hi coast ! please feel free to not respond at all to this. you blocked me a few years back on toyhouse - most likely because i was taking too much inspiration from your creations... i stumbled opon some of your art again about a week ago, and thought i would just apologise for making you uncomfortable all those years back. you were definitely my biggest inspiration at the time. the emphasis that you put into loving your individuality and expressing yourself with your art is something that i deeply admire and resonate with in my own art journey, and is only something that i learnt for myself after you blocked me. Im sorry that it took me making you uncomfortable for me to learn that, especially because i remember it being a prevelant issue you experienced. thank u for your time, i hope this doesnt cross a boundary of yours, i apologise sincerely if it does. i wish u the best on ur art journey!!! <3
Heya anon! You’re good, no hard feelings. It’s not so much the inspiration that bothers me, in fact, I encourage it! I just want to be credited and interacted with if so. I personally find it weird for people to take heavy inspiration from my content and not even follow my accounts or like my posts… that’s my only complaint in regard to inspiration/parody art.
Transparency with followers is what I value, and there is absolutely no shame in adopting methods from your favorite artists! Just be sure to express that to those artists in some shape or form, I’m certain many artists share my feelings.