friends help: My friend is stealing my ideas and getting all of the credit for my art, how do I tell her to stop? - Help.com

i had a friend EXACTLY like that, notice the HAD. one, she’s probably a lot louder than you and two, it’ll be hard to get her to stop if she denies shes doing anything. you could try having a friend who agrees with you there when you confront her so she cant deny it. but you should probably just stop being her friend and move on if she’s willing to cause you this much stress and push into the dark so she can shine.

I do have a friend, actually multiple, who know that she’s doing this and we’ve been discussing it. We’ve been planning to talk to her, but we don’t know how. Thank you so much for replying though, I’m sure that this will help, thank you so much!

lemonberrilub wrote:
I do have a friend, actually multiple, who know that she’s doing this and we’ve been discussing it. We’ve been planning to talk to her, but we don’t know how. Thank you so much for replying though, I’m sure that this will help, thank you so much!

np, just make sure you dont procrastinate to the point where it never happens and you just go boom
good luck though, I hope everything works out for the best :)

Thank you, I need my friend to come back from vacation though until I can take action.

Slap a copywright notice on all your work, citing who completed the work, then after a few times… LAWSUIT!

I dunno prolly not that simple… Im not too much help here sorry! Hope you find a way that works tho!

i use deviantART too. i have never had this problem (as far as i know) but i would just confront her and tell her that other ppl notice it too. she’s prolly getting all the attention tho b/c she’s prolly going around being all nice, friendly, and fake and advertising her work by saying “oh this is so cute! i love it! 3 u should check out my work(:” and then posting links to her gallery or work.
if she absolutely denies copying u and wants to b a stubborn liar and art thief and a terrible friend, then go on the deviations of the work she has copied, post a link to ur work, and say she copied ur work. r ur deviations posted before her copied deviations? do u mind posting links to ur and her deviations? i would love to c ur work and c what u r talkign about so i can better understand. art theivery is nothing u should put up with, especially from a friend

actually, it seems more like she’s using u as inspiration. but she’s crossing the line b/c she thinks she can get away with it. just confront her with her other friend when yall r hanging out and stuff. b like “so i noticed ur work looks a lot like mine. u’ve been using me as inspiration?” and ur friend should like chime and agree like “yea i noticed that, this charactrs clothes looked rlly similar to this one” like give an example of what she’s copied, but dont directly sayshe did.

and if she admits to using u for inspiration then one of u should tell her (suggest to her) that she should give u credit in the artist comments of her (copied) deviations, and post a link to ur gallery or deviations (she copied) in there too.

and then try to take it further, dig a lil deeper, from there and try to get into the matter of her copying ur poses. but dont b direct and say she’s copying ur poses. just somehow comment on how it looks a like. dont even hint that shes copying (tracing) ur poses.

like she could b drawing them from looking at ur work and not tracing the poses. i think its fine to copy someone’s pose, as long as u give credit to the person and u did NOT trace them. but if its this base stuff, i think its more likely she took the base and edited the arms and legs or whatever a bit b/c its so easy to do that with bases. idk if thats okay or not, but i defintely know its not okay if ur not giving the other person credit