Well, in response to some pictures that were seen on the net:
Where is the border when a copied picture is original again?
I noticed a really similiar part in some avatars..similiar enough to almost say it's almost tracing in some bits.
I'd like to ask the community, is that okay for our avatars, or is it not? If you scroll down you'll see some rough overlaps done by me..which are close to be identical in some parts, and the two original pictures. One was from a cool blog, and one is actually the Venus painted by Boticelli.
(blog:http://madaunt.blogspot.com/)
(Venus di Milo (might be known differntly..by Boticelli): A very famous classical picture)
I agree that artists get influenced. They train using certain pictures. But is that really original?
Also, please take a look at this:
http://marvel.com/universe/Absorbing_Man
There's another avatar uploaded that looks...similiar.
If you haven't noticed, the artworks are all by Sir Kamil. From the way he commented in his other thread, I understood it that he fully claims that his pictures are all fully original, and not stolen from anywhere. To me this isn't acceptable, what are your thoughts?
[quote name='Muratus del Mur' date='04 October 2009 - 12:44 PM' timestamp='1254653055' post='43664']
Ok, i just received an other info of an existing (already uploaded) avy being an exact match with an other picture from the web. I am so so sorry that i have to work sometimes with this kind of (crap) artists. Unfortunately i can't check all the drawings for avies myself. Now I am even more angry on the "artisans guild". I assure you that from now on i will pay much more attention to all suspect drawings and not allow representations of known characters anymore, regardless if they are copied or not.
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[quote name='Muratus del Mur' date='07 October 2009 - 01:49 AM' timestamp='1254872984' post='43872']
An other thing, for ALL artists reading this. When you copy a character, do you have to copy it in the exact same positio as you find an image on the net? Are you not capable or creative enough to change something about it, or is it so much easyer to be a human scaner?
From now on i will not accept art that represents known characters anyway.
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