In light of the recent posts, I’d like to tell you all a little story.
Now, I’m not some crazy super famous artist, but I have been around for a long, long time. Most of the publishers I’ve worked for still talk to me regularly, and the children of some of those art directors have interned with me/take classes from me.
I get an email one day, from one of the publishers who’s son is a fan of my work, saying “Hey Jessica, we’re accepting submissions for our latest magazine issue, and (name redacted, son), recognized one of your pieces in the latest submissions. Are you coming back under a psuedonym?”
Considering that’s the first I’d heard of it, obviously not. The publisher was kind enough to give me the person’s name and info and I contacted them to let them know that they could not use my work in their portfolio. They denied it (even though we had the pieces there to show that yes, it was my work).
Here’s where using other people’s work is a career buster. I talked to my publisher friends. They talked to their friends. One of my friends has a regular gaming night with some of the art directors for Tor, Blizzard, and Wizard of the Coast, and naturally as a fan of my work and a friend, they passed the word along.
Within about two weeks, that person’s name had been black listed across most major publishing and gaming company’s art departments.
Remember. I”m not famous. I’m just some chick who has a lot of friends. That’s the same with a lot of these artists. That is why I say *do not* trace people’s artwork and try to sell it, show it as your own, submit it in portfolios, etc. That is why I say it is a career buster, because I have personally watched people’s dreams of an artistic career go up in smoke over this kind of thing.
If you are friends with someone who traces other people’s work, and ‘makes a few changes’. Be a friend. Be a REAL friend, help them protect their career by encouraging them to find their own voice and their own path. If their dream is to be an artist, then they NEED to be protected from themselves when they do something stupid like that, because they will never know when they meet that person who has just the right connections… and closes all of the doors on their career, just like that.
Ro’liath, for the headcanon thing :p
What they smell like: cologne/perfume, armor (leather, metal) and death.
How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): I doubt he sleeps much if at all, since DKs don’t really need sleep.
How much time they spend getting ready every morning: An hour, at least. You would not believe how difficult it is to get the blood off of everything. Not to mention everything else that has to be done to stave off rot/insects/etc…
Their favorite thing to collect: Cats.
Left or right-handed: Ambidextrous. It’s a combat advantage.
Favorite kind of weather: Anything cold.
The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: The shell game.
TMI Tuesday.
Because we all love inappropriate questions about our OCs.
tiptopturnip: felhunter: more doodles from the stream! guess where i got lazy on the caeliri picture dorksworn adries shirexia tiptopturnip I love it so muuuuch!
more doodles from the stream!
guess where i got lazy on the caeliri picture
I love it so muuuuch!
hornedfreak: More doodlin’, this time it’s the goofball paladins with one of their mentors. Just to note, the man is a priest and husband of a paladin named Antonius who was Marcus’ teacher and later on decided to train Cel as well, probably hoping that she’ll be more
More doodlin’, this time it’s the goofball paladins with one of their mentors.
Just to note, the man is a priest and husband of a paladin named Antonius who was Marcus’ teacher and later on decided to train Cel as well, probably hoping that she’ll be more competent than his former goofy student. Until she approached him with a “I think I’m in love with your friend what do?” question, that is.
The battle priest, Lefter, was badly injured in one of the first battles with the Scourge, and while he survived, he couldn’t walk anymore. That, of course, did not affect his abilities in any way, and he helped out as a healer during the war. At this point both men are retired, to an extent, and stay in Hearthglen, probably silently hoping that their reckless students won’t get themselves killed.
Blah blah blah.
aggregatoredicazzate: I’m going to hack the database
// I can imagine the Forshaken and Deaths Knights coming up with shitty undead puns.
-Someone screams
“Be quiet or else you’ll wake up the dead- Oh, wait. We’re already awake.”
kagesatsuki: Me everyday since I adopted this chinchilla. My weakness for cute is real. Tweet
meadowlarking: Commissioned piece for wanusalla.deviantart I like her face a lot haha
excuse me but doesnt this image by Richardparson at deviantArt
look very similar to isei-silva’s commission for tevruden???
i mean i went to put them over each other and although Richardparson’s piece is a bit smaller than isei’s (i had to resize it up a bit), when Richardparson’s is flipped horizontally, they perfectly align
edit: i went to Richardparson’s page once more to ask him and noticed that he has been inactive since more or less june 2014. there are also comments ‘hidden by owner’ on his page, lots of em, which i suspect are written by those who attempted to call him out (tho i dont recognize any other stolen artworks other than isei’s). has this issue been brought up in the past?? ……….am i late to this
edit:: WAIT NO!!! his last activity is 1 week ago
Looks like the dude replied:
I indeed did use Iseijin’s beautiful composition and pose for this piece. I struggled with the particular pose for this piece, and wanted to attempt something similar, but had difficulty in achieving it.
I never wish to steal work, or give offence; as the artist is one of my absolute favourites and a huge inspiration to me, who’s work and guides I have studied in an attempt to better my own line-art.
If Iseljin feels upset or offended with my work then I will remove it at request.