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Please do not play as my characters in your DnD games!
I've had it happen before without my knowledge where someone claimed my design as their own and began commissioning art of them under that assumption.
It doesn't feel great. Even if you have good intentions, I'd like to avoid it at all costs.

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Since this artwork suddenly got really popular on Pinterest, I'm reposting this here. I deleted this before because I wanted to clean up old art from my gallery and learned that removing my art from my original gallery doesn't remove things from Pinterest. I don't like this iteration of Aurelious, I don't know why people like it so much. I've had people ask to RP with this artwork representing their character and I prefer that you don't.

I'm upset to a degree, that the one artwork that sparked all this popularity for my art is a doodle that I didn't bother to watermark because I thought it was trash. Of course, that's my fault for not assuming that there will be thieves/reposters even for my most mundane work. As much as I love the fame and people coming to me now because of this one artwork, I'd like to be able to clean my portfolio how I want to and now I can't.

So I'm putting this back with a stamp of my name so people can reverse image search it and probably find this gallery. I hate that I have to do it but whatever.
Will this version get as popular? Doubt it.

Will people take the unwatermarked version and put their own name on it/give no credit?
Most likely.

Let's just say I learned my lesson and I'm glad that it's not a bigger piece that's getting this treatment.
Call me pessimistic or spoiled but as the artist, I think I have the right to call my own art trash lol.

Description

Please do not play as my characters in your DnD games!
I've had it happen before without my knowledge where someone claimed my design as their own and began commissioning art of them under that assumption.
It doesn't feel great. Even if you have good intentions, I'd like to avoid it at all costs.

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Since this artwork suddenly got really popular on Pinterest, I'm reposting this here. I deleted this before because I wanted to clean up old art from my gallery and learned that removing my art from my original gallery doesn't remove things from Pinterest. I don't like this iteration of Aurelious, I don't know why people like it so much. I've had people ask to RP with this artwork representing their character and I prefer that you don't.

I'm upset to a degree, that the one artwork that sparked all this popularity for my art is a doodle that I didn't bother to watermark because I thought it was trash. Of course, that's my fault for not assuming that there will be thieves/reposters even for my most mundane work. As much as I love the fame and people coming to me now because of this one artwork, I'd like to be able to clean my portfolio how I want to and now I can't.

So I'm putting this back with a stamp of my name so people can reverse image search it and probably find this gallery. I hate that I have to do it but whatever.
Will this version get as popular? Doubt it.

Will people take the unwatermarked version and put their own name on it/give no credit?
Most likely.

Let's just say I learned my lesson and I'm glad that it's not a bigger piece that's getting this treatment.
Call me pessimistic or spoiled but as the artist, I think I have the right to call my own art trash lol.