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I've finally finished Pure Style skin. Please comment and give suggestions if possible.

nice ...

Not bad Cortez, i like your markers the most.

It makes me weak in the knees.

maybe you should have asked Zenko before making a "replication" of his skin :-"

Indeed. It is unbelievably similar.

Yeah, it is.

But it still looks nice, you might want to make it more original though.

WOW, looks a lot like Zenkos skin

I looked around you forum to see if he was staff there or something, but I don't think you are affiliated with him...

http://designz.key-faith.com/Forums/




Edit: I see its being taken care of already..

I am always astounded when I see a "Art" community website that has stolen a design from somewhere else. Now, the design is not actually stolen, but it is so similar you might as well have.

It's pretty sad.

I thought Cortez had better in him

maybe colors be similar ... the other things we can tolerate as inspiration through seeing zenko's skin ...

if everybody can swear don't do the same sometimes ... then i'm wrong ...

in painting classes on universities at first the students start to copy wellknown pictures from wellknown painters ...

then after a long training time they started to make copies in a own style ...

and now after years all skills are trained by old or new techniques of master painters... the teachers force the students to find an own style ...

if that is ok and the right way there ... why in case of webgrafix are here most people mean to must critic a good own interpretation of the work from another ...

i only have seen from one of the hard critic people here real own work!

so everybody can come down ... and we all can live in freedom together ...

an who has to much energies unused, can start his own interpretation of zenko's skin ...

or make nice new gfx work or skins to make the community happy with fre or paid ones ...

only my 0,02€

've phun ...

I agree with all the above, I feel so sad and ashamed. I've starting skinning since 2003.. I've a very good knowledge in Graphics & Skinning designs. In february 2004, I made it to be on the skin team of the IFSkinZone. September 2004, I've been demoted from there for not completing one of my Staff Roles and after a while I got banned for complaining about the Staff team and other stuff. Now, I got really inspired and I dont know how the heck.. I riplicated a skin.. KFD's skin.

I'm sorry guys.. I think that I should just.. quit.

Which is all well and good, provided they only copy them for learning purposes and not to display in a gallery, IMO.

It's flattery, but how the skin author would feel about it depends entirely on why the skin was created. Permission should be seeked beforehand.

I design logos and stuff (but not IPB skins, God NO!)... most of my inspiration comes from the weirdest place, coffee cans, garbage, keyboards, etc...

And even other work of arts...

All I can say is that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... even DaVinci copied the image given by nature, a woman for Mona Lisa...

Kids learned from copying other drawings...

COR72Z showed a lot of potential as a skinner, even though another skin motivated him to "copy." But in his defense, his design can hold its own against the Zenkos one.

Given enough time, COR72Z could be as good as him.

Heads up COR72Z, we need all the skinners we can muster! As long as it's free!