[Mica]

O-O Wow, no one has actually ever stolen my arts. It's kind of nice actually, I'm not like, strict on it either, I put a simple sample, get payment and send arts.

I'm sorry they did those things though, that's horrible. :c I'd get extremely irritated if that happened to me. I don't get it sometimes, apart from practice you don't really have much to gain... and the risk of being found out is just, ick. And after that you art-rep kind of dies. :C

I'd give that person a whoop-assbeating. >:C

I actually save people's arts (whether it's a commission for someone or whatever) but I never post them around. Ever. XD I also trace, but not art. I mostly eyeball model-pictures/trace, but I try very hard not to out right copy it, I modify it one way or another. I can safely say I don't eyeball/trace anything when I draw official pics though. I trace sometimes for fun, I never make anything out of it but it just showed how lame I was at that certain position. LOL.