Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-7637833-20160629182514/@comment-24350564-20160729002028

Smash The Echidna wrote: Wingsz wrote: If you're going to change everything except for the pose, why not just draw the pose instead? Because maybe some people can't draw poses very well? Why do you think people use things like bases? This is essentially the same concept. I'm not saying it's technically a good thing to do, but that's why people do it.

Of course, we don't tolerate recolored/edited fan-art (of official characters or fan characters such as yours,) period. There's no two ways about that. But perhaps, just perhaps, there should be some leeway for official art? I mean, official artwork (i.e pictures seen in game manuals or sonic x screenshots,) is normally something everyone's going to recognize off the bat. Let's also remember that no one's making any kind of profit off of this stuff, and the official stuff is all licensed and copyrighted. They couldn't get away with claiming the whole thing as their own if they tried.

Fan-art is a different story, but let's not go there; we don't allow it anyway.

Those are my two cents on the matter. Feel free to keep up the debate; you're the only one who gave any sort of feedback on this. I don't think it's right, no matter what. If you can't draw the pose, practice until you can. Tracing/editing someone else's work without permission is unforgiveable, even if it's official art and everyone knows who it belongs to. I wasn't talking about claiming it's theirs, I just think it's plain wrong. If you can't draw your character, ask someone who can. I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who wouldn't mind helping out. It's just wrong to fuck up someone's art, man.