#dereksart

[derekwithapen]

[charlietheskonk]

Well thank you for your feedback and showing me where the image was from originally.

thank you for being receptive to it.  good luck.

[charlietheskonk]

Most of them are either of people I know, or tv stills hence no image reference. I originally thought as I write the name of the person in the image people can google it if they want to as I am not making any money from this it's just for fun/practice.

are you hoping to one day be taken seriously for your art?  properly source other people's work.

even if you're not looking to one day be an artist.  source other people's work.

in the bjd community, we have seen this sort of thing happen before:  some rando wannabe artist starts stealing people's photos of dolls, throws some filters or vectors/traces over them, and claims them as their own "art".  there's mijn schatje.  and matthew christopher nelson--who is still fucking doing this, even after the community nailed him for it.  just don't start down this road, buddy.

tv still taken from an episode?  say that in your post about the image.  "tv still taken from episode blahblah of blahblahblah."  best course would be to take the photos yourself, but if you can't do that, you need to state your source.

tl;dr:  it doesn't matter.  properly source other people's work.

[charlietheskonk]

Hello Charlie, I will add a link to the description so people can find the source image. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I wasn't intending to steal other peoples art.

that would definitely be a good start.  if none of the base photos that you have vectored over are your own work, i would suggest that you source them all.