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Stanpai
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Stan (Stanpai) @Stanpai

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Don't F*** With My Artwork!: An Artist's Plea

Posted by Stanpai - February 20th, 2009


Earlier this week, my friend came to me desperately needing help so he can fulfill his dream of making a comic book. He requested that I draw some characters for him. I told him that I must be given full rights to the characters and he is to tell me when he wants something changed, so that i can redraw the character with his changes in mind.
A few days ago, I drew for him two characters. One he had a rough template to base it on, the other he described for me to do from scratch. I finished one character. I gave him the sketchbook. He took it home and returned the next day. He had taken my original drawing, erased parts of it, and had drawn over them in his own way, for lack of a better word bastardizing it.
As an artist, there is one thing I absolutely hate, and that is when people take editing of someone else's work into their own hands without the permission or advisory of the artist. I take such an action very personally and as an insult to my work.
I am sure many other artists, if not all feel the same way about people taking their creations and making them their own, removing the different pieces and details that embody the true artist's style. Each artist uses what they draw as self expression and to reveal their style to the world. To implement your own choices without talking to the creator is like kidnapping a child, and raising it without the input of the parent.
I make this post as a protest, and a request. I would like to ask all people to respect an artists artwork, because each piece is made with a part of the artist inside of it, and when you take that away, you are taking a part of the artist's soul.
Thank You,
-Stanley Kuschick


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He should've known better...that by altering your drawing, he was doing something tantamount to rape. (for artists like anyway...)

Yeah, basically. I made him feel bad for it too. He swore to never do it again. We'll see.