I'm not sure if many of you have noticed, but lately I've seen a few instances where people have been heavily referencing my work without giving me credit to the original work both here and on dA (not gonna name names though, and I wanna say something now before it gets too out of hand). And honestly, I'm not cool with that. Yes, people can see a picture of mine and be inspired by it. Sure, people can even heavily reference a picture of mine. Hell, people can basically redraw the whole damn picture I've made if they wanted to. But give me credit for the original work. Don't pass it off as your own, then take in all the compliments like you were the only one that had to do with that picture. Sure, it isn't as bad as tracing something of mine and passing it off as your own. But I spent time and put work into those pictures. Then someone just comes along, changes a few things, and "it's theirs". I've not only seen it happen to my work, but plenty of other's as well. It's not fair to the original artist. The least you can do is mention the original artist's name in the description. You don't have to be like "THIS IS AAAALL BECAUSE OF THIS WONDERFUL PERSON'S ARTZ", but some sort of recognition to the original artist is enough (unless of course said artist wants nothing to do with any referencing of their work). PLEASE GIVE THE PROPER CREDIT. And if you see someone post something that looks heavily referenced, traced, or stolen from another artist, SPEAK UP. Leave a comment telling them to credit the original artist, and take it from there. Now I'm not saying to go and attack the person and call them out on anything, but let them realize that... yeah... it's not really cool to rip off of another artist like that.
That's all I have to say on the matter right now. I hope you took the time to read this and that if you see this happening, just speak up (but respectfully). Thank you. |
