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What My Gallery Isn't by =Caria:iconCaria:


©2007-2009 =Caria
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Much like DeviantART isn't Google or Photobucket, DeviantART isn't a colouring book. If you see someone's shiny lineart either newly uploaded or in their gallery, don't think "hey, that looks nice, I'll colour it!"

It's not your artwork to take and colour.

By all means, if it's in a club that specialises in lineart that is available for others to colour then, with any appropriate credit required by the artist and / or club, colour it. But if it's someone's own, personal gallery, the only thing you will do is annoy them.

If you really, really want to colour some of their work, drop them a note and ask. The worst they could do is say "sorry, I don't let people colour my artwork". But they might say "yes", or "we could collaborate instead".

But simply taking it, colouring it and uploading it again, whether you credit or not? That's theft.

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I never thought I'd even consider making a stamp for this, but then, I never ever considered that anyone'd actually do this to me! :XD:

Note: I Americanised myself briefly and used 'color' instead of 'colour' because, er, the 'u' stopped the word fitting in the stamp properly.

Feel free to link, thumbnail, or whatever the stamp. :)

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:iconkitty-taylor:
Haha. Americanised xD
Nice stamp :D

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"Procrastinator at work"
-- Slap me I'm British
:iconcaria:
I'm glad you think so! It was a larger pain to make than I thought it'd be. :O_o:
:iconcaria:
It's those damn 'u's! :(

Glad you like. :D
:iconkitty-taylor:
:D

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"Procrastinator at work"
-- Slap me I'm British
:iconjacquelynfisher:
Its seems little things always are. =D

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:iconinveiglement:
People just don't understand that line art is OK when it's not colored too -_- On top of coloring stuff that's not theirs they do a bloody horrible job at it >.<

Using this stamp :heart:
:iconcaria:
Oh I know... And I don't mind when people note me asking 'can I colour [blah]?' or whatever, we can work something out... but when you clock someone as having just coloured it without asking and then they seem to expect you to be pleased. :O_o: Um, no. They're doing me no favours. :shakefist: And the worst thing is that now I've been putting "do not colour this lineart" notices on my black-and-whites, more people have been saying "awww, can I colour it, pleaase??!" Which... seriously makes me wonder how many people were just taking it and colouring without asking. Normally I'd think "no one'd do that, it's not good enough", but lately some people... just... gah. Words fail.

Sorry, I could rant about that all day... >_> Better that I don't. =P

I'm glad you can be getting some usage out of it, and thank you for the support!
:iconnetbug009:
THANK YOU. My friend have been victim to art theft recolor.

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