I seem to encounter an annoying number of people who only submit pictures they LIKE that they didn't actually create themselves and want to show other people. They, of course, rarely mention this in any of their artist's comments, and end up getting comments like, "wow! That's amazing!" and saying things like "thanks" in response, unaware that the person thinks they drew the thing themselves, though does end up responding to comments asking if the person drew it themselves with, "no, I only like it and want to show people!"
Some of these people submit these things as PRINTS though?! Agh...! I think deviantART might need to make it more obvious that you're only supposed to submit your OWN artwork, since it says nothing about that on the front page or the submission page or anything... (Though I wonder if they'd have to specify that you have to have actually DRAWN the image yourself since, if they just said "submit your own artwork", people might sillily think that a piece of artwork is "theirs" just because they have it saved on their computer in the same way they would think a piece of artwork is "theirs" if they had a print of it or something...)

Tsk, I've seen some really stupid situations relating to that too though... Like one person submitting some official image of SONIC from some game thing and then some other person who submitted the same image before them complains at them for submitting it because "it's MY image! I submitted it first, so it's MINE!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"It's okay, as long as you know it's mine."

o_O

People like that make me wonder how many people actually have creative hobbies or even realise that that artwork was drawn by *someone* who put time and effort into what they drew and instead think of the art they see as just some soulless product from some company or something? I often assume people DO have creative hobbies, but I also somehow end up forgetting that there's a whole world of people outside deviantART that I completely forget about because they uh... aren't the sorts of people who would be on deviantART or even spend much time at all on the internet! Which uh... shows how much time I spend on the internet. o_O

I wonder how many of those people would say things like uh... "you spent a whole HOUR on a drawing?! You have no life!"
I wonder that because of the story behind this piece of artwork. Tsk! =_=

And uh... yes. I'm ranting about things because I just encountered YET ANOTHER person who submits artwork that isn't theirs because they just want to show it to people when they can do that by either adding the image to their favourites or linking to it in a journal entry or something.

And uh... I'll also mention that I asked the doctor about my elbow thing and she said it might be golfer's elbow or tennis elbow and that it's probably caused by using it too much, so uh... I'm just mentioning that in case anyone is curious because of my last journal entry!