I know that art theft is not cool and all, but damn, seeing that some artists are paranoid enough about it to the point of ruining their pictures like that...

Sexy fucking watermark, unf.

Such a god damned shame.

Note to self: Never view this persons art.

Neitsuke said:
I know that art theft is not cool and all, but damn, seeing that some artists are paranoid enough about it to the point of ruining their pictures like that...

i agree. it's one thing to make money off of art; it's another to care more about money than the art. i also feel sorry for people who don't know that freely sharing content--especially if it's along with a link to someplace you can buy it--increases sales.

or.. in the case that i'm mistaken and he's not selling it at all.. then why in the world wouldn't he want his stuff shared? what does he gain from limiting people to only being able to see his stuff on FA? doesn't he know that he can only get more popular if his stuff is shared? seems suspicious to me.

From what I gathered over time, it sometimes also has to do with some artists wanting to have full control over their art to some extent. Like once on Inkbunny, some artist (Sanae if I remember well) got pissed off because her? art was being uploaded on WildCritters, stating that she doesn't want her art to be elsewhere other than her galleries because she couldn't monitor the comments and how the website was stealing the favorites and view counts from her gallery.

Some other artists are just being fed up with art thefts over time instead, but still, slapping this ridiculous watermark because some idiots are pretending to be the artist is ridiculous

If you go and look at the child post, that is acceptable for a watermark

Neitsuke said:
I know that art theft is not cool and all, but damn, seeing that some artists are paranoid enough about it to the point of ruining their pictures like that...

Hi!
I understand that this huge watermark really takes away from the pic (a lot).
As you mentioned in another comment, sometimes it's hard to monitor sites, specially sites where you don't have an account, to see what people think of your art. I do appreciate that some sites do link back to my FA page but I've had sites purposely avoiding it (link to my art), not even marking "lemoncore" as the artist. I've also been treated really bad and even called stupid by some site's staff and I'm still struggling with wanting my art to give them views. I am way more open about my art being shared without my consent now; the reason why I changed my watermark throughout the months, as you can see on the child post and my FA page, is because i do want people to keep enjoying my art for free.
At some point I might even make a smaller watermark but I'm not sure I'll use it for the pokédex entries anytime soon.
Thanks for the feedback, though.

JohnathanKatz said:
Sexy fucking watermark, unf.

AWJIZZ!
(there's a child post with a smaller watermark so you can see the vagina clearly, if that's what you came for**).

Centaur said:
Note to self: Never view this persons art.

:ok:

TwilightStormshi said:
i agree. it's one thing to make money off of art; it's another to care more about money than the art. i also feel sorry for people who don't know that freely sharing content--especially if it's along with a link to someplace you can buy it--increases sales.

or.. in the case that i'm mistaken and he's not selling it at all.. then why in the world wouldn't he want his stuff shared? what does he gain from limiting people to only being able to see his stuff on FA? doesn't he know that he can only get more popular if his stuff is shared? seems suspicious to me.

I'm not a "he"; I'm a "her" :3

I understand that this huge watermark really takes away from the pic (a lot).
I do appreciate that some sites do link back to my FA page but I've had sites purposely avoiding it (link to my art), not even marking "lemoncore" as the artist. I've also been treated really bad and even called stupid by some site's staff and I'm still struggling with wanting my art to give them views. I am way more open about my art being shared without my consent now; the reason why I changed my watermark throughout the months, as you can see on the child post and my FA page, is because i do want people to keep enjoying my art for free.
At some point I might even make a smaller watermark but I'm not sure I'll use it for the pokédex entries anytime soon.
Thanks for the feedback, though.

Jbrowsing166 said:
If you go and look at the child post, that is acceptable for a watermark

Standard watermark now, for everything but pokédex entries °3°

All the comments are about the watermark? I was expecting "I like how slowbro is clueless to as what it's vagina is for." I didn't even notice the water mark at first because of that.

Tysup3 said:
All the comments are about the watermark? I was expecting "I like how slowbro is clueless to as what it's vagina is for." I didn't even notice the water mark at first because of that.

Most people that comment here comment on the watermark ^^U
I think it's not very visible but it sure looks like a big issue... and Pls, it's a slowbro! they're very slow ;v;

Lemoncore said:
AWJIZZ!
(there's a child post with a smaller watermark so you can see the vagina clearly, if that's what you came for**).

I mostly came for the attention to detail, but that watermark is just way too large.

Lemoncore said:

I'm not a "he"; I'm a "her" :3

I understand that this huge watermark really takes away from the pic (a lot).
I do appreciate that some sites do link back to my FA page but I've had sites purposely avoiding it (link to my art), not even marking "lemoncore" as the artist. I've also been treated really bad and even called stupid by some site's staff and I'm still struggling with wanting my art to give them views. I am way more open about my art being shared without my consent now; the reason why I changed my watermark throughout the months, as you can see on the child post and my FA page, is because i do want people to keep enjoying my art for free.
At some point I might even make a smaller watermark but I'm not sure I'll use it for the pokédex entries anytime soon.
Thanks for the feedback, though.

sorry for the sex mixup =P it's easier to assume every furry's a male.

if you legitimately care about your fans being able to enjoy your art freely, then i have no problem, and i don't think anyone else should either. it's just there are some artists who have gone off the deep end and only care about themselves.

why not make a small header or footer bar with a notice containing the information you want people to know about your picture? FA link, the collection it's part of, price, etc? an unobtrusive watermark is somewhat better, but people--including me--don't like it when art is covered up at all.

