| |
| So.Where to begin? =__= Bah.
I'll be posting this here (on the Brigade) and in my "rant" blog on LJ, so it'll be available 2 places at once. Ha ha.
Our upstairs neighbors are a problem now. They used to be kind of all right. At first it was just one guy and his cat and guitars. He'd be loud on his guitars, but what the hell. So are we. Plus his cat must be fat as hell - it made a ton of noise up there when it ran. That's fine. I know we have faults, too. So we put up with all that. He also smokes.
Not a problem, but...he lives upstairs like I said, so the damned idiot drops cigarette butts down on our "front lawn"! Mr. Prince doesn't eat them anymore (or try to) but since we have Katamari she will if she spots one. And there are plenty. I was even going to ignore that because, hey, we do have a new puppy that barks (I'm still trying to teach her "QUIET", she's only been here for 3 days).
Last night it was just the straw that broke my back. I've been putting up with all this shit - but now he's got a bitch with him. And I do mean "bitch". I hate to be rude and hateful, but I'm a petty fat bitch myself. This one's a "thin, pretty bitch". One of those that looks at me like I'm subhuman just because I'm fat, you know? AND they have a small baby. The baby is quite, thank goodness.
But now they fuck.
LOUDLY.
A lot.
And I mean, this girl has movie-theater orgasms. At least 10 during each time they do it. Here's my policy on this, okay? If you're in an apartment complex that surrounds you with several other families: they will hear you have sex. So if you scream loudly (and hell, obviously faking it, no one does that every single bloody time, if at all) they're going to giggle. And perhaps make a comment.
Zach laughed with me, quietly as we could, but then when they 'finished' he said, loudly, "Okay, they're done!"
This apparently pissed them off. I can see why (Zach went a little overboard) but they haven't any right to make our lives hell now. They made a LOT of noise, virtually advertising they were having sex. Plus he could have been saying that about anything, it could have been a coincidence.
So now they stomp around even louder. Last night when they were either on the balcony above us or had the door open Zach came inside thinking Katty was whining and making noise. He was like, 'what's all that?' Her said it couldn't have been a human, because it had to have been a psychopath the way the noises were being made.
I frowned. "What noise?"
Apparently there was "another dog" that was whining and crying and stuff. That's what he thought. Seconds later I had to pee Katty, so I went out.
Oh, there's another dog out there all right. A bitch.
And she lives above us. That whore bag was making all those noises (faking, making them because I was outside) and giggling wickedly, all the while she disturbed my new baby from peeing. So I did what I usually do - the cold rage settled in and I said calmly (although deadly vicious-like) "Next time I'll get a microphone." She shut up, but there was stomping above us for awhile.
This morning there was stomping, too. They stomp when they think we're being too loud. It's that fucking bitch. He was perfectly cool with us and didn't make a lot of noise before. SHE WEARS HEELS IN THAT DAMNED APARTMENT! If you're wearing heels you don't walk around in an upstairs apartment. Geebus! They're making me rage. I swear I don't want them to be pissed at us because they can cause trouble for our new puppy (try to get her thrown out because she "makes too much noise" or something)...but this is getting serious.
I know they won't listen to reason and I'm past the petty 'let's do this or that to them' stage (I was going to call the office and report the cigarette butts last night).
They're really pissing me off, though. I wonder if I should call and just say we're having issues with the upstairs people, in case they try to say anything against us. :/ But I don't want to be that person, you know? | |
|
| Redrawing, or copying; is the art of drawing something as close to the "original" as possible when you did not draw the original art. (I do it sometimes for practice and once or twice to show someone what a screen shot would look like if I drew it). Redraw I've done myself: 
 Actual image from the anime ONE PIECE. Now yes, I do it sometimes...see? But rarely; I mostly don't post that stuff on the web unless it came out really cute. Plus I try to always remember to SAY it's a redraw of an actual scene. I'm talking about people who do this as their ENTIRE GALLERY and it's all they do: redrawn images from everything; no original poses or even colors and simply 'claim' it as their own. I found one and decided I'd try to be civil and discuss the matter with them. Me: You use screen shots as a base for reference, don't you?
I think you might do better if you started drawing -original poses- because your entire gallery of art appears to be traced, (even if it isn't and I know that you might not be tracing). Drawing some original poses would -prove- you don't and would make you a more viable artist in the eyes of people who do draw original poses and don't copy art. It's not a bad thing to use references as practice but when you start loading them to a site where others have drawn originals it irks the other artists.
