Everyone has a different way of learning how to draw and no one can control the amount of people who favourite their gallery. Complaining about the "millions" of faves (A bit of an exaggeration much? The highest we have on here is Pample with no more than 740 I believe) they receive is unfair as they can't help it.
Members are allowed to copy from screenshots to learn. They don't really know any better. And to be honest, it's normally very obvious when they copy so giving credit, whilst preferred, isn't entirely necessary. Only is they take credit for it which, though you say otehrwise, I've very rarely seen happen here and of course when you accuse them of "stealing" they are going to deny it because they didn't steal. They referenced. They copied. They learned.
It does annoy me when people try to learn by copying the Balto movies. But not because of your reasons where they get lots of feedback and such. (Which actually sounds like jealousy to me? Why else would you have a problem with it?) Simply because they are falling into one of the things we are mostly tired of seeing - Artists who have a Balto style.
The best thing I can recommend to those starting out is to reference from photographs from real wolves and cite appropriately.
Quote:
A Person: Ummm those look ALOT like the screenshots from balto, same poses and everything
B person: WELL I DIDDN'T STEAL THEM! HOW COULD YOU ACCUSE ME OF STEALING
Like I said. Members are allowed to copy from them to learn. And they aren't doing anything wrong by doing so. Also, they AREN'T stealing art. Poses can not be copyrighted, so they're not stealing them.
To be honest. If you think someone is stealing don't argue with them or rant. Report them. But really I rarely see people stealing anymore and I'm very active in the fan art section.
