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I'm not a fan of the ones out there...
What I mean is, I have a very strong suspicion you didn't draw these by hand, but just did some cut and paste work (along with slight line editing and color changes) of vectors created by other artists. Art theft is a serious issue, and I guess I didn't think I would run into it on the Arena here.
Quote from: DancingPhoenix on October 24, 2013, 08:13:28 AMWhat I mean is, I have a very strong suspicion you didn't draw these by hand, but just did some cut and paste work (along with slight line editing and color changes) of vectors created by other artists. Art theft is a serious issue, and I guess I didn't think I would run into it on the Arena here.All of this.I can reverse image search most of your personas and come up with the original images in a couple of seconds. Your avatar is a recolored wet-hair Rarity. Adding a clipart Santa hat and a painted hoof does NOT make it yours. Your image of the pink pony with the smiley face is a recolored Applejack without her hat. Your g4 Twilight is an edited version of the one that Doctor-G posted on Deviant Art, you changed her hair. I could go on, but I think this is pretty much obvious.
I fully admit my guilt on some of these base images and I apologize for my transgressions. I'll stop the making them.
That's not going to be too much of a problem it seems. After a year, they seemed to have stopped using those. However there are a few of the ones I did that are still around. What about the ones I did copying someone else's style? Was that wrong?Does that count as stealing too?