Hi Guys

I was hoping it would never come to this, but it's recently come to my attention that my artwork is being stolen. I had never had this problem before, and it's suddenly been happening a lot.

I really don't want to have to reduce the size of my artwork so that you can barely see them anymore. I like keeping my artwork large enough for you guys to be able to see the smaller details, as many people have asked me about how I do certain things, and having very small pictures makes it even harder to teach. I don't consider myself an expert artist by any means, but I love sharing what I do know with people who are interested.

Also, I would prefer not to watermark my drawings, because I hate the way that looks and I'd like to think I can trust people to not steal my work. If you like my style enough to want to claim it as your own, I'm flattered and I will be more than happy to try to teach you. However, claiming my work as your own not only violates copyright laws, but it's an extremely low thing to do.

So here is what I will be doing: I'm not going to reduce the size of my pictures, and I'm not going to watermark them...YET. I like sharing my work with others, and as I mentioned above, I'm, actually somewhat flattered that people like my drawings. However, if you do plan on using my artwork on your MySpace, Facebook, or whatever, you must credit me and link to my deviantArt profile page. If I find any of my artwork elsewhere without this credit, you can be sure I will do whatever I can to take not only my artwork off your page, but your entire profile off of the website, if possible. I know for a fact that Facebook (and likely others) have policies against plagiarism that can have you eliminated from their site forever. And I hardly think that it is too much to ask for a credit. I don't care what you do with it (unless you're doing something illegal with it...I dunno what, but I'm sure people could find something), as long as you link to me!

And I'd also just like to restate the following: I'm definitely here to help you. If it's my style that you like and would like to try, please message me and I will do whatever I can to help you out. I haven't submitted anything new lately due to...a variety of reasons, but I'm still checking my account frequently.

Don't plagiarize! You'll feel so much better knowing that something is your own creation, and deep down, that you're not a thief.

Keep on rockin' in the free world, kids.