@sealhaus's post on Artfol
Have you had any experiences with an art thief???
Fortunately The only thing I’ve seen of mine is old art getting uploaded to Pinterest by Someone who definitely wasn’t me.Feb 6, 2022
Fortunately The only thing I’ve seen of mine is old art getting uploaded to Pinterest by Someone who definitely wasn’t me.Feb 6, 2022
#questions
#artthief
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Thankfully no, I don’t think anyone’s stolen my stuff so far. I think I’m too small of an artist who draws very niche things that a decent amount if people are turned away by. (I draw fat/plus sized anthro furry fantasy monsters, so yeah!)
I have been upping my watermark game recently too, including adding copyright labels on my websites!
I have been upping my watermark game recently too, including adding copyright labels on my websites!
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I dm art thieves very often and ask them to give proper credit and explain to them why they're doing something bad, but the art isn't mine. Most of the time they don't respond anyway. My art was stolen only once so far, some guy posted it on his story with a price and said it was for sale. I just reported it and within a few hours it was gone
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No one has stolen my art (at least not that I know of), but I found a 12 year old in wattpad stealing art and I felt kinda responsible of it bc she was one of my readers :') so I tried to talked to her to make her stop, but she literally did the bare minimum so I would leave her alone and then continued stealing art. I should probably talk to her again...
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•A little bit here and there from when I did fanart, but I rarely do fanart anyway and I don't really care about it haha. I like to think about the power I hold if I just simply did my usual drawings but with like Genshin characters instead of OCs sometimes tho lol
Other than that, I guess a close friend once traced my and another friend of mine's work, which was kinda amusing cuz idk how she thought she'd get away with it, but we were young and she's younger than us so it's understandable
Other than that, I guess a close friend once traced my and another friend of mine's work, which was kinda amusing cuz idk how she thought she'd get away with it, but we were young and she's younger than us so it's understandable
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Back when I only posted my art on this one website that wasn't actually made for posting art and took a lot of requests someone posted my art on Amino.. they even sold my art by taking on commissions and then requesting me to draw them with different usernames.. actually pretty smart lol.
Luckily someone who got suspicious about our different usernames, writing styles and usage of emoticons informed me about it.. and that's how I moved on to different apps to post my art and also learned to put a watermark on my stuff ^^"
Luckily someone who got suspicious about our different usernames, writing styles and usage of emoticons informed me about it.. and that's how I moved on to different apps to post my art and also learned to put a watermark on my stuff ^^"
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Yeah lmaO back in the day there used to be like drawing contests on YouTube in tiny niche communities. I entered, someone took my art, entered in the same contest and they woN. I had to contact the person lol thankfully they realized and credited me instead but it was brutal hahaha
The drawing was mega bad too so idk why they stole it lmao
The drawing was mega bad too so idk why they stole it lmao
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A piece of fanart got uploaded 2 a gravity falls fan account w/out credit once, im pretty sure they credited me after i talked to em tho so nothing too bad
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Yes! They traced my drawing or the same characters and colored different and changed the direction of the image and sold it as a commission
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well.. a friend on discord told me that apparently a fanart i did got reposted on deviantart. we spent hours seaeching but nothing. up to this day i dont know if its still there, i just have no clue 
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Very luckily not. Or at least to my knowledge.
Tbh artfol feels like a safe space for my art, cuz it feels like it's less likely to be stolen...
I mean- it still can be, and being on artfol is no shield for that, but... it gives me comfort ok-
Tbh artfol feels like a safe space for my art, cuz it feels like it's less likely to be stolen...
I mean- it still can be, and being on artfol is no shield for that, but... it gives me comfort ok-
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•Someone was literally impersonating me saying that they drew what I had posted. My friends found out before I did because they tried messaging “me” and found the responses suspiciously not me
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Zerochan, facebook, and vk.
I'm not sure if I'd consider it as art theft since both sites credited me, but Zerochan is a different case because I had a different name at that time, so they'd never find me because of my generic former name.
Vk and Facebook explicitly credited me by name + linked back to me.
Any blatant theft, as far as I know, hasn't happened yet.
I'm not sure if I'd consider it as art theft since both sites credited me, but Zerochan is a different case because I had a different name at that time, so they'd never find me because of my generic former name.
Vk and Facebook explicitly credited me by name + linked back to me.
Any blatant theft, as far as I know, hasn't happened yet.
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Well l experienced art theft before
Well the person l guessed there name as Sallyrose because it was something like that but not only they made NSFW art of my ocs l had at the time before the ocs l have now and then stole those ocs l used to have but they stole some of my art l had on DeviantArt at the time and she would mostly trace and post my art work on there account saying it's there and then they had my friends l had on DeviantArt turn against me because of some rumor! That l bullied them even tho they were the ones harassing and bullying me with some of there friends..
Well the person l guessed there name as Sallyrose because it was something like that but not only they made NSFW art of my ocs l had at the time before the ocs l have now and then stole those ocs l used to have but they stole some of my art l had on DeviantArt at the time and she would mostly trace and post my art work on there account saying it's there and then they had my friends l had on DeviantArt turn against me because of some rumor! That l bullied them even tho they were the ones harassing and bullying me with some of there friends..
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I had a drawing I did of rouge the bat appear on Pinterest without my knowledge, I can’t find it now tho
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