Am I really an art thief? I don't think so

Well this happened last weekend after I went out for the day on a ferry cruise around the Csco Bay islands (omg...so much fun) and I made back on my laptop to find that someone was accusing me of art theft. I did send her a reply explaining I merely referenced from the post and that I didn't trace or anything. But I didn't get a respond yet. But anyways I just felt like ranting.

Well I'll compare our pics

This is hers (a link since I really don't believe in posting other people's artwork in blogs without permission.)

and this is mine

Yeah I know...both poses are rather similar but they're not exactly the same. And OF COURSE I DIDN'T TRACE. I NEVER TRACE! I wanted the pose to look just like inspiration pic, so alot of erasing and sketching went into this! I did not trace - I DO NOT trace. So I hope we can make that clear

ok?
Plus the anatomy is very different...Beliar happens to be bigger than Hougen and I made the legs longer on Beliar because I was following deer anatomy than making anatomically incorrect ripoff. Because well...Beliar is a deer, not a dog. I have to make him look like a deer. Not a dog

Yeah yeah...I know deer don't poop like that but I only drew that in such a pose to make it funny.

Also another truth...you cannot copyright a pose. Poses are free...there's only so many of them and there are millions of pieces all over the world that have a similar pose. Is it right to call all those pieces ripoffs? I don't think so. However tracing is different...that is when someone printed the pic and threw a blank piece of paper over and had run a pencil over the lines. And I didn't do any of that. that was draw 100% freehand...I may had the pic on my comp screen while drawing Beilar but is not tracing...that is inspiration and referencing. Inspiration and copying are two VERY different things. I get inspired with all my all from various things...music, movies, games, and other people's pieces. Is it wrong to make a piece because you got inspired by something? I don't think so.

Ok so let me get this straight...I did not trace or copy the original. I was inspired, drew freehand, and referenced.

Got it?

You better get it or else!

And out of etiquette...I rewritten the artist comment and credited the original pic. So we can settle this.

And to the artist that accused me of "art theft"...I'm not trying to start any wars. I'm just straightening things out.

kthanksgoodbye

Ilustrations...

They are so much fun to make. Recently I discovered this new technique where I would color a pencil sketch digitally on Photoshop. It's all thanks to his nice tutorial I found on DeviantArt. Since then I've been making some of my art pieces in that style rather than in my classic sharp vector style like I did with one of my characters.

Here's a small sampling of pieces I did that was drawn in the new sketch style.

Also another thing, I believe that these illustration type pics I've been making is good for my art portfolio for interviews with art schools. You can see a page of my portfolio pieces here. I'll porbatly be adding more pieces as time goes by.