I'm an artist in aaa. I am not one of the artists that Hemophobia has copied off of since my style is not the silks filigree nature style they're into, but I've watched the copying happen over and over to people I consider friends. It's unnerving. I'm really glad a calmer and more nuanced conversation about this is happening on anonrerising instead of the shitshow in saltmine blog. I've always found that audience to be much more immature.
The problem is that H hasn't broken any rules. There's nothing against fawning over someone's work, or posting wips in the wip channel. And like people point out, 90% of the things they steal ARE highly generic traits (earring placement, horns).
So what can we do? What IS there to do? It's an asshole move to tell someone you're uncomfortable with them complimenting your skins or asking about your work. You can't bring up in chat how some design elements are really similar because it IS really generic until you realize their pattern of behavior. Blocking doesn't work, they can still see your messages. They haven't broken any rules, they won't get kicked out of the server. All they do is fawn over artists, self flagellate over how they won't ever get a copy of their amaaazing work, and then 15 minutes later post something clearly based of key design elements of the skin. It happened to Laeyein, Final, and Batfossil just off to top of my head. All amazing artists by the way. highly recommend their work.
It really isn't about the art stealing, their style is too unstyled to be much competition. It's about how creepy it is.
Re: Hemophobia
The problem is that H hasn't broken any rules. There's nothing against fawning over someone's work, or posting wips in the wip channel. And like people point out, 90% of the things they steal ARE highly generic traits (earring placement, horns).
So what can we do? What IS there to do? It's an asshole move to tell someone you're uncomfortable with them complimenting your skins or asking about your work. You can't bring up in chat how some design elements are really similar because it IS really generic until you realize their pattern of behavior. Blocking doesn't work, they can still see your messages. They haven't broken any rules, they won't get kicked out of the server. All they do is fawn over artists, self flagellate over how they won't ever get a copy of their amaaazing work, and then 15 minutes later post something clearly based of key design elements of the skin. It happened to Laeyein, Final, and Batfossil just off to top of my head. All amazing artists by the way. highly recommend their work.
It really isn't about the art stealing, their style is too unstyled to be much competition. It's about how creepy it is.