First, let me say that it is nice to see an artist behaving like you did, I would usually expect this person to get all butthurt over it but you didn't, so you automatically gain a lot of my respects towards you.

Lemoncore said:

As you mentioned in another comment, sometimes it's hard to monitor sites, specially sites where you don't have an account, to see what people think of your art. I do appreciate that some sites do link back to my FA page but I've had sites purposely avoiding it (link to my art), not even marking "lemoncore" as the artist. I've also been treated really bad and even called stupid by some site's staff and I'm still struggling with wanting my art to give them views.

There is absolutely no negatives about your art being distributed. What most of the artists don't consider is by overcentralizing everything they create, they are crippling themselves with no benefits whatsoever. Let me give you a very simple example of what I mean by that.

Let say that you upload your art on FurAffinity alone, without being uploaded elsewhere by anyone else of yourself. You get a decent following on FA as expected, all is going fine. Now let's compare this to if your art is getting redistributed by others. You still get the usual feedback over FA, while you get additional ones, plus free publicity, without yourself having to do anything at all. People are doing the "work" for you. People uploading your pictures elsewhere have absolutely no impacts on what you actually have on FA, other than bringing you new potential people over your main gallery and more publicity. They are not stealing you views or hindering your FA gallery whatsoever.

Lemoncore said:

I've also been treated really bad and even called stupid by some site's staff and I'm still struggling with wanting my art to give them views.

I actually don't quite get what you mean by that. Some staff from some websites treated you because they want your art to only give their website more traffic ?
Or if these two incidents are completely separated, then I have only one tip about it : Just don't take these insults too seriously. You can't and never will be able to please everyone, and stupid people are everywhere. Don't even take your time about them and instead focus on what's more important : Your fans, people who actually enjoy what you draw. Don't punish them with horrible watermarks because some people are idiots.

I love this, a lot, but as other people said, the water mark is just too invasive.

Don't even take your time about them and instead focus on what's more important : Your fans, people who actually enjoy what you draw. Don't punish them with horrible watermarks because some people are idiots.

Thanks, thanks. And you're right...
I'm still pondering the idea of using my now standard watermark for the pokédex too (refer to post 671720 for watermark... that's still marked as annoying, though).
It is still something i haven't decided, but I'm thinking of finishing region 1 with this watermark and maybe after that I'll use the smaller one for region 2 and on. That would keep the.. "style" even if it's not the best X'D
I'll still think about it, but for everything else that's not the pokédex i use the small watermark :3

JohnathanKatz said:
I mostly came for the attention to detail, but that watermark is just way too large.

It is indeed; i use my smaller watermark for everything else but the pokédex project and as i said in another comment, I'm still pondering if and when to start using the small watermark on the pokédex project too.
I'm thinking after finishing region one could be a good timing. °3°

TwilightStormshi said:
sorry for the sex mixup =P it's easier to assume every furry's a male.

if you legitimately care about your fans being able to enjoy your art freely, then i have no problem, and i don't think anyone else should either. it's just there are some artists who have gone off the deep end and only care about themselves.

why not make a small header or footer bar with a notice containing the information you want people to know about your picture? FA link, the collection it's part of, price, etc? an unobtrusive watermark is somewhat better, but people--including me--don't like it when art is covered up at all.

I've been using a smaller watermark as my standard one since december 2014 :3 (refer to post 671720) and the only times i use this huge watermark is for pokédex entries; I wrote this to someone else too: I'm thinking of implementing the small watermark on the poké-project after i finish Kanto, but I'm still unsure if i should do that until then or not do it or if it would be ok to do it earlier and bleh.. I haven't decided yet but i might make a poll on FA sometime soon asking about it :3

Liat said:
I love this, a lot, but as other people said, the water mark is just too invasive.

I'm considering using my smaller watermark (like the one on my avatar) for the poképroject too, but it's still just an idea; the huge watermark i use for the pokeproject is used only in these and all my other works (as you can see on my FA) have the small watermark since december 2014 :3

TwilightStormshi said:
i agree. it's one thing to make money off of art; it's another to care more about money than the art. i also feel sorry for people who don't know that freely sharing content--especially if it's along with a link to someplace you can buy it--increases sales.

or.. in the case that i'm mistaken and he's not selling it at all.. then why in the world wouldn't he want his stuff shared? what does he gain from limiting people to only being able to see his stuff on FA? doesn't he know that he can only get more popular if his stuff is shared? seems suspicious to me.

Actually you'll find most artists (below a certain ability level, myself included) don't watermark for the sake of sales, but so people don't steal your art and call it their own, which is far more common than you might think.
So don't assume it's all about money-grabbing. Maybe they just don't want -other people- profiting from their art.

Dive in to that gape

I guess Oak gave the PokeSex to the wrong person.

I literally would not have noticed the watermark if it wasn't mentioned.