I hate making call out post and hate drama. This used to be my friend, but they have taken this way to far for my own standards. This must be done.
An artist going by the name of i-make-stuff-i-guess, has been tracing mine and other artist artwork without permission or credit. They have been labeling this art they trace as just “heavily referenced” and that is completely false. They have traced some of my older art that I have made on Instagram back from 2020-2022. Me and many others have tried to tell them to stop, only to be met with being cussed at and our comments being deleted.
They have also gone out of their way to take designs and not even change them in the slightest to at least make it their own thing. All of their Oc refs are either traced from my old work or others ( mainly my work )
Some other artist that have been affected are my friends @/17magpiesinatrenchcoat, @/scarfsfx, @/boompf, @/skytrohero and many others who would like to stay anonymous.
Yang has gone on with this for way too long and it has affected us mentally.
Again, DO NOT HARASS THEM OR ATTACK THEM!! Just report the traced work and block them.
Now, I will be taking a break for the rest of the month. My head hurts, I am beyond mad, and I am losing my will to draw. See you all in August. Please spread this around so no one else is affected by their toxic behavior.
WHAT JOYOUS TIMES!! I AM FINALLY FREE!!! THE CURSE IS BROKEN!! I CAN STOP MAKING THESE STUPID BASES AND DO ACTUAL ART!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN I PLANNED A PROJECT WITH THESE ALREADY-
As always the more involved layers are in the reblogs. Do whatever you want just don’t remove the signature
Hey guys I was thinking of redesigning my splatoon guys!! 😲🤭
I think they were a bit too like the game style 💀, so wanted to try out a cool, sharper style 😊😁
I also think their palettes were a bit too… 💁, so I made them a bit more cohesive and warm 🤭🤭🤭
Tell me what you think 😘💕☺️
When will internet artist remember that tracing is a key part of learning art?? Like obviously don’t trace someone’s work and like sell it for a profit or something like that. But tracing as a whole? Girl I was tracing things under my teachers instruction all through my after school art classes to learn where to shade. They’d have us trace outlines of things and fill them in with all the correct shading and details. They’d have us trace the same thing over and over until we got a feel for where things would go. That’s why light boxes exist, to trace with. Tracing isn’t some big evil art sin, it’s part of learning. Obviously don’t be selling art traced from someone else, THAT would be stealing since you’re making a profit from someone else’s art. But tracing for practice, using a base etc? Literally not an issue at all. I’m begging y’all to take an actual art class and hear it from a teacher yourselves.
EDIT: All removed! Thanks for your help! 🧡they’ve changed their username to NewLeaf (formerly CheshireGata) https://toyhou.se/NewLeaf bc last i heard is that they’re doing more after they got caught lol. do NOT buy from them
Link to my original art | chest-of-sketches original art
feel free to submit a report ticket if you have an account! :) my art has been traced a few times before TTvTT its making me uncomfortable to draw my zoras tbh ;;
Top is the finish project and then, Left is the just the line art and Right is the picture I found on Pinterest. All these pictures I trace over are from Pinterest. Pinterest has really easy pics to trace over.