I keep saying it time and again. I do not approve of alterations to my work. Not for bases, not for edits, not anything, unless in the slightest, most remotest chance I approve of such an alteration, in which case, I take upon myself to do it.

Today’s message is triggered courtesy a person who changed my work (Shining Armor’s replaced, signature removed) and tried taking it as their own.

Here’s why I don’t approve of bases or edits:

• Edits (obviously) removes the original intent of my work. Like in the artwork here. I had Shining Armor there supposedly disapproving of Flash Sentry, but now it’s an OC. Why would an OC do the disapproving? What’s the story there?
• Most unauthorised edits I’ve seen has a drop in image quality, like how Flash is on the one above. This is usually because it’s a stolen copy of my original and saved over as a shoddy .jpg file.
• Most bases and edits are of poor quality as well. With jagged lines scrawled over the line work of the original for recolouring or poor anti-aliasing in fills used to bleach the character off any detail for base work. Also, bases are used for other artists to put whoever they want on another artist’s work, which brings me back to the first point.

Combine all of that, throw in some non-attribution and you have one unhappy camper. Please don’t edit my work. I don’t want to be a jerk, but this needs to be said. If you want to use my work for things like wallpapers, do ask. I can’t enforce everything, but at least we can feel something about it.

More on permission regulations: http://dm29.deviantart.com/journal/dm29-Gets-Petty-About-Permission-458659576

I do know I’ve altered a piece of work to prove my point. Don’t bother pointing it out.