are. I also post pics of my sketches and doodles, one made the front page of Derp.com with one of my screen names. As I said you can spot my stuff a mile away and someone would be hard pressed to do a forgery.

Back in the old timey days artists learned by making copies of Old Masters and anything else they admired but most never passed the copies off as originals. It's integrity that has been lost to society and to heck with occupying things, todays kids need to be better people.

Bravo, DollyKim-san!!!! You are absolutely right!!! I concur wholeheartedly! 'Kids these days', ne? ^^

For artwork I've drawn/created, I go ahead and just take the view that I'm honored that someone liked my work enough to want to use it. (Though I can't understand AT ALL why they would even want to do that if they really didn't make the item/art themselves. Where's their pride and integrity in their own work? ^^;; I could never even think of doing such a thing!!!! And what happens when they get a request for a picture or something similar? Then they're stuck! ^^;;)

I just get anxious when it's my own or my sister's photos/person/face used! ^^

[DollyKim]

They believe in results and status and bullcrap instead of hard work. Must have to do with the trolls who bitch about stuff other people have made, I tend to think they've never had the joy and satisfaction of a job well done. Or they're just that lazy.

[famedglory]

I tend to think they've never had the joy and satisfaction of a job well done.

That. Right there. They don't get it because they've never actually felt the accomplishment that goes along with doing something well. I think it's sad but if someone tries to pass something I made off as their own I would totally do my best to correct the situation. That's a small part of why I always take WIP shots.

And as far as copying something for the sake of learning. If there's a style I like, specifically with manga or other comics, I'll practice recreating my favorite images so that I can learn how to do something similar and develop it into my own thing. But those learning copies never leave my personal sketchbook and if they somehow did I would be totally honest about what it was and who the actual(re original) artist for it was.