Learning from mistakes
Everyone had made mistakes in life.
We will learn from them and correct ourselves, to make us a better person.
But if everyone knows you, the mistakes you made in the past, will still be mentioned by them for a long time.
People will judge you by those old mistakes, even you already learned and will never do that again.
That's really annoying, that's what happened on me lately....
Being an artist for many years, I always try my best to make my arts creative.
However I did use references on a few of my old arts.
I imitated some artists' style for learning skill and see how well I can do.
Some people commissioned me, asked me to draw the same pose as the ref arts they showed me, then I accepted and did the same.
But I always gave credit when I publish these arts.
I think that is ok if I give credit.
But I don't know why, some arts that I DIDN'T PUBLISH, bring me the troubles.
Some furry fans in Taiwan got one or two my arts, which is me drawing the same pose from other's arts or imitating other artists' style.
But those are not published ones, I don't know how they got them.
So, they are talking about this thing on the net, showing people I'm not a respectable artist.
Since most Taiwan furry fans knows me,
and I've found some art thieves in Taiwan furry fandom,
I also teach or give advice to people who is learning drawing,
I even wrote a quite long post to teach people how to discuss and publish arts in a good way in a forum, how important the copyright is, how to differentiate the copyright issues.
So, they think this thing is quite lashing what I done above.
I admit I shouldn't do something in the past, like drawing the same pose/design by the commissioner's asking.
But I already done, so I don't want to explain why I did them.
The point is, those arts are way loooooooooong ago, maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
I know something is not appropriate for a professional artist, so I didn't do that again in the nearly years.
I just feel a little upset that people still dig them up and talking about me.
Oh, and the funny part is, they only talking about the arts that I didn't publish, I have more published arts with credit added, but they didn't mention them.
Well, I guess it's a drama in Taiwan fandom, I just be involved even I try hard to being a better artist/person during these years.
Now I can totally understand how it feel when someone wants to start with a clean slate but people still loves to keep talking about his past...
Oh, yeah, by the way, to avoid these copyright issues happen again,
I decide when I reopen the commission, I will only take what the details interest me.
If the commissioner ask me to draw the same pose/bg like another art, or copyright characters, I may reject it.
Unless they have important or good reasons.
We will learn from them and correct ourselves, to make us a better person.
But if everyone knows you, the mistakes you made in the past, will still be mentioned by them for a long time.
People will judge you by those old mistakes, even you already learned and will never do that again.
That's really annoying, that's what happened on me lately....
Being an artist for many years, I always try my best to make my arts creative.
However I did use references on a few of my old arts.
I imitated some artists' style for learning skill and see how well I can do.
Some people commissioned me, asked me to draw the same pose as the ref arts they showed me, then I accepted and did the same.
But I always gave credit when I publish these arts.
I think that is ok if I give credit.
But I don't know why, some arts that I DIDN'T PUBLISH, bring me the troubles.
Some furry fans in Taiwan got one or two my arts, which is me drawing the same pose from other's arts or imitating other artists' style.
But those are not published ones, I don't know how they got them.
So, they are talking about this thing on the net, showing people I'm not a respectable artist.
Since most Taiwan furry fans knows me,
and I've found some art thieves in Taiwan furry fandom,
I also teach or give advice to people who is learning drawing,
I even wrote a quite long post to teach people how to discuss and publish arts in a good way in a forum, how important the copyright is, how to differentiate the copyright issues.
So, they think this thing is quite lashing what I done above.
I admit I shouldn't do something in the past, like drawing the same pose/design by the commissioner's asking.
But I already done, so I don't want to explain why I did them.
The point is, those arts are way loooooooooong ago, maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
I know something is not appropriate for a professional artist, so I didn't do that again in the nearly years.
I just feel a little upset that people still dig them up and talking about me.
Oh, and the funny part is, they only talking about the arts that I didn't publish, I have more published arts with credit added, but they didn't mention them.
Well, I guess it's a drama in Taiwan fandom, I just be involved even I try hard to being a better artist/person during these years.
Now I can totally understand how it feel when someone wants to start with a clean slate but people still loves to keep talking about his past...
Oh, yeah, by the way, to avoid these copyright issues happen again,
I decide when I reopen the commission, I will only take what the details interest me.
If the commissioner ask me to draw the same pose/bg like another art, or copyright characters, I may reject it.
Unless they have important or good reasons.