Honestly, I don't get this sentiment, unless I'm trying to take credit for the art it should go without saying that it isn't mine. Don't get me wrong I'll credit an artist I've had partners make me pictures of my OC's and I'll credit them in heartbeat when I use them even though they've all told me I don't have to because it's my character. However, I personally don't see the point in crediting for every single little thing, I think credit is only really required if you're garnering some type of fame off it or profiting in some kind of way...not when you're literally more or less playing a game. If they're really interested in who the original artist is image search is a thing and they can do it their gosh dang selves.
This entirely! Also, if you can't commission an artist there are plenty of other ways to make faceclaims for your characters, such as Picrews!
Its more the hostility when something crops up like... how these people react when you can't find it like you actually talked nicely there's other who rip your head off for it
Yeah no not really appropriate dude
i'm a little confused by this point. i definitely agree, people shouldn't be super rude about it, but i also think the opinion that you should always put the effort into crediting any art you use isn't super controversial. if you can't find the credit, simply don't use it and find something else. what bastion said is very spot on:
Ending point isn't the point of the thread nor is it appropriate as for crediting you'd be suprsied but its not commo practice to force people to do it and then be incredibly insulting and rude about it when you're unable to find it becuse shock horror some people aren't artist and work with finding images
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean these resources don't work for what you want for your characters. That's fine! Obviously they won't work for everyone.
once again, i'm not really understanding your point; i disagree that their post and points in response to our posts is inappropriate, they're providing their opinion on the current topic as well. as for your point, i already stated my opinion: of course, people shouldn't be rude, but consider either just crediting the art you use or don't use it at all since you don't know who made it.
Yeah that is very annoying
In my experience most people don't use OC's as FC's and most OC's I see literally has the artist name or a water mark on it. Personally I feel like of you're too lazy to read the literal picture in front of your face then you really weren't interested in the art or the artist, to begin with, and maybe it's just me but if I am personally interested in a piece of art I will reverse google image search it.once again, i'm not really understanding your point; i disagree that their post and points in response to our posts is inappropriate, they're providing their opinion on the current topic as well. as for your point, i already stated my opinion: of course, people shouldn't be rude, but consider either just crediting the art you use or don't use it at all since you don't know who made it.
Maybe this is just a matter of the art forms being different, but as an aspiring comic writer, I'd be ecstatic if I made a character people liked enough to RP.
I'm sure you're not the only person who would find it flattering to have their character used by someone else.
Coco Adel
if you like the art enough to use it as a face claim, why don't you care enough to credit the artist despite saying reverse image searching is easy?
Well first of all I have my art of my own OC's which I give credit for, pretty sure I clearly state that already. Secondly, as I said typically from what I've seen myself included people don't typically use OC's as FC's it's typically fanart or official concept art, and the FC's that I've seen that are OC's again either have the artist signature on it, their name or a watermark that is clear as day to see so I feel like if you're too lazy to look at the dang picture and see the name of the artist staring you in the face you really didn't care too much about it anyway.
Also, when your say people don't use OCs as face claims, do you mean they're only using fanart? In that case, yeah it's not so bad. I still think the minimum you can do is credit the artist to show you actually respect the work they put into creating the artwork.
However, in my experience, people use random art they find online with no reference for who the subject is. A little bit of digging often reveals it's an OC, or even a self-portrait. When an artist draws a random subject, it's usually something personal to them. Sometimes even one-off drawings where they never draw or use the character again are something incredibly precious to the artist.
2 is very subjective if your interested you can go look for it
If you don't care enough to find out who the artist is, don't use the art. Simple as that.
1. Okay when did I say it was on my partner to find my source? nowhere do you see that whatsoever. I said that I meaning me do not feel the need to pester other people about art that I am interested in because I will look for it myself.
Why do you feel the need to defend people using art without giving the artist credit?
Again you keep stating things I never said, at no point did I say that you shouldn't give credit. However, I think it's a bit hyperbolic to believe that people are out here trying not steal from an artist just because they use a picture as an FC as it completely ignores the spirit of what an FC is. Most logical people already know the FC does not belong not the user, it is being used for what is essentially an RPG you could even see it as a form of fan fiction. Now there isn't an issue with someone asking you to give an artist credit, but by no means does that give you the right to be an asshat while doing it. If being rude is your first response I don't care if they forgot or didn't think to credit because believe it or not most people's intention was not to hurt you to try to steal from you, it literally may have just slipped their minds because of the very culture of roleplay using pictures as FC's is seen as harmless so if your first reaction is to go from 0-100 without even trying to talk to the person civilly the yes you are wrong.
