Another October monster sale commission, and one I could not have been more excited about. Elias continues to be one of my favorite characters, and The Ancient Magus Bride one of my favorite series, and so I was utterly thrilled to get to draw him on commission, and traditionally no less!
9×12. Ballpoint pen and Kuretake ink on paper.
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2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.
1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.
Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.
You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.
2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will
Looks like someone’s been tracing my art and posting it to Google Plus.
Their Google Plus accounts can be found [here] and [here]. (Be careful, there’s some censored nsfw there.) I’ve already filed a report with Google Plus, and I would have filed a report with Tumblr but it seems as if there’s none of this artwork on their tumblr account (which can be found [here]).
I’m really upset and disappointed about this but I’ve dealt with this person before in terms of copying character design and it seems like they just don’t stop. So I was hoping to bring some light to it.
If there’s any sort of help anyone can give me, that’d be really appreciated.
An Update on the Situation
Things have not gotten better and in fact I would say that they’re beginning to get worse. Here are two more “new” pieces that have been brought to my attention.
This makes for a total of eight so far.
I’ve also learned that this person is doing commissions on an Objects Head Amino and I fear the worse: they may be tracing my art or the art of others, and making money off of it.
This has to come to an end, now.
Developments
Ironic, huh?
They traced an art I made about the fact they’ve been tracing my art.
I’m not going to stop adding to this post and the longer it gets just further proves my point. It’s ridiculous that this continues to happen and I’m doing everything I can to look into getting it shut down and stopped for good.
I’d like to thank every message that’s currently sitting in my inbox about suggestions on how to handle this situation and everyone who’s standing by me and helping me with it. It means so much to me that you’re supporting me in this.
Things like this can destroy artists and nobody deserves this kind of disrespect.
Provided to me by a source through discord, I’m going to help out and tag the tracer’s current active tumblr.
that-one-darkness-dad is the current url of the tracer. They’ve made it so access to their blog is limited to the dashboard so permalinks to their blog may not work.
With this said, I am all for giving someone the benefit of the doubt if styles do happen to look similar. However, when there’s empirical evidence to the contrary when there’s far too much in common where it looks like an exact copy- line for line- then there is no doubt to be had. Something has to be done to stop it.
An apology does little when one denies the allegations to these obvious actions of plagiarism which can ruin professional repertoire on both sides which can cause catastrophic damage if either artist depends on their works for a living, be it through professional works or through free-lance independent professionalism through patreon support. These aren’t the sorts of things that go away over time either, the effects of this can last for much longer, even linger for years after.
It needs to be said how much that something like this can damage both the person responsible for the tracing as well as the original source. It had to be said so that appropriate action can be taken. And no, I will not speak for things that do little to aid in stopping plagiarism, but instead only lead to more problems: bullying, hate-mail, and hurtful call outs will only cause more harm than good.
Don’t be a jerk, don’t be that person, report the art and act like a civil human being concerned for the original content creator. Don’t be another problem, be someone that resolves it.
I’ll also provide other links that direct to sites that host the copies.
Adding “Defamation of Character” to the cease and desist letter as well.
Let it be known here and now that I haven’t once messaged them personally since this debacle started.
And if there so happens to be anyone out there sending rude or disrespectful messages to this person on my behalf?
I need it to stop immediately.
This is a very serious and a very delicate matter and if there’s any sort of ill-will or malice being thrown around I need it to be shut down. Because not only will you be hurting this person, you’ll be hurting me as well. And I’m not here to hurt anyone.
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