kyleehenke:

fishervk:

lakeeverett:

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my personal income and wellbeing as an independent artist are directly tied to my popularity on the internet! maintaining an audience is extremely important for me, especially as someone who’s trying to make a career out of this whole art thing. 

please consider: ms. sugar is not losing income, a fanbase, or viewers for her show because i decided to draw her already extremely well-known characters and offer them up to the internet for free viewing. however, as a young artist, when you remove my credit and take my own art out of my hands, i am losing my audience. everybody knows who rebecca sugar is, but a far smaller portion of people know who fisher vk is, and removing my name from my art has a far greater and more negative impact on me, than the impact a professional show-runner on cartoon network faces because someone drew her characters.

maybe don’t send artists rude and entitled asks! thanks

Ok but it isn’t your audience. A real artist has their own ideas and their own characters. What you’re doing is just fan art, which is great and all I’m sure artists really appreciate that. But don’t act like anybody needs permission to post these alterations of someone else’s idea. That’s what’s really entitled.

It’s like a cover band they don’t get any kind of copyright or rights to a song they didn’t create, neither do they get any control independent control over that work because it fundamentally isn’t theirs. If you set up shop at comic con or any legitimate place of business you’d be shut down pretty fast. Like people who sell fake sports equipment at gas stations.

Here’s some further reading on the subject

http://kirawra.deviantart.com/art/The-Truth-About-Selling-Fanart-212570726

unless i’m missing something, that link is about copyright law and selling copyrighted materials? i’ve read it in the past, and it’s…not what you asked me about, at all. you’re arguing that it’s perfectly fine to repost my art because the characters belong to someone else. selling fanart of copyrighted material is a different topic completely. (not to mention, if you think people don’t sell fanart at conventions, i’m sorry, but you…have obviously never set foot inside a convention.)

back to the point, my drawing, regardless of the fact that it’s an alteration of an idea, is still my drawing!!! is it an artwork of a character i did not create? yes, and nobody is denying that! but that does not change the fact that the piece i poured hours of my time into, while picturing someone else’s characters in its content, is still my drawing. someone else who reblogged this post put it very well when they said that photographers don’t own the people or the places they photograph, but the photos are still their property, and you still need permission to use them or you are an art thief! in addition, i’m pretty sure that any band that posted a cover song would be rightfully pissed if you stripped their credit and claimed it was your own, lmfao

i also don’t like the implication that i’m not, in your words, “a real artist” because what i’m doing “is just fanart,” or that i’m equivalent to selling cheap knockoffs of real art? in this day and age, especially using social media like tumblr, you need to draw fanart to earn your audience before people care about your original stuff. you need to, unless you are some sort of prodigy, which i am not. and that doesn’t devalue your art at all – saying otherwise is pure elitism.

RE the “fake sports equipment” analogy: i’m not…trying to be rebecca sugar. i’m not passing my art off as official. again, i am not stealing an audience. nobody is going to stop watching steven universe because my art is Just So Dang Good there’s no point in the cartoon any more.

you’re being very rude and i’m not interested in debating this any more!! please stop sending me messages now!!!!!!!! thanks