**Warning I'm about to blow off some steam...**

First I'd like to say that I truly, truly appreciate the efforts of artists like as well as others for creating tutorials for under-skilled artists like myself to learn from. They post their hard work up as a guide for us to learn things like expressions, body language, etc. I have used their references in a lot of my work (whether I did them justice or not).

However, I am getting really, really tired of some folks on here "borrowing" (read as stealing) other artists work and simply, idk, turning it into a black and white picture, coloring it in, etc. and not giving credit to the original artists! For example, lot of folks put lineart up, and I'm sure they are quite happy when someone takes the time to color it in, but don't go throwing something up here on dA and say "I colored this, I hope you like it." without even alluding to who the orginal artist was. Give credit where it is due people!

Marta, Mary Dreams, Lberghol, Mudblood428 (just to name a few)'s work has been victimized quite a bit and it breaks my heart because I know that they find it discouraging.

Think about it people, if you're going to pour your heart and soul into something, spend hours on it trying to hone in your artistic skills, and then 6 months later someone rips off your work, wouldn't that piss you off???

If I stepped on some toes here, well, then they needed stepping on!
No apologies today folks!