2ch has uncovered plagiarism so egregious as to make even Simmons blush, were he not utterly shameless.
Artist Yunomi, pictured, is known for illustrating a variety of highly popular Vocaloid MAD tunes (with views in the millions), a number of doujinshi and several album covers.
However 2ch’s investigations recently discovered that practically all her illustrations are traces of photographs, in some cases combining several photographs to create a composite illustration, and with a large proportion of the photos coming from a commercial sample library – with rights to each image costing in the region of $100.
The paragon of the plagiarist’s art-form – bike, riders, background and even bags based on illicit Photoshop usage:
Half of them are common poses seen many times in shojo anime, drama shows and films to the point of genericized. Those claim would never stand in court.
Oh my God.. a few months ago I drew Gumi from Coward Montblanc and used a picture of her to look at… and I drew Datsu-Kun from Dappo Rock and looked at a picture of him… I ALSO DREW RIN AND LOOKED AT HER ACT 2 BOX ART!! Oh my God I’m gonna go to jail!! NO!!!
Who fucking cares if she drew the same bike or background (or balloon, because, you know, that’s something to worry about). Come on, her art is FANTASTIC! I absolutely love her art style, it’s so beautiful! She could have 1. Tried drawing without tracing (and add different details) and/or 2. Said that she looked at photos for reference. I feel she also could have tried to find a stock image for the pose from Magnet, maybe even photo shop two people.
2chan: people who dont have nothing to do in his lives.
2chan like to bitch about things don’t they…..
just because someone has drawn or taken a photo of something that looks a little like what your doing does not mean that you copied them.
there are so many pics there that are down right stupid cos i bet there’s thousands of pics all over the world just like it.
So… you’re not allowed to look on things that exists IRL to influence your art?
Some of the Photo -> Art stuff I can see why people react, and the Art -> Plagiasied Art I can see.
But most of the photo-infulence it’s “WOW POSES, WOW BUNNY, WOW BALLON, WOW BIKE” and such makes me just want to say Pathetic to those who whine.