I do NOT mean this to be a flame, nor am I heckling you. I even kept it to a PM so that we could chat about it before anything else. I just like to see original work (and the basis of this site is to upload original work, you're not even allowed to upload work that looks copied even if it is not).
If you deny this and yell at me I'll be sorry to find all the original screens and report your work. I'll be sorry, but I'll do it. I'm giving you the chance to do it yourself and realize that DA (Deviantart) would be the better place to post work that is "copied" from an original. They allow it. Them:
Yes, I do use references for my art. But I didn't think it was against the rules... But if it wasn't allowed, then why does the Otaku let you post it anyways? I do draw all of my art and I didn't think it was wrong. I don't think it's plagiarism. I don't really know what to say... That's just my style of drawing. I see something I like and I am inspired to draw it. I'm sorry if it offends you...
Me again:
Otaku even lets people use screen captures as wallpapers, even though they say that all the wallpapers should be "original art". (That always makes me angry, when I look at OP wallpapers I have some of the only original art ones...there must be like, 4, maybe in all those 810 papers. 2 are mine. O_o)
I just think that when you use references for the art it's cool to let people know you didn't come up with the original pose, that you just redrew something inspired by the person who drew it in the first place. I'm sorry if I upset you BTW; it's just that after years of drawing and working in the field it seems people get more comments on non-original work. It makes me ill, especially when I work so hard on my stuff (and as a career, to get people to notice my original work and hopefully go to my site).
I could redraw stuff (and have) so that it comes out looking exactly like a screen grab of whatever anime/manga I see. But that's -not really a style-, it's someone else's. If you can get so close to the original artist's artwork by redrawing, hopefully you'll work more and develop your own in the end. That would be awesome. Discuss? They say it's "their style". Actually...that would be someone else's they're mimicking. They haven't found theirs yet. I can see they were happy with their art and they don't think they've done anything wrong...but they're deceiving people into thinking they're so "awesome" by redrawing Oda's/Toei's work. A more true "awesome" would be drawing it to look like that but not using a scene in the actual anime/manga. I use "references"! But a reference is actually just to use as 'hey, did I get the scar(s) right?' Not a complete copy. :/ | |
|
| Written at my Lemonfingers Folio, so there are some references to those folders and chapters within that site. Just because I write fan fiction doesn't mean it sucks. I just wish some people would look beyond the norm and see into the pieces I write rather than wave them off after a casual dismissive glance. They cannot because all they see is what type the piece is: fan writing. Fan writing isn't always bad. For the most part I'll agree with you and admit it's horribly written, badly punctuated with poor grammar and misspelled words that would make a second grader flinch. But if you read the first few sentences of something you'll can see immediately if the piece is going to be one of these or is something a little different. It's just that you, as the reader, need to give these stories a chance. I write mostly "self insert" fiction, which means I place myself (as Elly Sketchit) within any given storyline (anime, cartoons, television shows). This persona, however, is not me but a reflection of my wants, needs and desires. She mostly doesn't follow actions I would take in real life and she is not a very nice person. This character - for she is a character as much as any of the others -- is not a goddess-like incarnation of myself. She has weaknesses and flaws just like the others around her. Yes, a lot of my work centers around love and romance. This leads me to another stamp that people place upon my literature: erotica. I do not write "only" erotic fan fiction (or as anime fans call it, 'hentai'). To this end on Lemonfingers I've placed a folder of all my non-erotic pieces called "Stuff That Isn't Erotica". This is to point out that although it's what I am known for I do write other things. If you dislike deep, intense romantic scenes you don't have to read those pieces. There are plenty others which I've done. In fact, there are more non-erotic than erotic pieces in my folio. I even write essays (to your probable dismay right about now) and poetry. Perhaps I don't write them as well but I always try my best on everything. All that I write comes directly from my head but is tempered by my heart as it flows onto the screen when I type. I usually get an offhand comment of 'nice, but fan fics aren't my thing' on galleries and portfolios around the web. That is, of course, your choice as a reader. But even if you do not like fan fiction what is stopping you from reading a piece if you don't know the characters? This makes a well-written piece of fan fiction like any other short story out there. If you read only 'original character' pieces, what's wrong then? It's like ripping my work to bits simply because you have categorized it as a genre that, to put it bluntly: almost always stinks. There's one thing I can see, however. I do understand if you're the jealous type. I hail from that same boat myself and will never read anything about characters being paired up if I like one or the other. In fact, I've