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What My Gallery Isn'tby ~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!

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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~SunshineSmilesPony May 22, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Or, dont be a cunt, based on any kind of mark you can have on art, they CAN take and color on it. Ignorant kids.

~Mirria1 Mar 23, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I agree with this.

same with comic/manga books. like the actual book you buy from the store. and then people go coloring in them like it's a coloring book. gah. it's just ruining it.

~DreamArtCore Apr 9, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

People DO that?!

~colouredforpleasure Feb 16, 2013

I have never ever come across someone who has said "no" to me colouring their lineart. It's more of flattery than theft. What are you appropriating? You haven't "taken" anything, but that's only under the considerations that you give an original link back to the lineart itself.
There have been a few occasions where I've coloured someone's lineart as a "surprise" for them, and they had no problem with it afterwards. This assumes to much that applying colour to some lineart breaks the rules of copyright, when it doesn't.

~MrILikeTrains1000 Feb 24, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

He means recolors...

~ChampionWinry44789 Jan 13, 2013 Student General Artist

Amen.

=LoVe-3N Jan 3, 2013 Student General Artist

Some artists make linearts for others to colour.

~Zereverefano Dec 9, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

get rid of this... you're bullying against new artists...

=Lowbubbles Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

So people taking others people art and slapping different things on it is okay?
there are rules on this site weather people like it or not .

Nothing is wrong with this stamp .

~Zereverefano Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

yet most of them do it nevertheless

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