Very nice talent! I must caution you about one thing.
Some people that have been here have done some disgusting things with artwork plagiarism and I'll give you an early tip now that can really help you.
- Step 1: Do some research on the subject by reading this:
Step 2 - Spend some time thinking about how to protect your photos. Maybe draw a thin line through them (like watermarking them) or something so they can't be used for things like this thief did for @stellabelle (For instance any thief can pull this image into their graphics editor and "easily" get rid of your signature and date. That's why watermarking or something similar can protect your image better)
Step 3: Find a way to produce a proof of artwork, maybe with URL https://steemit.com/@art-huntress as the address done all fancy or something, so people know you can actually draw and it is really you. This way, if a thief paid an artist to produce a drawing with a website URL in it, the true artist would obviously go click that link in their art to see what was shown and the thief could never get away with it.
See this other thief was paying a real artist to produce artwork and re-uploading it on his own account for votes.
However, if that thief told that original artist to make art out of a website link, he never could have gotten away with it so easily and for so long.
It's terrible that thieves of artwork have been here before, but they have. This might protect you and help you get recognized as the real artist if you follow these tips.
I hope that helps a bit? :)
Woow, I just read the story and I'm in shock. I can't believe how people are able to get to extremes for money. I myself have seen how people spam and publish things that are not their domain and it is really annoying, they don't let the real talent of others arise. Thank you, I appreciate you took some of your time to warn me.
I also made a post about you on my blog @intelliguy. This might help you get some more exposure to the great art you make. :)
P.S. When you wrote this:
That's ironic to me. Venezuela is going through severe crisis right now.. Surely you've read about some of this going on there? Going to extremes for food, money, etc ?
Yes, @intelliguy it's true that my country is going through a crisis, but despite that I don't approve dishonest behavior for any reason. I'm telling you as someone who has been hit hard by this crisis like so many... I'm aware that there are people who have done much worse things, but I never stop being surprised by these kind of things, maybe I'm too innocent.
I like/love you for that specific comment.
I believe the same.
You're someone special. There isn't enough of us out there yet. I hope one day I can see lots of us out there.
Thank you for helping her get started with the "prove yourself" process. I remember back when I joined Steemit I would do proof of process posts with my drawings (name/date) with my work until I got established for people to know/trust I only posted my own work.