Check our new characters , what do you think ? (theese were created for a 8+2 series of childbooks regarding cats and dragoons) .http://www.adsoftdesign.ro/illustrations15122004.htm
Any suggestions you may have , please post them :) .
Characters
By adsoftdesign | Saturday, December 18, 2004 at 6:06pm
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Characters
Those cats sure remind me of Sylvester and his cronies. And the dragons are also reminiscent of other work.
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
The cats are pretty familiar...But there are only so many ways I've ever seen dragons done, so I'd be hard pressed to ever say to someone "By Job! What an original dragon drawing!"
Adsoftdesign, you had better be aware that just changing something 30, 50 even 90% isn't going to protect you from copyright lawsuits. Time your creative talent came up with something fresh of their own.
Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.
Thank's . The cats and the dragoons are created by us , we did not copyed at all ... and if i remember Sylvester had a different look , and he was with black and white . Again , thank's for your opinions .
http://www.adsoftdesign.ro
I don't think he was saying you lifted anything, moreso just push for something fresh lest you get -accused- by someone who can create problems for you.
Example to back up my other post: I typed in "dragon drawings" in Google, and hit the image search. The -second- picture that came up is almost a color swap of one of your drawings...
http://www.dracoslair.net/BOOK.JPG
http://www.adsoftdesign.ro/Illustrations/15_12_2004/Blue_Dragon.jpg
Now, you didn't steal that, and there are differences (horns, wing size, back plates), but they're both built by the time-honored cliche's of how one draws a dragon.
As for the cats, he was talking about the henchcats or enemy cats that occur in some Sylvester cartoons, not Sly himself. I think he was merely saying yours fall under the 1940s/50s formula-cat drawing, very Warner-style, and that it's a blurry line between what's original and what's perceived as theft regardless of intention...
Thumbnail's a demo. I added highlights to the pupil of a Looney Tunes cat (not in a Sylvester cartoon, but having been around the block I know exactly what cats he's talking about and accident or not they're almost dead-on)...color the bottom of the first one's face and they're brothers.