tried to read other fan fiction of my favorite series and shows and always shudder. I completely agree with most people when they say they hate fan fics. I've come across perhaps one or two good writers of them in all my years (not counting myself because I'm trying to be humble for once). And as I'm 31 years old as of my last birthday in 2007 this is saying a bit much. I want to change the general concept of fan fiction in the populace's eye by getting my work out there. But what good will it do if no one reads it? I suppose step one is we have to write decent pieces. Are you a writer that wants to compose something that won't make someone's brain itch with disgust when they read it? Decent fan fiction has several points of interest: 1) the story has at least the semblance of a plot, even in hentai (erotica) 2) The character you insert (if self insert) is not a MS 3) the characters all act the way they would in said situation 4) the grammar is decent and the punctualization good 5) the writer does not mix languages too much Let's break it down, shall we? I'll crack my proverbial knuckles and have a shot at number one: plot. I'm not saying that a short story has to have the best plot in the world but it at least has to have a base. Why are the characters doing what they're doing? When? Where are they? I'm guilty of a few "quickie" plot lines myself (especially during erotica that I simply have to get off my chest) but the story should not fall flat because of it. I like seeing where people are and feeling what they feel in a piece. This doesn't have to be the obvious '(He) turned. "I'm scared," (he) said' every single time an emotion is displayed. You can set the tone with with where your characters are in such as a dark, dismal cave or the wonderfully fitting (and often used) thunderstorm. What happened? Do you want your characters to have a romantic scene? Why are they having it? Lead up to this or the reader is going to feel like you've slapped them in the face with it. If you write a series or are known for your pairings you may eventually skip the hand-holding process but if this is your first attempt some reasons are going to be needed. I've seen far too many pieces where the character so desired by the author is "immediately in true love" with the lead. This, of course, is usually some overly hyped "Mary Jane" or "Gary Stu" character that everyone loves and has no flaws. I know I haven't covered plot so well as I should have, but I brushed up on it. Let's move on to the MS - the Mary Sue or Jane (Gary Stu in the case of a male) Syndrome. This is typical of fan fiction and I generally get accused of it by people that do not understand what a MS is. You can use a little checklist to see if your character is falling into the "dangerous" category: Does the character have a name that is a part of yours? Does he or she have wings, cat appendages, a halo, or all of the above? Is part of their name a word in Japanese mixed with another character's (from the show you're writing in)? Is it Sakura? (Double points. Stop yourself now). Do they have a "familiar" spirit or animal(s) that they can call upon at any given moment? If yes, is one of these a dragon, unicorn, or phoenix? (Again. Stop). If you've answered yes to a few of these you're in the danger zone. The MS character turns many people away in disgust at fan fiction because they are flawless, beautiful, and everyone loves them. The main characters are all in love with him or her, they have super powers that cannot be rivaled and they always save the day in the end. They may have done some evil in their past but it was "never their fault" and they agonize over this constantly. Perhaps one of the main characters will help them forget their "bad past" by catching them up in a whirlwind romance that will instantly be accepted by all the cast members of the fiction they have placed themselves in(except of course if the other men or ladies are jealous because they are also in love with the MS). This leads me to the next point in fact: character rape. Do your characters all act the way they should? Is one a grumbling, angry type of person that magically falls in love with someone else and starts behaving differently? This is almost always a bad idea unless it's done in jest or is played off within character limits. I have seen well written yaoi (male love) fan fiction where an obviously straight man is paired with another just as obviously straight character and it's believable. It works because the characters all act perfectly within their scope of being: they still act the same way they would if they were in love with anyone. If one is a sourpuss he still behaves this way. A reader will sometimes forget something like 'but (he's) not gay!' if the piece is written good enough. I'll use something as an example here, though, without mentioning names because as it is I forget them. I was once reading a series of yaoi fiction by two writers that are very popular among One Piece fans. The coupling was Sanji and Zoro and they led into their romance very slowly, never deviating from how both men acted although one had to overlook the slow yaoi undertones that, once unleashed, became rampant. By now though I had read enough pieces (twenty or more) to have a certain feeling for the 'couple', although both are straight as can be in the real series. The writer(s) built up to this romance and love and it was almost beautiful as it was funny in some aspects. Then, all of a sudden in one fic they added another character into the 'fray': a female. Of course they should have a threesome! All the love and romance