eleathyra

Dreame App keeps stealing my art in the worst way possible. They not only steal it, but seeing that they very carefully remove any credit, signature and other indications of where the art comes from, makes it very clear that they are aware of what they're doing is wrong. I've tried to contact them, reported them to Facebook many times, but nothing seems to work. So I've made a video, and even though there's only a slight chance that it will get more than a few dozen views, I wanted to try - because I don't know what else to try.

This thought, together with a feeling of disappointment, was pretty common for me when browsing art online back in 2011. I would find beautiful pieces, but on discovering it was digital art, not like or share them. I felt the artist was cheating. It wasn't real art. It actually filled me with a sense of resentment and bitterness, because this "new stuff" got a lot of attention - attention I didn't think it deserved. No, I'm not 80 years old. I was in my twenties, and mainly working with color pencils. So how come I'm doing digital art today? And not only that, but actually working in a less artsy, but very technical way? 9 years ago I had just started sharing my art online for the first time. I would scan my artwork, but after a while I realized I needed to do some color correction to get a good result. Once I used paper that was too thin, so it got all wavy, and of course this affected the scan quite a bit. I tried to correct that, too, and while I was at it, I also removed a