Quote from: HuDaFuK on Sep 16, 2021, 03:05:29 PM
Quote from: Engineer on Sep 16, 2021, 02:32:14 PMIf it was just bad art, I wouldn't have anything to say.
The problem is that it's largely a misrepresentation of his work, and in many cases downright theft (see previous link about published DeviantArt watermark).
This.
I said before, I actually don't mind the art style, it's the shitty tracing and especially the plagiarism I can't abide.
Agreed.
I also meant to add that plagiarism is theft, and that's a definition not an opinion. There's no defending that.
Even when he photographs a toy and traces over it, he's failing to acknowledge the artist who sculpted that toy. In those cases, all it would take is a footnote in the inside cover to say the images created for the comic were obtain via photography of NECA or Hot Toys figures, or something to that effect to give credit to the people who made the sculpt. I'm sure there's probably more to that, like getting permission from NECA or whoever, but I think it would be easy to for them to obtain that permission considering it's like free advertising for their figures.
Honestly, it blows my mind that he poses the figures, photographs them, photoshops them and/or traces over them, etc... it's like he's going to much greater lengths to try to conceal his methods and make it look like something other than what it is, than if he were to just actually draw them 🤷♂️
But for the other instances, where he's photoshopping/tracing images that have a copyright or just blatantly stealing other peoples' art, there is just absolutely no excuse for that, and it's highly disappointing to see this sort of theft be tolerated to any extent by marvel and Disney.