crumbled into dust as I was smacked in the face and brought up short by one idea. All at once it turned into smut. Point in fact: your readers can only take so much before they turn on you. I was willing to accept the not-gay men turned gay. That was all right, the love was still there and it was amusing. When the female cast member showed up for sex I couldn't accept it though. Both of these young men would suddenly ditch all the morality their characters were based on and bang another person together? Because they loved each other so much? What the ...?! Needless to say I told the writer what I felt in a precise way and was immediately bashed in the face by all their 'fans'. They couldn't accept the fact that they were character raping these two men and it turned a good series of stories into trash. If I didn't care about the characters it wouldn't have mattered - but wasn't that what they'd been trying to get me to do in the first place? I still shudder to think of the responses I got from their fans. If any of these people had written a fan fic I would cringe and whine in horror. "You" was spelled "u", everysinglesentencewasarunon in some cases and there was PuncTuatioN lIke ThiS within the texts. That's not pleasant to read by any means and in an entire story you can see very quickly why grammar is important. Even if there aren't sufficient line breaks it will ruin a piece for me. The last guideline I've crossed over in my earlier pieces. It's very easy to become smitten with a foreign language and use too much of it inside your work. My "Neopian Anthro Stories" are a horrid example of this, I'm ashamed to admit. There are full sentences in another language, swearing and even some pet names. The fiction is in English and that is how it should have stayed, for the most part. Mixing your story language with another is the key to disaster if not done properly. Most fan fiction is peppered with Japanese or another language, so much so that people don't know what is being said. This is annoying and even if you add asterisks* and a footnote or several on the bottom for translations it will cause many to stop reading. Keep it in one language. If your piece is in English, try to keep it all that way. Translate some of what they are saying into English and add it in, by all means. But don't just add a million Japanese words to make it "cool". Hopefully this wasn't a wasted essay-rant of my time. Maybe some folks will read it and get some pointers or maybe even decide to read my work. Hey, I can dream, can't I? The purpose of this was only to get a bit of things off my chest again though and it has accomplished what I set out to do. If there are any after effects I guess those will have to be considered 'perks'! | |
|
| Is it a disease?
Is it?
Men seem to think so.
What the hell. So, for all that didn't know, my xBox 360 died while I was playing Bioshock a day or so ago. I was furious, but since these stupid consoles do break all the time I realized sooner or later ours would. And I've read about it. I know what happens, how it gets so overheated (even though we had a fan) that the original soldering melts and the clamps fall off inside, etc etc.
Yes. I know what soldering is. My grandfather used to do it in our garage back in Jersey. I used to play with the little cooled-off bits of smooth, round metal that dripped off.
Anyway, I call up Customer Support. First thing that happens is I'm told, for repairs, I can go to support.xbox.com (or maybe it was repair). I hang up and try...it won't take my information, so it's useless. I call back and sit through an endless parade of Britney Spears/Techno Pop music banging in my head (I have such a headache and I still have it even now, gee I wonder why). When I finally get someone and tell "Paul" that my xBox died while I was playing Bioshock he stops.
Pauses.
"Wait...while YOU were playing?"
SHOCK AND SURPRISE! A FEMALE THAT PLAYS CREEPY GAMES, AND this was EVEN A SHOOTER GAME OMG!!111
I swear I should have hung up. The dude was nice enough, but he told me a completely different set of things than all the guys where my husband work at got told. He also said we wouldn't get our console back but get a refurbished one. The Service reps all told the guys they'd get their OWN back, and yes this matters, because you can't play the games, movies, have the avatars you bought or anything work on another console unless you're constantly signed into "LIVE". Which, btw, they f- you over into paying $60 a year per person, not just per console. I never had LIVE because of this, hubby did.
So now I have a headache and Zach has to call this place back today. Because I know they'll treat him differently because he's a guy. >.<
See why I hate the world? | |
|
| And now for something completely different: a review of sorts. You might call this a warning to Monty Python fans more than anything else, though.
I went yesterday to see a production of the musical "Spam a Lot". I've been a giant fan of the Pythons and their films and show for years, as has my husband. The tickets were a gift from his mother and father to us for the holidays last year. The older couple actually joined us because my sister in law is out of the state right now and she couldn't use her two tickets they had also purchased her.
The musical started out famously with the opening scene I remember and love so well. Coconuts, sparrows - what more could I desire? It seemed this was going to be a wonderful show and I settled back to enjoy myself. What was my horror on finding the rest of the plot completely skewed and twisted from the movie and, worse yet, Americanized.
