Heh, Andy Warhol much?

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That is SOOOOOO wrong!

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I hatehatehatehatehateHATEEE those dang flans. D8

I know! Spread the word if you can!

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よるべない心二つ寄り添う頃に
本当の悲しみがほら翼広げて

Oblivious.

Disagree.

Some of those overlays are very misleading. It's hard to tell because of the photos (what with them being in 3D and all) but the lines don't always match which leads me to question if the artist really didn't just use these images as reference.

That said, no, I don't label this artist as an Art Thief, even if she did trace those dolls. Why? Because the end result is that she clearly personalizes her work, and even if she did a bit of tracing it was clearly used as a means to better represent a part of her work; she wasn't necessarily stealing the subject or the mood of the photos. Tracing is only really a problem when the tracer clearly wanted to re-represent the entire artwork it was tracing, as in stealing its concepts, it's subjects, it's ambiance etc (unless it was for study reasons of course). Here the artist just used Doll faces as a part of her picture but to create something completely different, which imo and from what I've been taught is actually ok. Although I will admit that this is very much subject to debate.

I mean, what about collages? It's a form of art which uses existing photos/images only and gathers the lot together to create a new, original art piece. This is very much like what this artist is doing, and she's a lot more tamer.

Then again I find the artist's conduct pretty stupid and overall lousy - yes she could have cited her sources but that isn't evne the issue, it's her just not justifying her way of work. She's not very good at defending herself I find.

Yes, you raise alot of valid points. However the main uproar here is that, she has used company stock images without permission, and is profiting off of them, when the said company's policies clearly state that their images are not to be used for commercial purposes or for profit. If she were doing it for herself and not profiting OR denying the fact that the photos are of BJD [which she did, in the beginning], the community would not be so angry with her. She has also used photos from private collections [owners] without permission as well, and the said owners are not quite happy with the fact that they were not asked at all; not to mention the amount of money being made.

Also, the elements in her work may not entirely be hers - many of them are cliparts or vector works done by other artists, and in one of them, there's a silhouette of a Totoro. Studio Ghibli has already been contacted about this and if she did ask permission to use their character, it's alright. But if she has not, it's not okay because what she is doing is not fanart.

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よるべない心二つ寄り添う頃に
本当の悲しみがほら翼広げて

Oblivious.

Dun worry, I shall



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I hatehatehatehatehateHATEEE those dang flans. D8