Inspiration & copying is different Closed

Art means Creating in all its forms either it’s a dance , music , fashion , writing , painting etc… and it goes on forevermore 

Inspiration is part of art

Copying is not

And I think copying comes in many forms and one of it is “trends” it’s a Trend everyone is doing it, you didn’t make or create it so no I don’t think that’s art (Unless u started the trend)

And that’s my opinion on this though copying is not bad at all! copying and claiming its art and something u created is bad!!

I agree claiming you did it is a big no no!

there's a massive grey area you're not seeing. copying point blank from someone else's work and taking all the credit for it is bad, but "steal like an artist" is something i had to learn how to do and it took many years. a lot of artists need to learn how to properly steal stuff. and no that does NOT mean use AI.

a lot of the things in my pictures are things i didn't make myself--assets that i either paid to license to use or have permission by the artist to use for free, ie free clip studio assets. i also do a lot more tracing than people realize. That's usually a combination of digital manikins and photographs i took myself (either of old buildings outside or objects i staged for the piece). 

once upon a time i would have called this cheating/stealing because i didn't draw the whole thing entirely from my imagination! but it's actually how most successful commercial art is created. nothing in a creative space is original except your personal spin on existing things.

now go steal somethin' and make me proud.

This topic makes me think of Andy Warhol and the famous Campbell's Soup Cans series. He didn't create the soup, packaging, or advertisements. He took something that people see everyday and turned it into art. Some do not agree that he created art because he took something that already existed and copied it multiple times in different color varieties, etc. To me, it's art and it's his art. He painted it, but it's more than that. It was the intent of why he chose that particular item and how he chose to use it. He wanted to show the world how something cheap and ordinary could be worthy of fine art. I think a big part of art is also what you are trying to say to the world. If that means you have to "borrow" then so be it. Because art is what you can get away with, right (according to Andy)?