I do realize the production would not have "made it big" in the United States if they used entirely British humor, for it's an acquired taste. What I do oppose is the flagrant warping of everything the Pythons were about in some slapdash musical that had no qualms about luring fans in with promises of "Python goodness". It was abominable. The plot was twined together in as smooth a way as they could do I suppose, with making the knights people that were otherwise minor characters in the movie. They "find" these people in the case of Sir Galahad, making use of the political Denis in the movie (surprise, that's really Galahad). They then tart things up with the Lady of the Lake in a song all about "making him a man" when Galahad is supposed to be chaste.
This is a trend throughout the musical. 'Scantily dressed girls for the win' seems to be their idea, but it was done in such a way that it wasn't funny. It saddened me and even made me angry to see the constant flesh for flesh's sake bits. The song they actually sing in the movie during the Camelot scene is ruined, among other things, by jiggling mounds of jello shaped like breasts carried by Vegas Showgirls ("round" table, get it? Camelot is a casino, of course).
I noticed my mother in law (who dislikes Monty Python) was laughing - at the non-Monty Python parts. Key point, there. This is why they added all those scenes with "Jews", half naked girls and oh yes, let's not forget the (surprise again) gay Launcelot, complete with sequined crotch piece and flamenco dancers. The addition of these parts had this "Monty Python Musical" tasting like a Mel Brook's film from start to finish than a good solid Python fling.
Disgusting.
I had to wash my mind to get the flavor out. Thank goodness that "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Colon Film for Theaters" came out that same day.
It was much more satisfying. In short, "Spam-a-Lot" ruined my love of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"; I won't be watching it for some time because all I can think of is the inane musical numbers and boobs flashing in front of my face. | |
|
| @#$% YOU MICRO$OFT! @#$% you to @#$%. @#$% you! We did have it longer than most people that fried theirs, having bought it in December. We ventilated it with a fan constantly and all that. Took good care of it. But Zach managed to get the game I'd been waiting like, a year for today - Bioshock -- from Toys R Us (Toys R Us is possibly going to get sued for releasing it before the date they were supposed to, and fined $15,000 or so for every copy they sold. O__O). I was so happy. Here was the game I'd wanted to play forever...not to mention Beautiful Katamari coming soon, in a couple months. The @#$% system had like, several games I played over the half a year or whatever. He's played tons. RIGHT when they start making games I wanna play Bioshock kills it. Really. I'd just hacked a bot and something else, getting 2 achievements...and the screen froze. Then when I rebooted we got THE RED RING OF DEATH. @#$$%. Micro$oft takes a couple weeks to send the box we have to mail it back in, and then a couple MONTHS to send us a "refurbished" one. -_- F- that. We pay $500 and this happens?! Plus at Microcenter we bought one of their plans because the dude said they'd fix it for us if we got the ring. THEY LIED. Zach called and they said nope. After the Xbox Warranty, then their plan goes into effect. The Xbox warranty is 3 f-ing years long. Gawd I hate this company. Why would you make a system that doesn't work and dies?!!! Why release it?! Plus, even though we get a "refurbed" system, we won't get our old one back - and the LIVE things we PAID for (videos, games) won't work on a new console? The hard drives don't like new concoles? Is this what I hear? Holy @#$% ing @#$%! | |
|
| I don't usually go "out" places like a movie theatre or musical like this, and now I remember why.
People.
They're rude, crude and look down on me - and I'm pretty damn well near deaf because I don't hear half the shit they say behind my back. Everyone else does and they're shocked. Well, that and the general crap.
So.
Spam-a-Lot.
If it comes to your town or city, and you love Monty Python and the movie The Holy Grail as much as I do - be prepared for a big disappointment. It sucked. It was Americanized half to death, the British humor taken almost completely out of it except for the "original" movie parts and the lead female was terrible. She grated on my nerves the whole time with her LOUD voice and well. Let's just say her part was the most Americanized. Half of it was singing about how she "didn't get enough time on stage".
Yeah.
The "Knights of the Round Table" song was made cheesy and campy - a Vegas thing, with showgirls carrying jello on trays made to look like titties, prams coming out and more showgirls getting out of them wearing even less, oh.
And showgirls.
I know they need them for the "male" audiences, I know that the British humor wouldn't have carried it far in America and all that crap, but it sucked for a Python fan that likes MP&THG.
