Mithmeoi

I found this little meme, the image, and filled it out just for the hey of it. It’s so true! I get comments all the time of “omg that’s Balto.” or “are you a warriors fan??? Your cat looks like it’s from the stories???” No I came up with my character YEARS before those books existed. If anything you could say my style for her is loosely based on Oliver and Company, but I still find it annoying when people tell me she looks like Oliver just grey. Cause they are not even close.

If you draw a lion or wild cat that kind of has similar colors to one someone is bound to say OMG SIMBA!!! You draw a wolf, no matter what it looks like it’s automatically BALTO. Now to me I don’t get how it’s so hard to distinguish them. Especially if they don’t even have the same body build or colors, but apparently it’s very hard for some. Nothing is original these days, YES this is true, but just because a style is “similar” or reminds you of something doesn’t mean it is. Which also brings me to another point that irritates me to no end.

Art theft vigilantes. I talked about this in my “how not to be annoying” videos. These people drive me up a wall. They constantly run around crying theft!!! When most of the time what they are calling theft is not even close. I have people tell me “you stole that pose!!!” or “That idea has been done before!!!” Ok HELLO people, I don’t NEED to steal art, I’m quite capable of making my own. Secondly, you cannot copyright posing! If you could the first animated movie would probably have all the poses copyrighted to itself and there would be nothing left TO draw. Lastly… as I titled this entry, NOTHING is original anymore. It’s been done!!! People just build off of things that inspire them. I’ve built of the things that inspired me, Bluth films, Disney films, my cat and few other things here and there. It’s evident but it’s also obvious that it’s mine and unique to a certain extent. It can stand on it’s own as my style. It’s not a carbon copy.

I know so many artists that leave the internet and sometimes stop drawing altogether because of these people who are so harsh to anyone who’s art resembles a popular artist. They attack them, flame them, drag them down because they’ve been inspired by another artist. It’s one thing to steal a character design or a style completely but if it’s just inspiration, it should be encouraged. Cause we all started out at that level at one point.

Ok so that’s my little blip for today! Feeback is appreciated!