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tavington:

EVEN MORE STOLEN IMAGES, PLEASE RE-BLOG

Please look at these images. This “stall” belongs to a Dealer who exhibited at London Expo this weekend.

Images look familiar? They should. They’re all STOLEN.

This guy claims to be the “genius” behind these works of art. Truth is, the majority, if not ALL of them, have been swiped from deviantART, printed on canvas and sold WITHOUT PERMISSION.

This guy is a fraud, a plagiarist, a thief and liar. Why is he even allowed to exhibit at London Expo.

We all need to gather proof that this guy isn’t all he claims to be. If you recognise ANY of these images. PLEASE SHARE OR COMMENT BELOW. A lot of these works are by American artists. We need to inform them and put a stop to this.

Please, please share and let a team of us put this right. We need to gather a lot of solid evidence to get this guy thrown out.

He didn’t have any business cards (no surprises there) but he’s exhibited and sold at London Expo many, many times.

I intend to write a deviantART journal about this and spread the word myself. It would help greatly if you could share your photos here too and we can pool all our evidence in one place and compare photos.

BY THE WAY, THE GUY IN THE FOURTH PHOTO IS THE MAIN STALL-HOLDER, I BELIEVE, HE WAS PUTTING ALL THE CANVASES OUT ON DISPLAY.

Thank you all for reading.

How come nobody that works at the con not even noticed the completely different styles?? Ugh. Well I know 6 of the artists in these pieces so I’ve contacted them to see if they know about this at all. Just horrible. Giving this a signal boost. 

(via noyuki)

riningear:

sourcecops:

carbunculus:

hya-hazama:

Um wow I don’t even know how to reply to these

But this makes me pretty sad.

I’m srsly crey.

sighs self off planet

Reblogging from my personal simply to show what posting non-sourced fanart without permission does to the artists.

Some people apparently think that “it’s not that big of a problem” and artists need to “learn how to deal”. The problem is so big that the artists themselves are giving up, simply because they think disrespect for artists is so big that this won’t change. 

Think about that if you ever feel like posting non-sourced fanart.

Wow. As an artist, I think this is one of the most legitimately heart-breaking things that can happen to an artist - when the artist himself/herself could be getting so much more respect, and someone takes it away because of greed or laziness. 

Like, I don’t think a lot of editors or copiers understand. There’s something that comes with seeing your own work taken as if it were never your own, like an old, prized possession stolen and being paraded around. You can go ahead and prove it’s your own, but seeing that someone else with it, as if they owned it all along, can do a lot to you. 

And then, even worse is when the artist (like these) has no will to go back and get it, because they’ve given up, because the thief is so rampant and has done so much to the prize that it’s unrecognizable, or because the artist literally doesn’t know how to say, “I would like to claim that as mine. Please stop saying it is yours.” And by then, the picture has gone around tumblr a time or two, and it might be almost unrecognizable compared to the original, and there will be so many chances lost for others to see that artist’s work. 

It can take hours, maybe days, for an artist to do the piece, but it only takes a few minutes for a blogger to skip over something as simple as sourcing or editing and to rip away the respect that the artist worked so hard to earn. 

Please, source your pictures. It’s a matter of copying and pasting a URL into a blog - much easier than saving and re-uploading a picture. 

And don’t edit without permission. If you like a work of art, why would you want to change it? 

(Source: alexeilaughingalonewithblastia, via gonebonkers)

Ib

vgperson:

vgperson:

Ib (pronounced “Eeb,” similar to “Eve”) is an horror adventure game by kouri made in RPG Maker 2000. It involves an art gallery, and I translated it.

The rest, you’ll have to see for yourself.

(Reposting this because I’ve updated it to no longer require Japanese language support nor the RTP, barring an extra program to fake installing the latter. I did have to take care of a few odd bugs resulting from this, though, so please report anything wrong.)

Forever… Forever Reblog.

chazittarius:

(Source: pixiv.net, via kamiya-sexual)

Ib

vgperson:

vgperson:

Ib (pronounced “Eeb,” similar to “Eve”) is an horror adventure game by kouri made in RPG Maker 2000. It involves an art gallery, and I translated it.

The rest, you’ll have to see for yourself.

(Reposting this because I’ve updated it to no longer require Japanese language support nor the RTP, barring an extra program to fake installing the latter. I did have to take care of a few odd bugs resulting from this, though, so please report anything wrong.)

sendaiphiliac:

fyeaharttips:

mariealbertine:

This is Jack Hamm’s entire section on folds, minus a page that was repetitive so I ditched it to fit the photoset limit. If you guys like, I’ll scan more of his stuff from time to time, I have been trying to get everyone on board with him forever!

To reiterate, these scans are from Jack Hamm’s Drawing The Head And Figure.

Thank you so much mariealbertine for submitting this! :»!

Oh my that arm wheel is so useful.

(via noyuki)

ADCOM ART THEFT: Adcom Art Theft/Tracing/Copying

okolnir:

adcomarttheft:

Who or what is Adcom?

Adcom is a creative training institute that uses artwork tracing as a method of learning. This is not something new or unheard of.

But Adcom has gone beyond the pale by using traced works in their advertising.

What exactly has happened?

Observe a sample of…

welp the MOST PROMINENT PART of this post is the ad itself and if there are a lot of tumblr scrolling skimmers in that region of the world, the poor construct of this post actually promotes their school more than anything else honestly.

BUT ON TOPIC

The most perplexing part of the current amateur/noob professional art scene is how DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND the concept of tracing and copying is. IT’S NOT THAT COMPLICATED. Trace and copy all you like for practice. Do whatever you need to learn and improve yourself. But don’t go posting those everywhere—let alone using it for any other purpose—with your name on it unless you’re granted rights to, because first of all it is not an accomplishment in the first place, and secondly if you “made it better”, your piece is still nothing without the original foundation and no one let you use the hard work put into making that foundation free of charge. Academic plagiarism is punishable by expulsion and people seem to understand why an essay with a paragraph or so copied from elsewhere is unacceptable, so I really cannot fathom why it takes such long winded discussions every single time this happens to explain to the culprit why they’re wrong.

Sorry for the frequent reblog and non art post lately, I will control myself from now on ]:

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