Caemgen

No drinking? Blasphemy!!

Errr, I meant Root Beers?

I meant bears? (Just not the drop kind, they're not very social.)

I meant bares? (doesn't every guy get a dozen nude models on their birthday?)

errr, look out, Juggy's behind ya!
(*runs off*)

WOot woot!! Off Thursday and able to catch this!

Pretty sweet... I'd recognize that big blockhead anywhere!

His one is easy: Coma

Less butt piracey and getting shanked ftw!

Happy birthday!!!

Nothing soothes the pain of getting older like a good steak dinner and a few dozen beers!

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I had assumed you meant danced... 0,o

First initial sketch for a new piece I am excited about...



Artist can be found here: http://loish.deviantart.com/. Not typical superhero style but I really enjoy her works...

Foo, I think it would be more shocking if there was someone you hadn't whacked it to...

As long as it's all you're wearing I don't think I'd mind much either way!

You're answer is dependant upon a "if" which in my eyes is a violation of one of your rules. As such, I discredit your answer!!

A) Superman

X-Ray vision - 'Nuff said.

Well, like I said, looks not an issue for me since I'm the only one who uses the "computer room" any my tower sits on a little shelf that hangs down from the desk almost to floor level... So it would seem B was right for me...

Of course when some asks "You paid how much??" it's easier to explain when it looks mega cool

My problem with the latest ones is the same problem I had with the previous ones - They make me want to squeel "awwwwwww cute!" like a twelve year old girl... And that just sit well with my view of myself as a grumpy, gruff, miserable old man!

So with that in mind, GET OFF MY LAWN and go draw or something! Sheesh, kids these days have no respect... Back in my day if we wanted art we had to scrape rocks againt the cave walls and make stick figures!

All else being equal, and having seen how perty CR does the wires and all. I'd go with A

Though I'd also tell him to go with whatever was easiest and/or most convienent since my comp isn't anywhere to be admired by anyone but me...

No problem man... But definitely wanted to be clear on the whole story as I don't mean my comments to harm anyones rep, specially not someone they weren't about at all.

I really shouldn't post when I've been up 30+ hours

to be clear: the two works I referred to were not Juggertha's nor done by him.

the situation was this:
I sent an inquiry letter for three commission pieces to an artist on DA. This artist is not on this forum (far as I know). The artist jumped right into the first sketch while I was waiting to see if he had room for me or not. (I've since started either not including references in such inquiry notes or provide all info...)

So, the first sketch wasn't really what I was looking for. I Rolf the artist it was ok though and stated what kind of poses I was looking for in the other two. The artist decided to do entirely new lines for the first sketch and asked exactly what poses I wanted for the other two... I searched and found two images from comic characters similiar to mine, sent them to the artist and said "something like these..."

The final images were exactly like those.

I love them. The art is awesome, the poses totally fit my toons, color is great... Awesome pics.

Still, there was the expectation the artist would put his own spin on them rather than do replica poses but with my characters...

The artist has a full gallery of amazing work, I've no doubt he can be 100% original. It could have been frustration over the first misunderstanding or possibly language issues since English is not his native tongue...

Anyway, I love the pieces, like I've said, but when this thread started touching on the topic I recognized it as something I had thought about recently and started babbling. I should have been clearer from the out go that my instance had nothing at all to do with Juggy.



And as I was trying to say but not have been clear on, I believe the question of stolen or not, copied or not, alright or not depends greatly on the reason it was done and the intended use of it once done...

I don't care one whit if a 5 year old uses tracing paper to copy an image and then runs to mommy excited about his drawing...

I do care if a professional artist mimics anothers work as exact as possible and tries to pass it off as uniquely their own.

In between, for me, there are lots of shades of gray.

The above described scenario is the one I meant when I said in my first post that I've decided I have no problem with it. There was money involved but this guy isn't making a living off of doing such mimics, there was also probably the language issue which may have had him thinking it was exactly what I wanted and there is no using the pieces for publication or wide distribution or the like... I just see it as a fan piece using elements from two things I'm a fan off, this game and comics...

My use of stolen was probably a bad choice of words... and I wasn't thinking of the Juggy piece in this thread so much as the two I mentioned that I got.

As you say, it can go from theft to homage to just using it as a starting point to create an entirely different image altogether. This thread just reminded me of my two pieces and so I started babbling

Couple of my favorite pieces basically had the poses stolen from other works.. I've mixed feelings on it when the art is being done for profit but since they're not done for publication or wide distribution or anything I think I mainly fall on the "I'm ok with it" side of the fence.

Heh, I think you may have voted just as the buzzer went off. TA may have to go to the replay booth to see which happened first

Hmmm, I really do need to go back and clean up some typo's and other similiar flaws in my MA arc....