Haha! After reading some of those silly "How to Be Popular on deviantART' news articles and the comments received I wanted to test the whole 'mysterious deviant' thing and see if it was true. People seem to get a little put off about all the hidden comments on the front page after all. o_O Oh well, I guess I need to find another hobby now -_-
The first step to preventing art theft of course is to protect yourself and
deviantART provides means in which to take that first step. Also I have tracked down the person-in-question already and in fact know who it is. For those of you from
aeRO you may recall the individual who went by
Lucifer on the
#aeroPUB channel. Well, he is the culprit who has already admitted himself to my fiancee(~
Artemysia)and myself that he was pretending to be me and use some of my pictures in order to get some credit on various websites. We had both told him that this was not acceptable, but received no cooperation from him at that time. To date he has toned down his actions involving my art and I believe he knows I am on to him. I am only passively pursuing this incident, but keeping up with his whereabouts as best as I can. If you are so inclined to check on him he has been known to frequent the sites listed below:
For more information please check out my journal
West Coast
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