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The Old Gumbie Cat
***PLEASE DO NOT REPOST MY IMAGES.*** I'm flattered, and link back to me if you want, but never take them and repost them off this site, anywhere. I can't control where my art is going on the internet if people are copy and pasting my stuff where ever they feel like. Project for Children's Book Illustration. We had to do a couple character studies for a book we had chosen to illustrate. My choice was Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was the basis for the musical Cats. This is Gus the theatre cat, who's old and shabby but likes to talk about the good old days when he was a star. |
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'Worrying is the flip side of thinking creatively.'
-Newsweek
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"Why do we need to think? Can't we just sit here and go BLBLBLBLBLB with our lips for a bit?"
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'Worrying is the flip side of thinking creatively.'
-Newsweek
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"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
I love Neil Perry.
Well, the reason I ask that is just to have better control over where my images are. For instance, I've just noticed that something I posted a few years ago has been picked up and passed around through various online galleries. It's flattering of course that someone likes it so much, but no one even mentioned to me that they had taken my image and reposted it, no one asked for my permission, and sometimes it was being reposted without any credit at all. The farther down the line it goes, the more it becomes just an anonymous internet image that people don't understand an artist somewhere owns. It's better for me if I have more control over where my stuff is.
Plus, not a lot of people know this, but if someone is reposting it using a image host such as photobucket, if you read the fine print, you will see that for a lot of these image hosting sites, they actually say that they own all the photos uploaded to them, and can do whatever they like with them! Now obviously the risk of photobucket taking some image of mine and profiting off of it somehow, is in all likelihood pretty small, but still, I don't think that's a good thing to do. I personally would not agree to this with my art. And no one should be allowed to make that decision for me, by hosting my images at photobucket.
It sounds paranoid I suppose, but to my sense, it's just a good policy for a professional artist, and you will probably run across other people who will stipulate the same thing. Links are good, we always like being linked to, and I doubt most people would mind if someone is collecting images from the internet to save in a personal reference collection.... but as for reposting, I would just prefer it if people wouldn't do it.
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"Why do we need to think? Can't we just sit here and go BLBLBLBLBLB with our lips for a bit?"
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