Hmm, Idk, it might need more watermarks.

Watermarks are the perception that somehow using them protects against unauthorized commercial use. In reality its extremely unlikely any commercial use, authorized or not, will come of it. The art may be good, but its extremely niche and unlikely exploitable. So what you wind up doing is defacing something you took so much time and care to create and slashed a knife across it to 'protect it.'

Callista_Vavoom said:
Watermarks are the perception that somehow using them protects against unauthorized commercial use. [...]

I think their modern usage is more as an incentive to get consumers to pay for the clean patreon version.

Callista_Vavoom said:
Watermarks are the perception that somehow using them protects against unauthorized commercial use. In reality its extremely unlikely any commercial use, authorized or not, will come of it. The art may be good, but its extremely niche and unlikely exploitable. So what you wind up doing is defacing something you took so much time and care to create and slashed a knife across it to 'protect it.'

Actually it's because a lot of people that don't understand the concept of crediting/sourcing art when they repost it. As ugly/obnoxious as watermarks are, if my art is posted in group chats etc without source, I want people to be able to find me. It's not about """protection""" lmao

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Bonnie_Bovine said:
Actually it's because a lot of people that don't understand the concept of crediting/sourcing art when they repost it. As ugly/obnoxious as watermarks are, if my art is posted in group chats etc without source, I want people to be able to find me. It's not about """protection""" lmao

Watermarks like this are the once that get edited out because they take the focus away from the picture. Of course you can do whatever you want but its really annoying for us. Imagine watching TV with the Logos of the channel in the middle of the screen the whole time. If you dont think you overdo it, allright.
Just saying this comment-section looks different lmao

Callista_Vavoom said:
Watermarks are the perception that somehow using them protects against unauthorized commercial use. In reality its extremely unlikely any commercial use, authorized or not, will come of it. The art may be good, but its extremely niche and unlikely exploitable. So what you wind up doing is defacing something you took so much time and care to create and slashed a knife across it to 'protect it.'

It hardly has anything to do with getting exploited commercially in most cases. It's because of how often art gets used without permission by reposting accounts and roleplayers and it's incredibly frustrating to deal with.

And also I don't think it look nearly that defaced. People overreact to watermarks tbh

Whoracle said:
Completely unrelated to this post, but can someone help me find an artist I liked? His name was ”silver###” .. I'm just not sure what those 3 numbers were

It is silver723
You can see it in your favourites.

Qualzar said:
It hardly has anything to do with getting exploited commercially in most cases. It's because of how often art gets used without permission by reposting accounts and roleplayers and it's incredibly frustrating to deal with.

I've regularly seen DeviantArt burner accounts steal front page professional artwork simply for clickbait, so I understand why people do it. Then there was the case where someone did steal to commercialize, and got the actual artist censured because site staff couldn't be arsed to do their fucking due diligence.

When you cry about watermarks.

The view ♥

Bonnie_Bovine said:
Actually it's because a lot of people that don't understand the concept of crediting/sourcing art when they repost it. As ugly/obnoxious as watermarks are, if my art is posted in group chats etc without
source, I want people to be able to find me. It's not about """protection""" lmao

You do what you gotta do Miss Bovine, art is beautiful as always!

CheekyZeeky said:
Wouldn't just the watermark in the bottom left be enough then? If the intention is to get them to find you, your signature is clear and easy to read and see.

Most of the time yeah, which is what I normally used to do until I came across a number of people who intentionally would crop out the watermarks :/ It's annoying, and I know its annoying for viewers to see watermarks "ruining" an image. I've eased back on watermarking my current images, but I'm still trying to find a good balance that I feel comfortable with, and people are (mostly) happy with.