#antiarttheft

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Nads6969 Commission Victim - Dedizenoflight

Dedizenoflight is the second half to the issues explained here since she was given this:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Commiss-Sailor-Dark-Star-327764703

Which had in fact been traced off of this:

https://www.deviantart.com/yettyen/art/C-Spreefee-pt-3-283038278

And not only did this person get traced artwork for their money, they also got blocked for expressing displeasure at paying for stolen work:

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That feeling when your art has been stolen (again)

A reaction GIF by me, Thoughts conveyed by my own character, Gavron.

Seriously all, don’t do it.

Links to other anti-art-theft works: Comic & Poster

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Nads6969 Victim 119 - Men of Apple

This:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Sister-Love-Colored-199684529

And this:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Sister-Love-Lineart-199646018

Traced off of this:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/109034

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Nads6969 Victim 8 - Phianna/PhinyxRose

As promised, here is the entry for Victim #8 Phianna/PhinyxRose.

This PAID COMMISSION (i.e. someone paid for this):

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Commiss-Neon-Earth-and-Terra-336067616

Traced off of this:

https://www.deviantart.com/phianna/art/The-Sailor-Moon-V-September-256387837

Yet another example of Ms. Stepputat’s greed and dishonesty, and how she is incapable of creating her own work so she has to use the artwork of others in her so-called “commissions.” BIG thanks to FireFlea-San for helping me find this.

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Nads6969 Victim 118 - Hoshinazuna

This:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Elfic-Senshis-NSG-The-Future-Front-593006821

Traced from this:

https://www.zerochan.net/1746865

Credited to Hoshizuna on Pixiv per Saucenao (they’ve taken theirs down, probably due to theft):

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Nads6969 Victim 117 - RafusChan

This:

https://s1132.photobucket.com/user/nads6969/media/Images/Duos%20and%20Lovers/ChibiUsaandChibiUsa2nd.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7

Traced from this:

https://www.deviantart.com/rafuschan/art/Chibiusa-DarkLight-169712379

 Ms. Stepputat posts this:

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/169712379/1758153501

 Which isn’t a request for permission to use the piece.  She just decided to use it, and tell the artist afterwards.  Needless to say, it’s not on Deviantart anymore.  I wonder why?

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Nads6969 Commission Victim - TaffyBratz

TaffyBratz was one of many unfortunate people to commission Ms. Stepputat, hoping for a nice, original, creative piece of work starring her OCs.

So they were given this:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Commission-TaffyBratz-603809351

This looked weird to me for many reasons.

For one thing, the perspective is ALL fucked up.  Either those senshi in front are the Amazon Duo (a group the Amazon Trio and the Amazon Quartet don’t like to talk about), or the couple in the background are goddamn hobbits.

So when my artist-sense got tingling, I started searching and found something.  Somethings, actually.

Princess Endymion/Touko (left) and Sailor Sun (right) look aaaaaaaaaawfully familiar.  Because they are.  They are traced from Jupiter and Venus:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/37928821839331275/

https://vinylls.tumblr.com/post/92983082953

The brunette in the back’s gown appears to have been traced off of this by JackoWCastillo:

https://www.zerochan.net/1789924

And the fellow in the back is traced off of Prince Endymion’s settei:

Going off of her commission prices, Ms. Stepputat possibly charged 1750 points for this, which is the equivalent of $22.

TaffyBratz also received this:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/C-Sailor-Sun-2-of-3-567240208

And this:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/C-Sailor-Earth-1-of-3-565222322

Which were traced off of this:

https://www.deviantart.com/yettyen/art/Commish-Sawai-Cerecere-277387037

And this:

https://www.deviantart.com/yettyen/art/Commish-Sawaivesta-277386996

So poor TaffyBratz got suckered into paying for “commissions” made from tracing official work and Yettyen’s work, which also means that Yettyen could have gotten some money for a commission instead of Ms. Stepputat.

I wonder if this could serve as evidence in a copyright infringement case, since there technically was an exchange of funds for dishonestly produced work?

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Nads6969 Victim 58 - TiffanyMarsou

Lots of stuff here for this one.

This conversation is what warned TiffanyMarsou that Ms. Stepputat had decided to use her art without permission:

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/369640488/3106493739

This (has since been taken down):

https://www.deviantart.com/art/Collumn-Princess-Mercury-380754904

Was traced off of this:

https://www.deviantart.com/tiffanymarsou/art/the-princess-of-Mercury-369640488

Comparison here:

https://www.deviantart.com/antidramaqueens/art/Random-Trace2-381151376

This work had also been traced without permission:

https://www.deviantart.com/tiffanymarsou/art/the-princess-of-Neptune-362745653

To create this:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Artrade-5-of-5-Princess-Guardian-Neo-Moon-525836749

And this:

And once again, TiffanyMarsou was notified:

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/362745653/3108507846

This work was also traced, AGAIN without permission:

https://www.deviantart.com/tiffanymarsou/art/the-princess-of-Jupiter-368671332

Here’s the comment thread notifying TiffanyMarsou:

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/368671332/3782977047

And here is the infringing work itself:

https://nads6969.deviantart.com/art/Princess-Guardian-Jupiter-418889842

As a matter of fact, most of TiffanyMarsou’s work was traced to create several more infringing works because Ms. Stepputat didn’t learn her lesson the first three times to ask permission to use her work, AND provide credit.

This:

https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969/art/Artrade-4-Princess-Guardian-Yumika-496831155

Body traced from this:

https://www.deviantart.com/tiffanymarsou/art/the-princess-of-the-Moon-369642645

Also, take a look at the comment section on the Princess Mercury piece by TiffanyMarsou:

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/381180790/3110015199

MermaidWitch94 includes this snip of Ms. Stepputat chewing someone out for having the audacity to defend someone else’s work from her awful traces:

https://sta.sh/01qid8blkkur

That’s right everyone. Don’t ever take time out of your day to stand up for people who are being disrespected and wronged.  Just shut up.  Never defend others.  Ever.

https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/381180790/3111749959

Must be nice to be unemployed and have half a day to trace other people’s work.

So here we have a comment from Ms. Stepputat from 2013, where she acknowledges that this entire debacle is about her not crediting people, and how it would more than likely stop if she credited people AND got permission to trace their work.

She doesn’t seem to acknowledge the one way that would “stop all the drama…”  STOP TRACING OTHER PEOPLE’S SHIT.