With the birthday gift drama. I’m in the process of changing the image, I had not confirmed with Jen2(Wimbi) what her character looked like at the time of drawing because I wanted it to be a surprise. Sorry that I was trying to keep to the tradition of keeping gifts a mystery until received because it makes it more fun for both parties when it is a nice gift. I was not kept informed about their relationship or the character’s design status.I try not to pry into other people’s friendships/relationships unless they bring it up first. I was trying to be nice to her because her computer was broken so she missed my birthday message and make up for that issue.
Now if Rhoadie or anyone else had actually been looking at my other works, they would see that I have disclaimers like that on the Birthday gift image. So the disclaimer was meant and is still meant for the real art thieves who post things like this on Youtube or turn it into a base. I didn’t even submit the picture to Rhoadie’s group, the group asked me so again Wimbi and I did not conspire to upset Rhoadie.
So putting this issue to bed now. If I had intentions of being malicious/threatening/spiteful towards Rhoadie, I would be using this, which is my character Roka, that she put in her special closed species design, just to piss her off. I haven’t because as stupid as it sounds I have enough respect for her to not use her species even thought that has my character’s design which means I would have every right to use the species and design. It’s my character she put in the species so I have every right to use it.
If Rhoadie was that truly upset over the image, she has my skype address, my hotmail email, my furaffinity, my lioden account, and dA (All my ends on these accounts are unblocked to her) to inform me of the issue with the character instead of making a ruckus for Wimbi and having Wimbi contact me, late at night and upset, while I’m writhing in pain from a recent injury that has left me unable to walk without wanting to take a bonesaw to my hip joint and cut my entire leg off.
Now Rhoadie can quit playing the victim of this fiasco as she could have settled by sending a quick note of “Hey Wimbi has returned the character design to me”, “Hey this isn’t Wimbi’s character design any further but I like the piece so could you keep it as fanart and make a new piece for Wimbi”, or even “the character design you posted is no longer Wimbi’s could you please change it?” would have worked.
I would have HAPPILY changed it sooner, or can leave it as fanart for Rhoadie to do with as she pleases and draw Wimbi a new one or two. The attempting to pressure me to work faster on altering the gift to Wimbi does not help my art, and it will be a thorn in Rhoadie’s side longer. Not naming names but do cease and desist.
Thank you Kash for allowing me to post this so I could get this out in the open for everyone who is not my follower to see and not get sucked into this really truly stupid argument. I hate creating drama and do everything even things I am not proud of to make the drama get swept under the rug. This should be enough evidence to this matter that the intentions behind the image were altruistic and no one was targeted as much as the people who are pressuring me claim.
That being said I don’t have issues redoing a piece if there is a problem and I’m made aware of it in a polite manner.
~Wolfsea
I’m just sorry she chose to be a drama queen instead of being mature and contacting you privately. I’m sorry that this happened.
I tried explaining the disclaimer situation to one of my anons who thought otherwise. Some people just don’t seem to understand that if our art gets enough traffic it’s going to be found by malicious people.
We’re artists, it’s an occupational hazard.
I hope things calm down for the two of you.
And I hope you get to feeling better! Take care of yourself.