Yesterday I discovered that an artist had traced my art and was planning to make pins out of them. Art theft is bad enough, but stealing art for commercial use? Big yikes. I confronted her and while she did apologize and delete the posts, she only admitted to referencing my work rather than straight up tracing it. And she is deleting all comments calling her out on it.
I was going to leave it alone, but then I found out she has done this to multiple other artists in the past. While she does make some adjustments to the designs, it’s obvious enough that I could directly tell what the original image was. And she has never credited the original artist for any of these.
I never make public call outs like this, but since she is actually profiting and making these for commercial use I feel it is justified in this case. This person has been confronted by others in the past yet she continues to steal, so clearly she hasn’t learned anything (i talked to an artist who confronted her as recently as last month).
She is called @guillmon9005 on Instagram, and her shop account is called @Chenxira - she also has a Patreon account.
I don’t want any harassment to be sent her way, I just want this information to be public. I don’t think it’s okay that she has been able to continue for this long without ever addressing the situation. Perhaps you disagree with me and don’t consider this theft, which is ok! But even so, it’s shady to be so heavily inspired by someone else and not even giving them credit for it.
