The other day I found myself looking for a portrait artist, and I happen to come across something suspicious. At first, I shrugged it off and went on... then I looked again. After a quick investigation, I found this:

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Oddly alike, aye? Now... it might not have been as bad, if the portrait hadn't been for another person. Not only has this artist pretty much stolen someone else's hardwork, they've handed it off to another person saying its the fruit of their own effort. In fact, it says in the artist's comments that they worked very hard on it. To top it all off? I posted that link in a comment on the accused portrait, and hours later, they removed all public comments on that deviation.

Naturally, I was frustrated. So, I went to browse through said person's gallery. Again, I didn't find anything too unusual at a glance and once more, I thought about simply dropping it and going on, until I found another copy! This one isn't as blatantly obvious, but I think most will easily see what I'm talking about when they're compared side to side.

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I wouldn't say this is copying simply for the pose, as its relatively hard to come up with a genuine pose all your own, but... it looks like to me, more or less, the artist just traced the original, and edited it to look like Kee.

Let me explain something before I start getting bashed for this from the artist's friends and such. I know, good and well, that if a piece of your own artwork was copied, traced, stolen, etc, you'd be pretty darn angry. In other words, don't comment here like I'm picking on this person just cause I can. Not only that, I edited out the artist's name and I won't even mention it here for the good of... well, everyone I believe.

Personally, I just think this is wrong. Stuff like this gets to me seeing as the original artist probably worked their bums off on those pictures, only to have some random person literally tracing them in the hopes of getting a few comments. Its truely a disgrace to both artists.