[Yokuutsu]

This tumblr user, did they just post their version for storage reasons?

Be cause if I did something like that and posted it, one: might not know the original artist because other people steal (if there's no watermark) and post it two: might not think of tagging the artist due to the fact that part of it could be original....but mainly due to just not thinking about it.

This makes me think of the people who do parodies/whatever including like a Dali painting or something. We don't say well, that part doesn't belong to the artist, they shouldn't make money/a career off of it.

Of course, I don't know how much tracing or anything this user did. If it's more of a photoshop type thing where they just changed the colors, well, they should still be able to post it, but they shouldn't be like LOOK WHAT I DID! (unless they note they mean the color, not the actual thing). But plenty of people will trace a base and I don't think that that alone should be held against a person, but tracing too much? Of course. (If I traced, I might not credit either due to it slipping my mind or something, but if someone asked me to draw something for them, I'd be like, I traced the base...of course I don't draw because I suck at it, so no worries on me doing that)