Another part that kind of set us off bad was the fact that when we went up to the kiosk Zach's dad asked him what he wanted, and he got a t-shirt. Zach's dad got a beer stein/tankard thing. His mom doesn't like Monty Python so she didn't care. Me, the biggest fan? Nothing. I wasn't even asked. I mean, I wasn't about to be a whiny brat but I was going to get something to remember the night by at first, so I figured later I'd hop on out and get something. I never did though. I have my playbill and that's enough. Zach's mom even asked, 'What did Michelle get?' like...twice. And in the end I said 'I got a playbill'.
I'm pretty sure she'll say something about t him that later. It kind of hurt after they've always done stuff for us like that...and they didn't take Zach out for his birthday or even seem to give that much of a shit. I dunno.
So, more? Yes. There is more. The guy next to Zach was flipping his play book like a fan DURING THE MUSICAL, making flapping noises. He hit Zach with it once because it flew out of his hand! O__o He also would sing along and then started saying stuff like 'That's the announcer,' to his significant other. It was horrid, but Zach was next to him for a reason...he didn't want me to sit next to anyone for fear of me telling them to STFU like I would've.
LOL.
After this fiasco (Zach's Dad drove in the red mustang they have, and let me tell you he drives like crap. I thought we were gonna die the whole time, going 90+ down the freeway), we got home but we went to Wal-Mart to pick up the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie that just came out.
I felt like crap, and have pms bad, so we picked up all this junk food and stuff along with it. Oh yeah. And we didn't go to dinner or anything (we didn't sort of expect them to take us even though Zach's birthday had just passed the day before but still), although we left at 6 to get to someplace by an 8 showing...so we kind of were hungry. It was like, 1 am or something and we grabbed crap, the movie and went to check out.
The lady in front of us had a shit load of stuff but only so much money, so she kept telling the girl to ring it up and then taking stuff out of the cart she couldn't afford. This went on for some time and by now I'm actually physically ill and half fainting (my side was screaming due to those chairs we sat in for 2 and a half hours), but STILL SMILING to people and trying to be pleasant. We get through at last and then two snobby ladies come in line behind us. They looked like they were looking down their pretty little pointy noses at the fat chick buying all the junk food but I tried not to care. I couldn't hear anything anyway.
Zach could.
He got furious and told me later (dammit) they were snidely commenting on every single fucking item that went down the belt. 'Look at that, ew...hash browns? Ha ha ha' and all that crap. I just felt so bad at that point. All the rudeness, the people elbowing me and not saying excuse me and not moving aside when I said excuse me, the guy beside us, the people around us at the play (there were other rude ones)...and then that.
It just makes me hate people again.
Sidenote: DAY MADE BETTER. BIOSHOCK GAME AVAILABLE FOR ME TO PLAY AFTER ZACH GETS IT FROM TOYS R US. Yay yay yay yay!
Update: That night our Xbox 360 died while I was playing Bioshock.
| |
|
| Theft is such a stupid, ugly thing. Why would you do it with a character you supposedly LOVE TO DEATH HE IS THE GREATEST EVAH11!!11 Why? Well, as Elly, I find a lot of theft in ONE PIECE "fanartist" communities. There's a "famous" artist on DA, for instance, with hundreds of thousands of page hits to his gallery. He traces manga characters, flips a page and traces a different character on the same piece of paper, adds a "funny" word bubble and people flock to him like crazy. WTF yo. I've got original pieces that look stunningly like the characters themselves and no one gives a flying devil fruit. *imagines flying devil fruit and snickers* There's another gal I just found that (check this one off once) I manaed to get suspended. I remembered her from my "airlobster" account days. She right-clicks an official image, say, a pencil board or something, from someplace. Then she crops it (I'm guessing so that no one will know where it's from) and says she has "painted" or "sketched" it. No, no, no. WHO'S THE JUGGERNAUT B!TCH. I am. The Zoro Juggernaut, as it is xD ~ I can see an eyeball of the dear