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painting plagarism.
ok, i've always gotten the general idea of what would be considered plagarism but then some people have told me different things so now i'm always nervous i'm going to plagarizing something.
anyways.
i love to paint and so i always want to paint things for friends who'd like something done (i basically just charge them for the canvas and like, ten extra bucks for me doing it). well a friend wants this character (frank the rabbit from donnie darko) painted and so i would have to go on google and draw the image onto the canvas based off the picture. then i was going to give it my own design for the background and whatnot. so i just want to ask for this and future reference: would that be plagarizing? i've heard some people say as long as i write wherever i got it or who took the picture, etc. on the back then i'm fine. others have said that if you change it around enough it's considered your work and it's fine.
i can visualize what everything i want to paint looks like in my head, but then when i try to draw it it just looks bad so i like to use google images and stuff for references and then play around with it from there.
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Nothing of the sort. You are painting your own painting of an image that exists within the public domain. Not to mention that the original image is of an actual costume, not a painting of a costume, so you aren't actually copying the original work in any real way. You're paining the original work, which is no different than painting a portrait of someone who's had a portrait painted of them before.
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This is a good question. Plagiarism is when you copy someone else's work and then take credit for it. Here's the thing - you should always be letting people know, either by writing something on the picture or on the back, that the original image is belongs to someone else. That's just being a responsible artist. As long as you don't profit on a large scale, its fine. You're just doing stuff for your friends, so no one is really going to notice that. But if you choose to take your work to an art fair or sell it online or even start selling it locally, you need permission from the artist to use their images. Sometimes it costs A LOT of money, sometimes it costs nothing. But it you profit from these images and they find out, you can be sued and banned from selling any more of your creations. So just be wise. Little things for your friends and family are fine. If and when you decide to venture out into the larger art world, you'll need to have official permission.
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