Art Theft Thread

[Jester]

Hey all....if anyone who is a better master of the search function can find a thread that is just this, then I'll gladly merge them, but I'm hit with a conundrum. I saw this piece on a TMNT facebook group.

The poster claims it as their original fan art.....but come on...that's totally Eastman and Laird art, right? I'm not delusional, that's a Kevin and Pete piece that they colored, right? Any help tracking the originals will be greatly appreciated.

[pennydreadful]

Woah... yeah, I'm sure that piece looks familiar, and my knowledge of official TMNT artists is not very extensive. I'm leaning towards art theft, myself.

UPDATE: I'm positive I've seen that Mikey before - I'm thinking that he might have cobbled together the individual Turtles from different Eastman/Laird pieces. I'll try to do some digging and see what I can turn up - art thieves seriously groat my goat.

[Powder]

Why'd ya make a thread for this? I told ya on FB it was a rip-off. They literally printed out this picture (after erasing Pete's signature) & colored it sloppily with washable markers.
Call him out & expose his ass. Please.

[Nameless]

so if i find my old colouring books from when i was young, can i just claim it as original TMNT fan made art. i even manage to stay inside the lines for part of it.

[pennydreadful]

What a wank stain - I'm with Powder; name and shame this scuzzbucket.

At which point the art thief will do what art thieves always do when they get caught out - backpedal and say that they never stated the original art theirs, but THEY did the coloring so somehow that justifies them posting the piece as their art.

<barf>

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by nameless

i even manage to stay inside the lines for part of it.

Beat me. lol


I don't get what the point even is of someone doing that. Mimicking an art style and claiming it's 'authentic' in order to scam collectors would be expected, sadly. But steal a work and claim it to be your own after coloring it for....why? Want people to think you have drawing talents you don't have? Point being...?

[pennydreadful]

Point being art thieves feel that they're special enough that they should get credit and attention from others, but are too lazy to want to do anything to deserve it. Rather than get off their arses and actually do something to improve themselves or gain some sort of skill, they just steal from people who do have genuine talent, who've worked for years to develop their art portfolios and who barely make a living on their art as it is most of the time.

Art thieves p*ss me off majorly; I think they're absolute scum. Arrogant, self-indulgent parasites who not only steal from the artists, but believe that everybody else is stupid enough to not be able to identify their obvious fakes and forgeries. I mean, what sort of pan-galactic f*cktard rips off art from a TMNT creator and then posts it on a TMNT fanpage?

They're surplus to the earth's requirements - burn them with fire.

[IndigoErth]

That really takes an advanced level of SUPERSTUPID to then wave it around in others faces, esp where it may be seen by those who can come after you for it.

So, simplified it's pretty much what I thought then, really lame people trying to fake having a talent to be viewed as "special." Thinking it adds anything at all to your life to try to make people think you can draw.... increase to ULTRAMEGASTUPID.

Eesh. I wish I could draw far better than I can, but I'd much rather be able to get down on paper what I see in my own head (drives me crazy that it's stuck there), there would be no meaning in just copying or altering things that came from someone else's imagination.... Those people need to figure that out.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Powder

Why'd ya make a thread for this? I told ya on FB it was a rip-off. They literally printed out this picture (after erasing Pete's signature) & colored it sloppily with washable markers.
Call him out & expose his ass. Please.

http://i61.tinypic.com/2ujguja.jpg

To be honest, it was primarily to find the original art. I hit google, but was not turning it up. Original piece has been posted in the group.

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

What a wank stain - I'm with Powder; name and shame this scuzzbucket.

At which point the art thief will do what art thieves always do when they get caught out - backpedal and say that they never stated the original art theirs, but THEY did the coloring so somehow that justifies them posting the piece as their art.

<barf>

Done...and he DIDN'T back pedal....like at all....he just claims he used that piece as his inspiration.

Debating posting this:

[Powder]

I guess I shoulda hit you with it last night. My bad.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Powder

I guess I shoulda hit you with it last night. My bad.

Eh....maybe I ought to just re-title the thread the "The Art Thief Thread"

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Jester

Done...and he DIDN'T back pedal....like at all....he just claims he used that piece as his inspiration.

Wow, that's a new one. Funny how his inspiration looks just like plagiarism.

It's not often that I'm moved to quote anything Kevin Smith-related, but in this case, I agree. Chasing Amy references seem more than appropriate.

[Powder]

Inspiration my fat Irish ass, he clearly printed it out with the credits erased. I'm tempted to have you point me in the direction of this schmuck. My artist friends & I have been the victim of art theft mad times, so it gets me tight. Same case for when it's my idols they're ripping off. It ain't cool, period.

Reminds me of an event from September, a TMNT art show I was asked to be a part of. On the FB page for the event the "artists" were posting previews. The one chick literally ripped off all 3 of her submissions, when I called her out on it she claimed that she only used them as "references". Then her friend attacked me for being "on a high horse". Another woman posted her work, it was a lackluster copy of an Eric Talbot piece. "But mine's different! " she said, while her middle-aged waste of life accomplices cheered her on & shunned me.

F*ck people.

[Jester]

One wonders if I ought to "share" the post with Peter himself.

[Powder]

I doubt he'd say anything but I'd be curious, nonetheless...

[Nameless]

Originally Posted by Powder

while her middle-aged waste of life accomplices cheered her on & shunned me.

don't you just love mob mentally mixed with internet anonymity.

[pennydreadful]

I've got something I'd like to share with the little dweeb.

[IndigoErth]

Do ettt... I'd want to know if it was my stuff. At the very least to keep an eye on it.

[OA]

My visions a bit wonky...but is this signed twice? On the left 86 and the right 85? Even if it '86 twice that's very odd and I think I can count on one finger the amount of times I've seen one of their pieces marked like that,

[Bry]

Originally Posted by Punky Poo Pie Head

My visions a bit wonky...but is this signed twice? On the left 86 and the right 85? Even if it '86 twice that's very odd and I think I can count on one finger the amount of times I've seen one of their pieces marked like that,

The date on the right is part of the signature, so it was probably just left as-is when they used it for something else later on and added the copyright info. Happens on comic covers sometimes if an artist includes the year they drew it in their signature and it's not published until the next.