and know exactly where the image is from, so I retraced my steps, found the original and reported her. I do not do this to be a horrible person. I do not do this to stalk people or harass them. STEALING IS WRONG. Someone needs to be spanked. If their mommies and daddies didn't do a good enough job and if I catch them at it, I'm gonna deliver the blows. And I hit HARD. As a decent artist that doesn't usually get a lot of recognition I find it humiliating that thieved pictures always get more faves than my real pieces do. Traced stuff too. The problem with tracers is that DA, for one, allows it. The-Otaku does NOT (therefore most of my fan art can be found there now). The bigger problem with tracers is that they always always always INSIST that they have drawn an original piece if you confront them. Either that or they just let it slide that they copied a scene from a screen shot/traced two and mashed them together. People flock to their artwork and leave the real artists in the dust...and then the tracer/masher gets angry when a real artist says 'hey, isn't that from scene 154? You didn't come up with that all by yourself, you just copied it!' Copying is fine for practice. Don't get me wrong. If you want to figure out how to get a certain character down right, a good idea is to take an official image and try (without tracing) to get it as close as you can to the original. I'VE done this myself! But when I do I say so on the description part of the image. Be honest, damn it, people!  See this? It's from Cute9Angel on DA.  Ha, now see this. She got suspended because this isn't the first time she's lied and said something was her art when it clearly wasn't. I WILL SPANK YOU DOWN, liars! Don't even try it. Jeebus. | |
|
| These're sites that are using my fanart/have it up on their site. ^_||
GumGum.org Fanart: http://www.gumgum.org/gg_lay.php?x=fan/michelle
Neopets Fanart:Neopets has used a buttload of my art - and they have a ton of it on their servers. So, here's a listing of where my stuff is on their site. If you find a tracer or copier refer back to here >:3 Gallery Wins:http://www.neopets.com/art/gallery.phtml?place=60http://www.neopets.com/art/gallery.phtml?place=369http://www.neopets.com/art/gallery.phtml?place=333My Neopets Usernames: sanjisangel, ellysketchit, zorosangel, baraties, restaurant_baratie (side acc't BCing used to be legal.) To paste the BC Winner Art into your browser add this part first: http://content.neopets.com/beauty/images/w inners/ ...and then these bits after the beginning of that URL: (angel zafara, maraquan buzz) Sukiyanen-2005-12-16.gif Sukiyanen-2004-12-10.jpg Sukiyanen-2003-12-01.gif (cloud lenny, red nimmo) Oddendale-2005-12-09.gif Oddendale-2005-11-25.gif Oddendale-2003-10-27.gif Oddendale-2003-11-03.gif Oddendale-2003-11-10.gif Oddendale-2003-12-08.gif Oddendale-2004-06-04.gif Oddendale-2004-05-28.jpg Oddendale-2004-05-21.gif Oddendale-2004-05-14.gif Oddendale-2004-10-29.gif Oddendale-2004-11-05.gif Oddendale-2004-11-12.gif Oddendale-2004-11-19.gif Oddendale-2004-11-26.jpg Oddendale-2004-12-03.gif Oddendale-2004-12-10.gif Oddendale-2004-12-17.gif (mutant aisha) Baratie-2005-12-16.gif Baratie-2004-01-26.gif (yellow and island zafara) Sanjisuki-2006-01-13.gif Sanjisuki-2006-01-06.gif Sanjisuki-2005-12-30.jpg Sanjisuki-2005-12-16.jpg Sanjisuki-2005-12-09.gif Sanjisuki-2005-12-02.jpg Sanjisuki-2005-11-25.jpg Sanjisuki-2003-09-15.gif Sanjisuki-2003-09-22.gif Sanjisuki-2003-09-29.gif Sanjisuki-2003-10-06.gif Sanjisuki-2003-10-13.gif Sanjisuki-2003-10-20.gif Sanjisuki-2004-02-23.gif Sanjisuki-2004-08-27.gif Sanjisuki-2004-10-29.gif (jetsam/shark-looking flotsam) Arrlong-2006-02-03.gif (red scorchio) Potogasu-2006-02-03.gif (yellow quiggle) Bellamibane-2006-02-03.gif (yellow yurble) Enerteki-2005-12-23.gif (glowing meerca) Fennwick-2006-01-13.gif Fennwick-2005-12-09.jpg (orange gelert) Rubberufi-2006-01-20.gif (green/pirate elephante) Lollonais-2005-12-30.jpg Lollonais-2005-12-09.jpg (blue tuskaninny) Surlawthemai-2004-11-26.gif (white grundo) Zangling-2005-12-23.gif (green lupe) Zoronoa-2006-01-06.gif (xmas kougra) Sanjikeri-2006-02-10.gif Neopian Times shit: http://www166.neopets.com/ntimes/index_old.phtml?section=19016&week=157http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=169496&issue=224http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=185451&issue=229 | |
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
airlobster's journal
