Source Cops

Update on sourcing art

monkeyscandance:

Since it happens more and more that I click on my tracked tags to see unsourced fanarts and graphics, it is time to update THIS post.

HELP! I found this awesome picture, but don’t know who did it! 

There are 3 steps you can take to not be disrespectful towards the creator of the piece:

1. Save fanart/graphics/gifs with the name of the creator.

This might sound annoying at first, but in the end, it saves you a lot of trouble looking for the creator. It is no coincidence that deviantArt’s default filename for images contains the name of the deviantArtist. It speaks for how lazy we tend to be while saving stuff for ourselves that this was implemented. 

It does not take long to simply add a nickname to a file, just try to do it.

2. Use the browser extension ‘Image Search Options’

If you didn’t saved the file with the name of the creator or you got it from an image board does not mean you should post it without source on your blog. 

The browser extension gives you the ability to simply right-click an image and select one of four reverse image searches, sauceNAO, IQDB search, TinEye and Google’s reverse image search. Here is the extension for firefox, and here is the link for Google Chrome.

Image taken from the Google Chrome Web Store.

You can easily look through the results of the different search engines.

3. HELP! My image can still not be sourced after I did all that!

Now is the point where you should consider if you even want to post the image. Some artists do not like their art reposted outside of their own blogs/accounts (I know quite a few pixiv artists who think like that). Since you do not know the source, you also don’t know their opinion on it. When in doubt, just don’t post it.

If you really, really can’t keep it to yourself any longer, you can tag your post with ‘source needed’ and write that you didn’t create the image. Maybe someone else knows the artist and can link you to the source. But at the very least, people can easily tell that you didn’t create this and do not make false assumptions.

That’s so much work, the artist should be happy I am distributing their work!

Maybe they are happy for the added attention, but without source, how should anybody know who did it? The attention will not be directed in their direction. Just imagine someone sees that really awesome fanart on their dash and want to know more about the artist, but there is no source and the blog it was posted on is not the one of the creator. 

If you indeed add source, people can check out the other stuff that person created and tell them in person that they like their creations. 

On top of that, most artists don’t track all the different art platforms their art could possibly be posted on. It is highly unlikely that an artist will notice a repost of their art and therefore see the notes on it. 

But I never said it was my OWN, I didn’t steal anything!

Let’s approach this like a scientific paper is approached. Everything that isn’t cited or linked back will automatically be assumed to be your creation.

Not posting a source and not writing it down for everybody to see that you are not the original creator indicates that you did indeed create this piece.

TL;DR

Please source the art you post, it is not as big of a hassle as you might think of. Be respectful, add a source.

Little hiatus will be going on. Mostly because I’m basically feeling a soul-crushingly enormous lack of motivation over everything and this blog is included so yeah

We’ll be back to real action soon, probably with an artist spotlight

- Chase

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOURCING

lolo-in-8bits:

It’s been quite a bit since I wanted to do a post about it but I was waiting for the never ending “edits VS original war” to calm down (won’t talk about it anyway but…yeah) , since people just doesn’t pay real attention when there’s drama going on…. So here it goes!

• Sourcing is a way of giving credit to the artist. Either if you are a reblogger, someone posting a picture that’s not yours, an editor or simply a fellow tumblr user appreciating some pretty art: Sourcing is the simplest way of showing the artist of that picture you like, your appreciation and respect!
• Sourcing doesn’t take much time (even less with nowadays tecnoooologyyyyyyy~)
• If you are an editor, it’s important to source not only your creation, but the original too!
• Sometimes a pic is watermarked and contains the original url, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to source it! Remember, a source is ALWAYS appreciated.

There are a few ways of sourcing stuff here in tumblr:

• You can put a link in the description (either with the name of the artist/picture or within the picture itself in text post)that links you to the artist web/profile or original art 

       

• In picture post, you can source by turning the picture itself a link. You can do that by clicking the “Set a click-through link” button and then pasting the url in the box that will appear

       

•  and last, you can source by the tumblr sourcing system! That’s the easiest/fastest and you only have to paste the correct url in the “content source” box and the post will automatically have the source link.

