About copyrights and "critics"
I was asked quite recently why I have grievances toward the Champions Online game. While there are several things that I don't like about it, the topmost on the list is copyright infringement.
I'm an artist. I draw and on occasion write, I have friends who are artists in several mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, photos, writing, etc) and I hold admiration for a vast number of people who have the honour of being able to do said art(s) as a means to support themselves.
Copyright infringement threatens that. It threatens the artist's ability to support themselves, it threatens their credibility, and it has a tendency to make a person feel extremely undervalued and Not Happy (tm) with things in general.
Think about it; while you're in school you're given the talk about plagerism. You don't go stealing other people's papers and pass them off as your own--you get caught rather quick these days and there are some places that will outright toss you out on your butt without a second thought.
So, in short, DON'T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK AND CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN.
Now, on the note of "critics". I've dealt with many of them, and in the end, I can't stand them. More often than not, I have found that those people have a particular view on the world and they won't allow anything else in it. There's a fair amount of difference between "I like what you've done there, although I feel that this bit here doesn't look quite right with the rest of the image" and "I think you need to redo this whole section because it looks like crap" (I have gotten both as responses before).
Constructive commentary is much nicer than people telling you everything you've done wrong with something. It's one thing to get "It Stinks!" from Furry, because I have a feeling that this is a seal of approval from him. It's another thing to get a comment like "why are you even continuing in art?" Such things are off-putting and I know that I'm not the only one who doesn't like that.
So, Canius had posted something to her DA journal about similar things and I felt that I should reply somewhere. This was as good a place as any.
I'm an artist. I draw and on occasion write, I have friends who are artists in several mediums (drawing, painting, sculpture, photos, writing, etc) and I hold admiration for a vast number of people who have the honour of being able to do said art(s) as a means to support themselves.
Copyright infringement threatens that. It threatens the artist's ability to support themselves, it threatens their credibility, and it has a tendency to make a person feel extremely undervalued and Not Happy (tm) with things in general.
Think about it; while you're in school you're given the talk about plagerism. You don't go stealing other people's papers and pass them off as your own--you get caught rather quick these days and there are some places that will outright toss you out on your butt without a second thought.
So, in short, DON'T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK AND CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN.
Now, on the note of "critics". I've dealt with many of them, and in the end, I can't stand them. More often than not, I have found that those people have a particular view on the world and they won't allow anything else in it. There's a fair amount of difference between "I like what you've done there, although I feel that this bit here doesn't look quite right with the rest of the image" and "I think you need to redo this whole section because it looks like crap" (I have gotten both as responses before).
Constructive commentary is much nicer than people telling you everything you've done wrong with something. It's one thing to get "It Stinks!" from Furry, because I have a feeling that this is a seal of approval from him. It's another thing to get a comment like "why are you even continuing in art?" Such things are off-putting and I know that I'm not the only one who doesn't like that.
So, Canius had posted something to her DA journal about similar things and I felt that I should reply somewhere. This was as good a place as any.