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I have been a deviant artist for five years now, it that time my art has improved a lot, but deviant art itself seems to have gone further and further down hill.
Two years ago it became perfectly ok to upload traces and manga scans.
Now I know some of you are fine with tracing, some of you do great things with traces and so long as the person whose art you traced is ok with it then it's not that big of a deal (though in my opinion you will never learn anything from tracing and your art will never improve from just drawing over the top of someone elses), but how exactly is scaning manga an art?
Today it has been decided that traces and "dolls" (traced bases made from drawing over the top of anime and manga scans, screencaps and art, often without the permission of the artist and distributed for anybody to use) shall now have their own sections and that it is now fine to trace without asking permission of the original artist.
I cannot and will not support art theft, which is why I have decided to no longer upload to deviant art.
Furthermore if, within seven days I am still as angered as I am now I will start removing the art I currently have uploaded (leaving anything that is currently in a contest).
At this time I have no plans to actually leave deviant art, I have a lot of friends on here and plan on continuing to follow their art.
Sigss xxx
Two years ago it became perfectly ok to upload traces and manga scans.
Now I know some of you are fine with tracing, some of you do great things with traces and so long as the person whose art you traced is ok with it then it's not that big of a deal (though in my opinion you will never learn anything from tracing and your art will never improve from just drawing over the top of someone elses), but how exactly is scaning manga an art?
Today it has been decided that traces and "dolls" (traced bases made from drawing over the top of anime and manga scans, screencaps and art, often without the permission of the artist and distributed for anybody to use) shall now have their own sections and that it is now fine to trace without asking permission of the original artist.
I cannot and will not support art theft, which is why I have decided to no longer upload to deviant art.
Furthermore if, within seven days I am still as angered as I am now I will start removing the art I currently have uploaded (leaving anything that is currently in a contest).
At this time I have no plans to actually leave deviant art, I have a lot of friends on here and plan on continuing to follow their art.
Sigss xxx
Maaaaaaaaaan it has been a while
I haven't even logged in for so long... I wonder if there's anybody even still here from last time? Things got weird, really weird. I stopped logging in for a really long time because of some really petty drama, I don't really want to rehash that yet again but TL;dr turned out someone I thought I knew really well, guess I did not took out what I have come to realise was some pain she was going through on me. I could and should have handled the whole thing better too, but I guess that is how it is sometimes, I don't hold a grudge any more I just hope she's doing better, I know I am. But yeah there have been great upheavals, it's funny that my last journal entry from 2010 talked about how my style had changed, and now I log in in 2022 and YIKES hahahaha! I'm no longer at uni, I went through a fairly long period of feeling like I wasn't doing anything creative because I ended up doing work that wasn't directly tied to my degree. It was weird because I've been using skills I learned on
And now onto some happier news
Everybody should go check out the fabulous chibi Bloodmyer did of me, while you're there check out the rest of her gallery :D
http://fav.me/d2y86ht
Update on tracer girl
Firstly I'd like to apologise to everybody who reads my journal for that passive aggressive outburst in my last journal about discovering that someone on my DA friend list had been tracing, I was angry and disappointed at her, but mostly upset and I'm sorry I inflicted that on everybody.
Secondly not long after I reported a couple of the images I recognised someone else pointed out how similar one of them looked to a photograph of an alt model who when she did the trace wasn't all that heard of, but now five years later is pretty popular.
I've never made a complaint on DA before so I don't know if it was pulled by mods or if she deleted it
Hi there, I know you're tracing
Dear you,
I know you either won't read this or won't respond. You haven't responded to anything I've said in a long, long time now.
Anyway, I know you're tracing, kudos for taking the time to print the image out and trace over in pencil though!
Actually wait, you didn't even change the clothing colours, so as well as stealing someone's image you steal other people's designs?
Just on a weird off chance you didn't know, claiming "iiiiiiit's reference!" doesn't stop it being a trace.
Funny thing is, in the time since you started ignoring me completely, things have gone up in the world for me and I now know some pretty cool people, and the p
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