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Linda Jonsson
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About my photos

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If you want to use my photos as references for your artwork, please ask first. I'll usually allow it, but I do appreciate people asking and not just assuming... :)

Thanks!
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You gotta check this out... a deviant artist (who had permission) used one of my photos of Jin as reference for this amazing painting! Check it out!

youngfang.deviantart.com/art/F…

How cool is THAT!? =D I just had to show you...



The art theft thing from earlier has been resolved... for now. Wich is also great. :)
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The person still insists they never touched my work and is showing one of their own drawings (if it is theirs, who the hell knows by now) claiming THAT is the one they are using but if you look at the new piece, it is not quite the same as the old one that she posted right beside it (hilarious!) because it STILL HAS ELEMENTS of my drawing. Wich is retarded, why didn't they just use their own art as it was, no manipulation? Oh well. Link to her updated piece...

alizarin-crimson.deviantart.co…

Left part is still -all- mine. Proof:

www.arvaker.com/overlay1.jpg

www.arvaker.com/overlay2.jpg

many thanks to a fellow deviant whos name I won't drag into this mess

And here I marked the most obvious parts of my drawing, as you can see the border is even the same color... only slightly colder if you colorpick it, because as you can see on my parts of the drawing she has done the -whole thing- a bit coldercompared to mine. I wish I had bothered to save the intial version she posted, the straight off theft with my wolf on both sides. Didn't expect this to happen though, I've never met someone who seems to believe their own lies like this.

www.arvaker.com/proof2.jpg

And all she needed to do to get my permission was to ask. Sigh.
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I tend to be very generous about letting people use my work. All I demand is that you ask for my permission BEFORE you use something, and that you don't go around claiming my work as yours just straight off. I've let people copy my artwork, manipulate my photos, post my original works together with their poetry and so on and it's never really been any serious problems.

Until now.

I got a note about a day ago from a fellow deviant who had found my most popular piece - the wolf portrait - in another deviants gallery, the signature edited out and the saturation slightly changed but still MY WORK. This person claimed (and still claims) that this is his/her original work, making up some kind of background story saying it was drawn back in 98 or whatever, having taken the reference shot themselves and so on. It's a blatant lie, I have the reference in a drawer even after all these years... I can show it to anyone who wishes to see it.

Anyway, I reported the incident and DA removed their artwork. A day later the deviant posted a 'new' version, this time she or he has used what I am for obvious reasons guessing is another deviants work manipulated to fit with my drawing (and the left side is still all my work, just mirrored and inverted with some other shitty standard filter added). I doubt she has permission to use the other deviants drawing but I haven't been able to find the original artist so I am calling out to you guys since I know a lot of you love wolves and art involving them... hopefully one of you will recognise the artist who did the face for the right part of the deviation found here :

alizarin-crimson.deviantart.co…

Please help me find the original artist so that he or she may report this. If you open the "drawing" in PS and change the contrast/brightness you can see what a sloppy editing job it is, even a part of the signature is left in the corner... sheesh...

Pretty crappy manipulation job for a photo manipulator (wich the deviant is, based on the rest of the gallery)

It is sad to see someone insisting on claiming my work for their own with such intensity, it's almost as if he or she believes it him/herself. And funny how all it would have taken to avoid this mess is a simple note asking 'may I use your work', and perhaps a bit of CREDIT.

Yeah, don't piss me off...
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If you want to use any of my photos as reference, or for manipulations etc; please drop me a note first and ask for permission! I will probably say yes but it's nice to ask first. :)
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