Unfair
I posted a journal on "Artist beware" group yesterday,
talking about a person I know well in Taiwan, who keep copying other people's arts and photos for pose reference.
http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/496670.html
She is well know in Taiwan gruop because of her copy behavior.
And now she is taking commissions and trades, and seems no one noticed most of her arts are not her true skill.
Then after I read the replies in that post, most of people still think getting refs without permission and credit giving is not wrong.
So, all of the artists who don't use refs are stupids?
I try really hard to draw eveything on my own.
I don't use refs for most of my works during these years.
Because I've learned a lot, when people know me drawing something same as other arts/photos.
It may not really break copyrights, since pose can't be copyright.
But people won't trust me, won't respect my works. It is just like cheating, this work is not by my own.
I can't say it is all my hard works because I know I copy the pose from other things.
So I don't use refs, especially for pose, angle, anatomy and composition.
If commissioner ask me to draw something as same as the ref photos he gave, I will let people know.
I just don't want to cheat or lie.
But after knowing what people think about "copying pose", I feel really unfair and upset.
So they think professional artists using refs is very normal.
Then I think I should add "No any references used" in most of my works?
Maybe some people will think why should I care what she does?
Well, because I know her since she start to active on the net.
I did art trades with her, received her gifts, me and my other friends once were her friends long time ago.
Untill I found her copied other artists' arts.
I feel very disappointed, but I forgave her since everyone can make mistakes.
But after several months, we found her fursona design was copy from a DA artist's character.
We also found she is still copy pose from other famouse DA artist's arts.
So I decided to cut off with her, I start to doubt some of her great arts are still copy from something.
Then, when she started to active on DA and drawing her own comics,
Akreon (http://akreon.deviantart.com/) accused Aruku copy poses from her comics:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/jccat/copy-arts/ar2no.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/jccat/copy-arts/ar1o.jpg
So she still never learn..... of course after that, she deleted those comics.
But I just know too many of her arts are not her own drawing, since her anatomy skill is too poor.
Now, she got caught again, her last few Taiwan friends also feel disappointed and decided to leave her.
But she still thinking she is not wrong and keep asking art trades with other great artist at DA or FA.
I just hope no one will be cheated by her again.
But I nerver thought so many people thinking that isn't a big deal.
I gueass that's all I can do.
She is nothing to me but just a shame of Taiwan.
talking about a person I know well in Taiwan, who keep copying other people's arts and photos for pose reference.
http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/496670.html
She is well know in Taiwan gruop because of her copy behavior.
And now she is taking commissions and trades, and seems no one noticed most of her arts are not her true skill.
Then after I read the replies in that post, most of people still think getting refs without permission and credit giving is not wrong.
So, all of the artists who don't use refs are stupids?
I try really hard to draw eveything on my own.
I don't use refs for most of my works during these years.
Because I've learned a lot, when people know me drawing something same as other arts/photos.
It may not really break copyrights, since pose can't be copyright.
But people won't trust me, won't respect my works. It is just like cheating, this work is not by my own.
I can't say it is all my hard works because I know I copy the pose from other things.
So I don't use refs, especially for pose, angle, anatomy and composition.
If commissioner ask me to draw something as same as the ref photos he gave, I will let people know.
I just don't want to cheat or lie.
But after knowing what people think about "copying pose", I feel really unfair and upset.
So they think professional artists using refs is very normal.
Then I think I should add "No any references used" in most of my works?
Maybe some people will think why should I care what she does?
Well, because I know her since she start to active on the net.
I did art trades with her, received her gifts, me and my other friends once were her friends long time ago.
Untill I found her copied other artists' arts.
I feel very disappointed, but I forgave her since everyone can make mistakes.
But after several months, we found her fursona design was copy from a DA artist's character.
We also found she is still copy pose from other famouse DA artist's arts.
So I decided to cut off with her, I start to doubt some of her great arts are still copy from something.
Then, when she started to active on DA and drawing her own comics,
Akreon (http://akreon.deviantart.com/) accused Aruku copy poses from her comics:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/jccat/copy-arts/ar2no.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/jccat/copy-arts/ar1o.jpg
So she still never learn..... of course after that, she deleted those comics.
But I just know too many of her arts are not her own drawing, since her anatomy skill is too poor.
Now, she got caught again, her last few Taiwan friends also feel disappointed and decided to leave her.
But she still thinking she is not wrong and keep asking art trades with other great artist at DA or FA.
I just hope no one will be cheated by her again.
But I nerver thought so many people thinking that isn't a big deal.
I gueass that's all I can do.
She is nothing to me but just a shame of Taiwan.