Just a quick entry here.
It came to my attention today that there's yet another art thief on Deviant Art who goes by the name "TheArbz". Here's his page [link]
He lifted and edited a Rinzler (TRON) illustration of mine that I did back in December. He swiped it from my website, made a few quick edits in either Photoshop or GIMP and then posted it to his DA account as his own. [link]
Kathleen McMillan (Ladyvenommyo) keeps an eye out for this kind of thing and was kind enough to send me an e-mail with a link to her findings. [link]
My original is here. [link]
It is only a piece of fan artwork so it's not as if somebody is stealing an original design of mine and trying to take credit or make money from it, but that doesn't lessen the offense. Art theft is art theft and it's the principle behind it that shouldn't go unnoticed. People like TheArbz need to understand that this kind of behavior won't be tolerated on DeviantArt.
It also appears as if this guy has other pieces of stolen art in his gallery, quite possibly the entire gallery. So visit his page, take a look, if you see someone elses art there, let them know.
Thanks!











