User blog comment:NebulousViper/Anyone else noticing on DA?/@comment-5424911-20140531092658/@comment-53539-20140531111235

As a DA artist myself I know this is a vague topic. Tracing is not always seen as a form of plagiarism, as it is a issue that came up within this fandom already with songs like Coward Montblanc and Magnet during a certain "scandal". There is often nothing wrong with tracing, that there is a issue if it infringes copyright too much.

Still, I have my own gallery at DA and sell things too... To be honest... Ah... DA doesn't earn a artist much income overall and if she gets one or two sales, its a shock. I've been at this for a year now and earned 20 bit coins which someone donated. Be it, I'm trying to do professional work and not "fanart" or anything like that, but I'm not the only one on DA to be shocked when they ACTUALLY EARN MONEY on DA... :-/