Quote from: J-Syxx on Aug 16, 2010, 06:00:29 AM
Yes, because there's this huge risk of people printing out fanart on glossy paper and selling it at auction for thousands of dollars. I don't really need to get over anything. Pretentious dipshits who ruin their art for the only fans they will ever have to take an unneccesary ego trip need to either be slapped or not upload it in the first place.
There is a huge risk, because it has happened to me. I wouldn't have said anything I mentioned in my previous post if I didn't have anything to back it up.
I don't see why protecting something you worked hard on, or love is any reason to say someone has an ego or needs to be slapped.
I've been told plenty of times that the watermarks take away from my artwork, but I don't care. If it saves me time and money to get out of having to do legal work to get my own creation back and not under someone else name, I will watermark, and I'm sure other artists see it the same way as I do.
You obviously don't know what it's like to have something that you have put your heart and soul into, taken away from you by someone who claims its theirs, and did absolutely no work besides Right-Click>Save As.