I don't see what's so wrong about watermarking art... as for the size, it's just the artist's taste. So what?
a) If the art gets reposted elsewhere, people can find the artist's website, and see other pictures by that person and read how the picture came about, instead of having it all mixed up in a great jumble of different people's work on 4chan or Photobucket. Haven't you seen a picture reposted and wished you could see more by the artist?
b) Who is 'fandom'? Everyone on the Internet? I can't speak for others, but personally, I don't draw for fandom. I draw for people I know, my friends, and mainly for myself. I don't claim ownership of the characters I draw (except my own), but yes, I have an emotional investment in my own art.
c) You're neglecting one major reason people watermark art - preventing others from taking it and passing it off as their own. Even people who don't mind their art used for various purposes (everything from icons to skeevy people on eBay making pins out of other people's work and selling it) might object to somebody else pretending to have made their picture.
d) Well, yes, people do draw fanart for respect and credit. They also write fanfiction, wear particular clothes, hang out with certain people, get certain kinds of jobs, etc. It can be argued that many great explorers and scientists and artists were motivated by that same desire, too. If you draw fanart selflessly and without thought of the comments you'll get, my hat is off to you. Or it would be, if I had a hat. (Which I don't.)
And as a side note, I doubt many people lose sleep over the fact that an anonymouse lost all respect for them. Why do people keep writing this?
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a) If the art gets reposted elsewhere, people can find the artist's website, and see other pictures by that person and read how the picture came about, instead of having it all mixed up in a great jumble of different people's work on 4chan or Photobucket. Haven't you seen a picture reposted and wished you could see more by the artist?
b) Who is 'fandom'? Everyone on the Internet? I can't speak for others, but personally, I don't draw for fandom. I draw for people I know, my friends, and mainly for myself. I don't claim ownership of the characters I draw (except my own), but yes, I have an emotional investment in my own art.
c) You're neglecting one major reason people watermark art - preventing others from taking it and passing it off as their own. Even people who don't mind their art used for various purposes (everything from icons to skeevy people on eBay making pins out of other people's work and selling it) might object to somebody else pretending to have made their picture.
d) Well, yes, people do draw fanart for respect and credit. They also write fanfiction, wear particular clothes, hang out with certain people, get certain kinds of jobs, etc. It can be argued that many great explorers and scientists and artists were motivated by that same desire, too. If you draw fanart selflessly and without thought of the comments you'll get, my hat is off to you. Or it would be, if I had a hat. (Which I don't.)
And as a side note, I doubt many people lose sleep over the fact that an anonymouse lost all respect for them. Why do people keep writing this?