comments neededAccording to this person, there are two deviations which I "copied" from her. I will take the time to analyze and compare these two.
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Compare the 2 drawings. Now the 2 quite clearly have no character reference, style or clothing similarity whatsoever. One is sitting on a cookie, the other is "attacking" a glass of milk tea. And just some background, I was on a milk tea high when I came up with the concept for the drawing. I am a milk tea addict and yes, if you read my artist's comments, I did dream of a huge canister of milk tea.
Now this girl is saying (offline) that I copied the "concept." "Her concept." Her evidence? That the second one was made several weeks after the first. Not even touching on the fact that the concepts for the individual drawings have almost no resemblance to each other, what makes her think that she's so original? What's the concept she's referring to, anyway? 2 chibis that are doing something to food? Hasn't that been done before?
Hmmm.
Now, if we follow her logic then, seeing as these three deviations (with the SAME CONCEPT of chibis that are doing something to food) have all been done even before this girl's deviation, doesn't that make her a copycat too? If her logic is even VALID, that is?
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Now what happened here was what really pissed me off. Apparently this girl GROUP MESSAGED all her friends with links to both deviations, claiming that I blatantly ripped her off. Strike two. Next, her friend (HER FRIEND, NOT HER) comments that I'm a copycat. Strike three.
Again, compare the two deviations. The only similarities I see between the two deviations are the socks, boots and green theme. Are socks, boots and the color green so original that coming up with an outfit with those elements involved is considered "copying?"
What really ticks me off is that the outfit in Sonia wasn't even designed by this girl. It's one of the default outfits for Bellato girls in the MMORPG RF Online-- which we both played, by the way, and it's also the outfit MY character is wearing. So I don't get why she's accusing me of copying something from her which she didn't even design herself.
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Another thing. What this girl is accusing me of is that everything she does, I do.
For example, she draws a chibi with food, I draw a chibi with food = I'm copying her.
She draws something with outfit A, I draw something wearing something akinly similar to outfit A = I'm copying her.
Okay. Is it just me or is that really silly? Okay. We all know art, ideas and minsets are influenced by external factors and not just internal. I don't know what goes on in her mind, but yes, if you look at our backgrounds we have the same interests. We're being influenced by these common interests so it's not impossible that we come up with something remotely similar.
Let's take this example: Person A and person B watch Naruto on the same day, different places. Person A draws Hinata. Person B draws Sakura. Does that make Person B a copycat?
If again we follow her logic, do I have to change my interests, what I like, my entire personality just so she doesn't accuse me of being a copycat?
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Again, I'm not pissed off because someone is accusing me of copying something. What I'm pissed off about is this person tells everyone she knows and everyone I know OFFLINE, my REAL friends, that I copied her. It's not right. My boyfriend got into a fight with his friends because his friends were saying things about me which are NOT true.
It's the first time I have had to defend myself from these kinds of attacks and frankly, I don't feel good about it. I just wish that if this girl has issues with me, she tells me straight to my face and not go around backstabbing people. I'm just clearing my name.
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I'm going to fly.. and DON'T YOU FORGET IT *LMAO*
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First of all, your little buddy there has some insecurity issues. Rather than becoming pissed at her, you should pity her for her ignorance and let her be. These matters do not deserve your time (unless they get quite out of hand, of course, it's time to have a srs little talk with her)
Secondly, people who rely on other people to confront the people they have issues with are afraid to confront the troubles they themselves created and may give off the idea that she cannot fight for herself.
Thirdly, I don't believe there's even originality in the internet haha XD What you may think that it's never done before may have been done before. All art are unique and they each have their own distinct character, unless, well, you just changed the color of one or more parts of the artwork -- that could be considered art stealing. If she's fussing over how much she thinks you're stealing her work, advise her to look up the definition of art stealing, or anything at all, before she comes to a conclusion. She'd better know what she's accusing you or you can file a libel case against her haha!
More into the art stealing case... if she drew an RF Online character and claimed the design to be hers, then she's the one art stealing, most definitely.
Finally, I hope you were wise enough not to do the same thing she is doing and create false accusations about her, or the usual bitchy name calling. It's never wise to do so, because you're stooping down to her level, and you wouldn't want that. Instead, let her be in her own little issues, because if you think that you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to be guilty about. Let her sleep with her rage in her heart, while you wallow in your happy dreams. Now ain't that nice?
This was long, but I hope this helped. I've heard and experienced so much of these kinds of issues.
Good luck there, konsensya... Like your name, hayaan mo syang makonsensya haha! And may you learn from this experience.
This is merely a piece of advice for you, and these are simply my thoughts on the matter... so you are free to choose whether to follow it or not. But remember, every action has a consequence c:
Ciao~
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i agree with everything you said. at first i tried not to make the issue bigger by doing something immature, but later on i found it's no big deal. i guess you could say i've let go na. i mean, no matter what angle you look at the issue from, she'll be in the wrong talaga.
again, thanks.
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so is the issue over for you then? does she still bug you?
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