I just found some of my art posted on someone’s wiki, with no credit to me. Ridiculously annoyed that they never contacted me, and they didn’t even bother to take the finished sketch.

Here’s some advice if you have a wiki or other website where you would like to include people’s fanart in the character section.

First: ASK THE ARTIST!!! Most artists would be thrilled to be featured on a website and get some extra traffic. However, just because most of us will say yes, doesn’t mean you can just skip the asking part. Some artists may not want that piece featured, or they may want to edit it before it is featured.

Second: CREDIT THE ARTIST!!! We would appreciate it, a lot! Just because you are not claiming the work as your own, doesn’t mean you’re not still robbing us of the aforementioned traffic. Your viewers may want to commission the artist or buy prints of the piece. How can they do that if they don’t know who the artist is?

This also opens the art up to theft. With no credit to the original image there is nothing to stop someone from claiming the work is theirs and selling prints to the people who visit your site.

Even if you do not get a lot of traffic, you are putting our art in a place we cannot control.

DO NOT POST WIP DRAWINGS! Just don’t. We post these for our followers to see as we work on an image. Please do not repost incomplete sketches. If we’re going to be represented outside of our galleries, we don’t want to be represented by an unpolished scribble.