- Posted
- Jan 18th 2005
Since when does an artist own a style? Seriously. Can you trademark and copyright them now? Can you sue someone because...oh mygosh...their elbows look just like how I draw my elbows! BASTARDS! They should be hung, and then shot fifty times, and then the remains of their carcasses should be fed to dogs because they're filthy mother fucking baby killing shit eating art thieves who like to copy peoples styles OH THE HUMANITY!
But honestly. This is pissing me off, all these people moaning because people are 'copying their style' Especially when said persons style looks very borrowed from another famous person's style. You never hear the folks at Disney screaming and crying and saying "Oh, all these awful people, they're all copying my style, they're so horrible, why don't they stop hurting me like this?"
Or maybe I don't care about this because I am not 'talented' like other people. And because I don't really have a set style. Some drawings, I will draw things a little differently than on other drawings. I guess that makes me a filthy thief because I'm stealing from someone else oh no.
In short...copying someone's style does not equal art thievery. It's a more of a form of FLATTERY. By imitiating, they are pretty much saying "HEY YOU FRIGGIN ROCK I LOVE YOU WITH TEN THOUSAND MOON BEAMS AND A PANDA BEAR"
Anyway, after copying for a while, they'll start to find their own style and move on. It's not a big friggin deal. EVERYONE starts off copying a style that they like, and eventually they start to come up with their own style along the way. So shut up. GAWD.
Also, this just in: Apparantly I'm not leaving Sheezy. How lame am I? *shakes fist at Tupperware ad*
Hellbender DX Says:
You know what? I highly agree with you about what you said.
Outlaw Ink Says:
Tell it, sister! Amen! Unless you have grown up in a bubble, exposed to no media of any kind, and invented your art supplies out of toenail clippings and paint peelings, you have no right to say that your style is completely unique and no one can mimic you.
Kindles Says:
Oy...Tho' I remember when I was trying to learn to draw, I tried staying far away from other people's styles. But I'd always try and do shitty gift art of characters of people I admired but never scanned 'em.
like Klar.
Although, I wouldn't complain if someone had a style similar to mine. I would never see it as a compliment like most people say it's supposed to be, because if it was, they'd mention the style their copying in some way, and most people don't, tho', I might end up taking it up with them privately if it gets too similar. But if their art is cruddy, I'll leave it alone. :}
But yeah, I understand the changing style thing. Before recently I couldn't draw two pictures even remotely similar for some reason. All the features of the face would end up drawn in another way and it was hard to just look at a picture and go "hurr...Bri drew it" unless it was like one of those crappy chibi things. Mmmmyeah. I'm not going to read over what I just typed or finish it off properly. D:
dtovar922 Says:
I loved it when Metallica tried to copyright this certain chord they frequently use in their music. This was awhile back.
I want to copyright the Letter "F" since so many people have been using it recently here! lol!
kandlin Says:
The aspects of the internet seem to bring out a wide variaty of stupidity in the general user. I guess when some people get a bit of fame for doing a certain thing, they become way too definsive, to the point of being psychotic.
Hopefuly they will grow out of it. I remember constantly hearing one of my favoirite artists complaine about people doing their style, but she seemed to grow out of it.