       

Yes, yes I knooooooow: most of the time it’s hard to track a picture until you find who the original artist is, right? Well, gladly, we can count with some cool apps that will make the source giving procedure way easier.

• Google reverse seaching will help you look for the pages that the picture itself can be found in. To use it joust go the the “search image” page in google and click the little camera icon in the searching bar, then upload the picture itself and voilá!

• IMAGE SEARCH OPTIONS (dowloadable links below) is the name of a really useful app you can install in both Chrome and Firefox that will save any soucerer’s life!~ To use it, you only have to right click the picture you wanna find the source of and then select the searcher you wanna look it in! 

      

I hope you found it useful and SOURCE SOURCE SOUUUUUUURRRRRRCE!!!!

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Artist spotlight - prologue

sourcecops:

So, because I don’t want this blog to be a boring piece of shit that only yammers on with huge-ass texts about art all the time, and I like spreading out art and helping artists be more recognized, I want to do a thing.

Artist spotlights! At least like one every two or three days, something like that depending on how it goes. With proper permission from the artists themselves, I want to make a post showcasing some of their art and talking about it a little. Maybe even make a little interview with them or something, we’ll see how that goes.

For this to happen, I sure as hell can’t use only my personal tastes, though, because I don’t know THAT many artists.

Therefore, I’d like for you to suggest me some artists that you like in my ask, or by reblogging this post or whatever! Point me to an artist’s tumblr, or deviantart, or pixiv, or whatever. Doesn’t matter where or which fandom, as long as I can actually contact them and they’re not some huge name on the artistic industry already.

I’ll take the suggestions and make a list for a little poll, and ask people for their votes. When all is said and done, I’ll take the first three artists and spotlight them along the week, after contacting them and getting proper permissions.

Got any artists to suggest?

Artist spotlight - prologue

So, because I don’t want this blog to be a boring piece of shit that only yammers on with huge-ass texts about art all the time, and I like spreading out art and helping artists be more recognized, I want to do a thing.

Artist spotlights! At least like one every two or three days, something like that depending on how it goes. With proper permission from the artists themselves, I want to make a post showcasing some of their art and talking about it a little. Maybe even make a little interview with them or something, we’ll see how that goes.

For this to happen, I sure as hell can’t use only my personal tastes, though, because I don’t know THAT many artists.

Therefore, I’d like for you to suggest me some artists that you like in my ask, or by reblogging this post or whatever! Point me to an artist’s tumblr, or deviantart, or pixiv, or whatever. Doesn’t matter where or which fandom, as long as I can actually contact them and they’re not some huge name on the artistic industry already.

I’ll take the suggestions and make a list for a little poll, and ask people for their votes. When all is said and done, I’ll take the first three artists and spotlight them along the week, after contacting them and getting proper permissions.

Got any artists to suggest?

re: policy over deleting artist’s comments on reblogs

wow I just noticed that I completely danced around that question earlier

On an actual concrete answer instead of philosophic text, our policy against those kinds of people… well, we’re… neutral? It’s something worth talking about with the people who do it, trying to educate and/or reprimand them, but it’s not something worth reporting over, neither is it even possible to report over, I believe. Tumblr’s reblog system basically allows you to fuck around with a post as much as you like before posting it, so unless you are doing something else other than deleting the caption (changing it to something the artist didn’t say at all, etc), most of the time all it’s worth is a “hey, please don’t do this because _______”, a slap in the wrist and hoping they won’t do it again.

Wow! 100 followers already :)

I didn’t think we’d have so many supporters in so little time! Specially for something I thought not a lot of people would care about…

Thank you all for being here! I promise I’ll try to make following this blog worth your time lmao

- Chase