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It would benefit our community to go over a couple of art courtesy guidelines:
- Please don't provide other people's customs (without their permission) as examples for commissions, GCC requests, breedings, etc. If you are an artist and shown a custom as an example and don't see that custom in your commissioner's lair, ask the commissioner for proof that the owner permitted it as an example.
- Please don't provide specific images or artwork you do not own (without permission) as examples for commissions, GCC requests, breedings, etc. Using these as "inspiration" is becoming an issue because artists are being encouraged to copy these images. Instead, give the artist some description of your idea, keywords to look up on google, provide your own drawings, or stock images that have the appropriate permissions.
- You can easily generate a color palette from an image you like by using this site so providing an image for a color palette should not be necessary. This site also provides palettes for your use.
- Do not save custom images and upload them to outside websites if you don't own the custom in question on your account, or you are not the artist of the custom in question. This is becoming a problem for custom owners and artists who don't like seeing their work uploaded to Dropboxes or image hosting sites by people they either do not know, or do not want to "save" their customs or display them.
Showing courtesy to your fellow user and artist is important when it comes to a community like this running smoothly, so please keep these guidelines in mind for the future.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:20pm
- Erithan - super busy
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:24pm
Shouls it be noted that on colourlovers some pallettes are not set as usable unless bought?
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:25pm
You would think it is common sense. But apparently not, or the news post would not have been had to be made.
Thank you slash as always for all you do and addressing these issues.
- exo
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:26pm
Sadly, that seems to be the case, Sweet April. It makes me sad, especially that people upload customs to other websites. ?_?
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:28pm
Thank you so much for addressing this, Slash.
- AremRae
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:29pm
Thank you for the news post Slash.
- Aethubryn
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:33pm
J.A.K. (#15) Can we still link pictures for marking references, assuming it's based on a real animal/plant/something else not copyrighted? For instance, I had found a picture online of a siamese cat that shares similar markings to one of mine. Or maybe a person wants something piebald, but they'd like the markings to be placed a certain way and have found a ref picture to show what they like. It can be difficult to describe stuff like this with words, and it's not taking someone's character ideas or anything. Is this still okay?
- Banesidhe & gone
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:37pm
What about using songs and animated music videos (since this is kind of specific artwork...) as GCC prompts? Would this also require permission?
- quitting
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:42pm
Is it problematic to have a commissioner give you an existing artwork/image/inspiration folder as a very loose prompt? From what I understand, if someone gives you an image to work from, it's NOT supposed to be followed verbatim, or even remotely closely. It's meant to be an inspiration/starting point/general idea of what the commissioner wants. It should be common sense not to rip a design that's so obviously referenced from a single source. But are all artwork/image based prompts banned now, regardless of how loosely something is based?
- finches
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Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:46pm
echoing Kuri (#51211)
loose themeatic references are kind of really different than saying "here's an image, make me this exact thing"
Posted on: Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:22pm
This shouldn't even be a newspost. I mean, this is just common sense, isn't it? ):