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Keen Fox
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I think I have found the image Kyū Kanai was talking about, it is here on her instagram post back in 2023, it is the second image of the article:
https://www.instagram.com/tiyk_tbr/p/CyOG7ulpZfU/ |
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Handyman 68
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"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission" doesn't apply to things like this it would seem.
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#mimilu
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If he asked that model's permission first, he wouldn't be in this pickle now. It seems he drew and got the posters out first, and then she was made aware of it at a later time.
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Juno016
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There has been a growing number of artists in Japan who have been practicing art on pinterest and instagram, and there has been a worrying confusion about what counts as plagiarism, since certain things, like poses, are themselves not copyrightable in Japanese law (as any Jojo fan will likely remind you), but other things, like poses + framing + clothing choice, are copyrightable together. I use the sites myself and it can be a little jarring to see an artist I follow having clearly used a photo that pinterest has suggested to me a gazillion times. Heck, I was collecting a blind box figure set once and one of the figures I got stood out to me as the artist copying a well-known pinterest photo and just changing the face to the character in the set...
Eguchi was an artist I respected, but somehow it just doesn't feel shocking anymore. These are artists with real talent. I understanding getting inspiration from photos, or practicing gesture drawing and such on them, but tracing/copying only what you see just doesn't cut it. Do better. |
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omiya
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I visited a Hisahi Eguchi exhibition in 2023:
The person who posted about the exhibition on X/Twitter that lead to me attending has since deleted their post. |
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GATSU
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Hope it doesn't screw up the release of the Hibari-kun manga here, as well as that Perfect Blue 4k....
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Fluwm
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The thing that really gets me here is how he clearly went out of his way to make the traced art as identical as possible to the base image -- like down to the exact same type of handbag being held in the first image, or the individual strands of hair in the second image.
Like... that takes significantly more "work" than simply using the photos as a reference, as well as, I imagine, a pretty firm belief that they're not doing anything wrong (since no effort is being spent trying to conceal or obfuscate the "inspiration." |
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