It was brought to my attention today that The BOSS’ daum site used some of my fanart in their layout. While at first I was flattered, if not a little annoyed that they hadn’t asked me first, when I went to check it out I soon became very upset.
I originally posted this art back in March 2011 on my tumblr, my deviantART, and Astromafia. I drew it to celebrate my 1,000th tumblr post.
Now, I wouldn’t mind so much, except that not only did they not ask me first, they also didn’t provide any credit to me whatsoever. And, to top it all off, my signature was removed from the drawing. If you look at the versions of it that I posted, my signature (羽彤) is displayed quite prominently down by Mika’s leg. Either they took it off, or someone they got it from took it off. Whoever it was actually took the effort to remove any trace of me from the drawing.
I’m a rather slow artist, and that one little picture took me around ten hours to draw. That’s ten hours of my time and effort that were just stripped away and disregarded. I feel extremely disrespected and disappointed, and I would really like to contact the site admins and ask them to either take it down or give me credit.
I do not have a daum account, and even if I did my Korean is not nearly good enough to contact the site admins. I’m honestly just at a complete loss here. If you can help me, or if you know anyone who can, please send me a message. And even if you can’t, I would be extremely grateful if you could reblog this and help me possibly reach someone who can help me out.
I’m sorry for taking up so much space on your dashes, but please, please help me out here. I really just don’t know what else to do.
ugh. and they give so much flak to international fans for using their photos on tumblr when we give proper credit! rooting for you, yutong. and while i’m at it:
for every artist, writer, photographer out there: exposure will get you shit. fight for your money!
(via gennaration)
