Brilliant Fan-freaking-tastic ♥♥♥
♥ but yesssss, Elias.... now complete with his own peri portrait to hang on my wall LOL.
I can hardly be credited, he's basically his own entity that just decided to take up residence in my brain one day
I can hardly be credited, he's basically his own entity that just decided to take up residence in my brain one day
Thank you, that’s what I aim for!!
The man we loooooooove
Gonna have to buy some pretty frames so they can hang side by side
Not as breathtaking as you areGosh your work is breathtaking peri!!!!
To add to this: It's not just the amount of time spent on the piece that makes the art so valuable. It's the blood, sweat, and tears spent restlessly getting to the skill level that the artist is at to be able to make a decent-looking piece. Each picture tells a story of an artist who started out just like the rest of us: Young, naive, and frankly awful at drawing. Those countless years of tireless practice are also counted in the value of the work. Thank you.
But it's so easy to give credit when you do so, and even if you can't remember where you saved a particular image from or who the artist was, it's easy enough to do a reverse image search to find it again. If Google isn't working for some reason (it wasn't when I tried it just now) there's sites like TinEye Reverse Search Engine that can also do it, and you can just drag the picture from its folder on your computer into the browser window.
From the RpN staff, if I may (ab)use my position and speak for them:
What Peri said. While we don't actively seek out uncredited works and make people add the credit in, we do explicitly suggest such credit under our anti-plagiarism rules. We can and have taken down art at the creator's request, upon receipt of proof that the person making the request is the creator. (This is a rare thing, though; mostly it seems, as Peri says, as if they just want to be properly credited.)
We want to encourage all artists, whether written, visual, or otherwise, in the expression of their creativity, not discourage them through the unauthorized use of their work.
*takes staff hat off*
And I say that as someone who's browsed the internet many a time in search of something close enough to match my image of an OC.
I know you guys can't go around and check every single post for credited artists, but I'm hoping enough people will read this and consider crediting if it simply hasn't crossed their mind as something they should be doing.
I am very guilty of this from my teens all the way up until now. My usual code of conduct is that I will post the image without credit and if someone likes it enough and asks who the artist is I will let them know. Which still is not the ideal situation. I think it has to do with the culture around online personas for years now. We are all shadowy mist behind our fake profile pictures and words. As many of us try to become who we aren't, but would like to be in real-life. It's so easy to just upload an image and forget about who created it because there is a sea of artists out there that we don't even give a second thought to the damage we cause by doing it.
The Dark Wizard
. If we can implement a sitewide "by artist" field to any images uploaded, including profile images, I believe many people would share the same sentiment that
peritwinkle
and many others share.
peritwinkle
I think that many people would like to expose their favorite artists but aren't sure how or are very oblivious to the implications of their actions. I recognize, and respect you for this post.
So glad I could do this for you.
