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Draw my Dragon and Kirin OC in any scenery
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Style: Anime (cell-shaded/soft-shaded)/manga & Semi-realism anime ONLY. NO chibis/portrait/abstract/anthro/animation/photomanipulation etc
Some examples that the style I like:
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Oi people - think before you click!Yesterday I got spammed to hell with messages linking to different variants of this image:
They can have slightly different graphics or contain different links but the message is always basically the same - go to this page and you'll receive 20 000

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I have to ask the question - how dim do you have to be to fall for it?
Ok let's see - we have an image hosted on a profile that is 1 day old and asks you to visit a website with a strange url with a promise of a financial reward on an another website. How do you even imagine that would work? And now, of course, people start crying that their computers got infected with malware. Which is great - every genius who fell for this obvious phishing scam deserved it. I hope your shitty computer burns and you along with it.
I know this is a no-duh for 90% of people reading it but for the sake of the rest lets revise what we all should know about online phishig. And before you go all:
No, no you can't.
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[FINISHED]hihihihi <3
Today I've reached 1,000+ watchers * O * holy carp what the fluck kfndmslkrhfgbjnsljshfnc
Amg did you know i never thought i'd get as many as 50 watchers when i joined dA XDDD
idfhvbnmsdjufgdvbjcnlsifh anyways
To thank all my watchers.... Im going to be giving away stuff owo
I know it's not much but I really don't have that much to give ;___; <3 Please understand
Im giving away a goodie bundle consisting of:

-Chibi from me

-Pixel Icon from me
-1 month premium
-150
You can look in my gallery if you want examples
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Total prizes reach 1000

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I find sticking to one style restrictive if you are a beginning/moderate artist! (even professionals I might say! though I can't speak for everyone)
Having a distinctive look on how your art is done and produced is understandable and its a desire to appear unique to the point some one can just SEE your work and instantly think 'Oh! that's Ten-days!' or something along the line. However, when you are trying to find who you are and what kind of art you are to produce, I recommend trying, well, a lot of different things! Different styles, mixing styles, different colouring techinque, brushes, tools, shading. Don't feel dependant on what you are already doing and don't feel pressured by people just for trying new things!
Push out of your comfort zone. Can't draw hands? don't avoid it! draw the heck out of them! (how else are you going to learn?)
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Made a video again :P...another fake Parashi Opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGa8pPlOxuQ
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I have finally decided to have some sort of give-away/contest/lottery/whatever-you-like-to-call-it

You will have the chance to win a drawing made by me, with you MLP original character
What you'll have to do to participate:
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1. Fav this journal
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Er. 508 watchers! I'm really slow at doing things for you guys.
You can slap me.
This raffle is for watchers only.
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Anyone who watches me after *Rashirou will not count.
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Art theft on DA

by ~slateman, Jun 9, 2010, 7:56:53 PM
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I have been looking around a bit on DA and have found MASSIVE amounts of art theft- I have turned in about 10 deviants in the last 6 months for art theft. These aren't people I tracked down either- just people who came through my page.

I am actually shocked at how brazen some of these thieves are. Maybe they don't know the rules but I think this kind of thing is common sense.

What do you folks think??? Lemme know.

EDIT: I gave an example of a major rip-off artist here on DA but was told that I can not do that. I had to remove it.

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~wildfeather87 Jun 10, 2010 Professional Photographer

So I have a question! As a digital artist, nothing is original anymore unless I take my photos I took and put them on here. And frankly sometimes; I wanna sometimes draw more then what I can capture with the camera, so is that also concered "Theft"? Because, the way I see it, yes sometimes it is original art work from someone else but it's different. IT"S not Identicle work! I mean of course if you put every little line and every little shade on there it would be "Theft" but if you take it and make it your own, to me that is not. Infact I'm working on some art work of skulls that are from skulls I found online, I don't know who drew them, but I"m going to put my style into it.

Tell me if that is "Theft" because everything else, I've seen, Is "theft" if you wanna get tehnical but I don't care. Every work is great and it's all one in a kind.

But try to crack down on them, I wish you luck. There are way more then you think, including some around you.

But I do agree with the person who said "give credit" I think I'll tell my friends to give credit to the original artists (If they know who they are)

Good luck and check out my webpage, I'm sure you'll see that nothing is truely "original"

~slateman Jun 10, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

Um... as long as someone gives credit to the source of their art and don't pretend its 100% original their cool with me.

If I redraw a superman cover I like (which I wouldn't- I do original work) I would say "original art by "x" redone by me.

Pretty simple.

~wildfeather87 Jun 10, 2010 Professional Photographer

That does make sense, however; what if you don't know quite who did it? Is a signature on it concidered writing it off as original work by you?
I'm just trying to figure it out, because I've done that before. The dolphin is a photo from someone I don't know who did it, and I didn't say them.
So if you want you can get me for that, but I honestly don't care. My art is my own, and the minute I change the color or anything on it it's orignal by me. Because to me, if it's not the same color or the same as the "original" it's not the original.

but that's just me

Ty for looking at my profile. Hope you enjoyed it

*sssk76 Jun 10, 2010 Professional General Artist

I commission a lot of people since I can't draw. I always post it WITH the artist that made it for me. It's not a difficult thing to do. Art theft is stupid. I had to go back and watermark all I could. Especially since quite a few things are for business and are copywrite.

~DarkBrainComics Jun 10, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

Art theft makes me sick. I also feel that way about software piracy and music pirating. It just shows a general lack of appreciation for artists and what they do. Even worse, it works to damage the very efforts that the person doing the stealing obviously enjoys.

~tabbat8 Jun 9, 2010

here's an image match/search prog called "tineye" available as a plugin or on site you can plug an image into for a wee
b-wide search to see if it's stolen , or to locate other sites it's on. it's free too.

~aztheg Jun 9, 2010 Professional General Artist

yes, watermarking really ruins art.. but knowing this.. it's kinda better to ruin art..

which is like hanging on a cliff..

~Zen904 Jun 9, 2010

most people that steal art are most likely jealous of the artists so they result to theft, i'll admit i have a couple of art works that arent mine in the devations but i went thru the proper channels and actually asked the person if it was alright. i took hellknight10s two draonball z pictures one of goku and the other of vegeta and put them togther like u see on tv where they half there face.

~slateman Jun 9, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

I think its cool as long as you give credit and ask permission.

~Zen904 Jun 9, 2010

i agree, i even told hellknight to let me know if he wants me to take them down i would do it with no problem

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