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F/Finland. Art blog. I draw a webcomic and lurk in a fandom or two!
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Nov 20 '12

fuckyeahfuckno asked:

Oh jeez, I'm so glad to hear that I'm not the only one who remembered just what inspired them to a story or a character. A project of mine that started small but that I want to get big now is half-based on some wacky interpretation I had of some picture - which, after months, I recently stumbled across on my PC. And I thought. "AM I IN TROUBLE NOW." But it's okay to get inspired to a certain degree. R-right...? ;_;

The thing with Jasper’s design was intentional because I didn’t expect him to become an important character and simply borrowed the looks of an actor I liked at the time

I suppose everyone gets the occasional realization that they’ve ripped off something by accident. I’m terrified of the possibility myself so whenever I come across a cool thing I get a “DON’T IMITATE THIS” sort of reminder banging in my head… yet it still happens where I least expect it :D but that’s kind of a given, right. If you spent your whole life inside a blue room you could only paint blue rooms because that’s all you ever saw. Really the only way to create a new thing is to consume other things and mix those up

Good luck with your project, I’m sure you’ve molded it into your own brainchild by now, anyway :)

  1. selladorra said: At lot of famous things are inspired works. Orwell claimed his book 1984 was highly inspired by “We”, and you can see the similarities. As long as you’re honest about it and aren’t actually stealing ideas…
  2. ered-jaeger said: I once wrote a short comic and got it half way inked before I realized the idea was pretty much ripped straight from another comic 8D
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