Brittle Wings

It was recently brought to my attention that someone had stolen a piece of my artwork and reposted it on their Deviantart gallery, claiming that they had made it. Thankfully, almost as soon as I reported it, the staff removed it. You’ve got to wonder what drives some people though, haven’t you?

I don’t have a problem with reposting without asking as long as I recieve credit (or in the case of my winamp skin you can repost without leaving credit but do not remove the readme.txt containing my details). I also don’t have a problem with people who take a piece of my art and create their own version of it, again as long as they credit. It’s the people who just steal something and then pretend they made it. Why? And how, more-to-the-point, can you accept critique on a piece you didn’t create?

I have not been updating this site, or my DA for a while now. It’s not that I’ve not been working on art (quite the opposite), but I feel that it’s now getting to the point, especially with my flash, that I don’t want to post it. I have begun tattooing on people, but I shalnt be posting any photos of any tattooing I’ve done online in the public arena on the grounds that what I have been tattooing have been my own designs and I feel that there is too much theft out there to warrent me posting much more original art. This is not to say that I won’t be posting anything else ever again, but if I do it will be a very small image with watermarks splashed all over it.

Enough gloom! Have a fanart!

Alex wrote an adorable drabble that I felt the need to illustrate in the cutest form possible.