
Okay guys, here's the deal. As you all know, I pretty much never complain about art theft/copying of my work, because in general it doesn't bother me. Young kids making banners and web layouts out of my designs? Fine. People copying/drawing inspiration from my work? Fine. Everyone has to start somewhere. Who wasn't heavily influenced by another's work when they were first learning how to draw?
Then there's a more gray area of art theft, like people impersonating me and selling my stuff on Gaia (little do they know I have a Gaia account, haha!) or entering vector traces of my art with changed hair colors into T-shirt design contests.
However; recently some of you have been noting or emailing me telling me that Diva, a chain of stores that sells 'cute/hip/fashionable' accessories and 'draws inspiration' from all around the world, has been selling rip offs of my cute animal studs. Now, normally I would say, "Well I mean, they're just cute animal faces...it's not like I invented a happy koala or bear," but it's obvious that everything from the head shape to the face is a direct trace.
Photo courtesy of ~pwincessbri Thank you sweetie!

Diva's rip off earrings. As you can see, they didn't even bother to change the shape of the nose on the koala or the face on the mouse. If you overlay my design to their earring in Photoshop, you'll see that it's exactly the same. :/




This company has had a bad history of ripping off other artists here on DA, Shanalogic, and elsewhere. There's probably nothing I can do about this besides spread the word and tell people to boycott them. So please, for the sake of all the artists who are having their works ripped off by these vultures, please spread the word! 
Thank you!

Commission List
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Chibi of her OC and matching keychain
2. Open!
3. Open!
4. Open!
5. Open!
Finished List
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Kazezakura chibi and cupcake commission.
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Sunshine-hime 3 chibi group image.
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ZetaAdele 100x100 icon of two bunnies.
4.*
Kazezakura 3 50x50 matching cake icons.
5.~
chibineko3 Chibi of Sora from KH, lion form.
6.~
slyfoxesq 100x100 icon of grey fox.

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ive ALWAYS disliked diva and this gives me all the more reason to not shop there. your designs are amazing though !
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I can't wait until I can buy stuff from your website
I love the earrings <3
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