moondial

So, this evening I logged onto DeviantArt and I immediately found out another Deviant took the character from my image, Leaning: They cut her out of the background, flipped her over, and pasted her onto another background. Of course, they couldn't get rid of the watermark or the copyright notice underneath it - so if you look at their picture, you'll immediately see the image was flipped, since the DA logo is also flipped, and underneath it, albeit a bit blurred, you can see the reversed copyright notice with my DA name in it. Now, in principle, if someone reaches out and asks nicely, and gives credit, I wouldn't necessarily mind (unless they tried to sell it). However, I am a bit irked by the fact this person didn't ask, didn't give credit, hacked the picture into pieces, and I only found out because it popped into my feed. I reached out to themprivately and asked them to take the piece down - hence why I'm not naming names or including links to his picture. I'd like to believe

Good Night, everyone who follows me. DeviantArt is changing its rules. Summarizing here, any sensualized art of fictional characters who are canonically under 18 is now completely prohibited, even if the characters have been aged up, and your DA account may be banned without prior notice. So I'm letting everyone know that I'll need to delete several of my artworks featuring characters like Supergirl and even Bulma and Chichi in their classic outfits, for example. #art #illustration #artist #digitalartist