Case #11 - Unravel

This blog post is about a user named Unravel
We'll be focusing on this picture in particular.

Which was first posted in her shop "Press any key to continue". It's apparently a premade and she wants 6000 credits for it.

See it for yourself

Now before we even get started I would like to point out how very weird her "style" is.


First there's this picture.

Posted in her shop

The hair, face, and skin look so realistic.
The only thing that is slightly off is the boobs being placed so randomly high and the fact that the head is a completely DIFFERENT tone then the rest of the body.


Then comes this picture.

Posted in her shop

The hair doesn't look like it was made by the same person.. The first picture I posted the hair had great detail and depth and now this example the hair looked like it was made by a beginner. The hair has no acknowledgement of any light source. They don't look like they were made by the same person.

Lastly this is a picture she made in a free thread which I can't find at the moment.

Posted in a free shop

Now this hair not only lacks depth but shape as well. Usually she makes things look so realistic but here as you can see it doesn't look EVEN CLOSE to the work she made before.


Her extremely inconsistent pictures did spark some interest. 
Then one day anonymous found a shocking discovery. 


This picture:

Was actually a poorly edited version of this digital painting made by Azurelle @ deviantart.

See it for yourself

Here's an overlay of the two images. Now you see how perfectly the faces match up.

Still not convinced? Well here's the pictures side by side I'm going to point out all the stuff from the original that Unravel missed editing out.

Side by side without my markings on it. In case my markings are making it hard to see something.

Nope there's no doubt that it's just an edited version of that picture.

And chances are she's doing it with ALL of her pictures.

You've been warned.

A late edit on December 9th 2010.

We get a heartfelt apology from Unravel!

So finally she realizes that tracing is wrong and she promises never to do it again!

Or so we think....

Quickly after her apology she posts this picture. 

Nope she doesn't credit anybody in her post so the "face anatomy" must be her own... Like she promised!

No of course not.

She stole this one from Sakimichan on deviantart.

Case #10 - Yesup

Yesup is probably the person who can be easily said to have stolen the most art in GASR.

Congratulations!

A lot of our previous proof was destroyed in the fire (group got deleted) but this is what we managed to save from the flames.

And Yessup deleted MOST of her stolen crap from her photobucket!!!!1

/sad face

Anyways let's start at the begging..

This is the picture that first caught our interest with Yesup.

The picture that started it all.

There was quite a collection of pictures that looked like the above all being claimed to be drawn by her.

To our confusion when we looked further into Yesup's photobucket we found pictures that looked like this..

Yesup is great at tracing drawing.

Talk about weirdly inconsistent. But interest in her eventually died down since nobody could find the originals.

Then one day we found some pretty odd looking display pictures made by Yesup. To nobodies shock she wasn't just stealing drawings she was stealing bits and pieces from other enhancements and slapping them in her own pictures.

Smart as Yesup is she deleted them all of her photobucket and unfortunately NOBODY thought to save the lulz.

This is the only picture that still remains.

Someone put marking on the DP to help her better position the face. Sadly the original was deleted.

But you can EASILY see how obviously copyied + pasted parts of the face are.

She doesn't even know how to position them correctly.

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Now we move on to more troubling things.

Apr 02, 2010 - Yesup enters iSungmin's request

April 14, 2010 - Yesup gets bored and decides to doodle over the forums.

Wow.. picture speaks for itself.

Well this looks nothing like the things she draws usually even if it is just a doodle...

Looks like a 10 year old drew it...

April 20, 2010- Yesup makes a shop this is what her enhancements look like.

This is how Yesup enhances without stealing parts from other people.

You would think with her drawing skill she'd be better at making enhancements? Not to be rude or anything...

May 22, 2010 - Yesup enters Withered's request.

This is a "collab" she claims to have done in real life that took her 4 weeks.

(Please note that when she posted the request hadn't even been open for four weeks olol)

View the thread yourself

The before:

The after: 

First off it doesn't even look like the "reference". Like were did that necklace even come from? Secondly this is a drawing by an artist named Mary Klinge. Here's it in her photobucket.

June 13, 2010 - Yesup posts an experimental headshot in the pricing and critique thread.

See it here.

This being her headshots.

This headshot she claims to have made herself is actually traced. The original art was made by kiminess from deviantart.

See it for yourself.

Here's an overlay of the two images to show you how clearly traced it is.

As you can tell by putting all of her art together there's NO WAY they were drawn by the same person. She goes from animu, to realistic, to 10 year old and then back again.
Not only does her style jump but we have proof that she traces.

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But wait there are even more lulz to be had in her photobucket.

LOL WHUT? Could this be her original artwork? 

We'll never know for sure.. but it looks more like her doodles then anything else she does.

These are some of Yesup's newer chibi examples.

This one..

This traced drawn Chibi that was uploaded earlier in Yesup's gallery looks very familiar to this new chibi she drew.

Hmmmm.

Lastly wth is Necroberry's art doing in Yesup's photobucket?

AND no I'm not suggesting that Yesup is Necroberry. I just wonder why it's there...

For what evil purposes is she using that picture for!!

Edit - March 21, 2011


Some person gave Yesup the link to the blog.
//Seriously IT ANNOYS ME MORE THAN ANYTHING WHEN PEOPLE GIVE THIEVES A LINK TO THE BLOG
LIKE FUCK.

Anyways, Yesup apologized for what she did and claims she's done stealing.

To me this seems sincere.
Also I personally have seen her new work and nothing seems as "sketchy" as it used to be. Her new stuff looks like it's actually been made by her.

Of course, she's not going to gain everyone's trust over night. Nope, she'll have to earn it and work hard to post WIPS maybe do a couple of livestreams here and there just so people will learn to trust her again.

Good luck Yesup and I do hope that you do try and do things authentically.
Your new work looks MUCH better than the stuff you stole anyways.

We will not stop watching, of course. c:

Case #9 - Clingey

So this is the case about Clingey.

Yes she is the girl that  "innocently" made her username "BunnyShocks" and cause quite an uproar for coying Bunnysock's name.

You might also know her as Kawaiicrush.

Anyways one day in the Critique and Pricing thread Clingey posted these two icons below.

See it for yourself.

WOW both of these icons look very familiar to these two made by Frailty do they not?

Clingey's Icon #1

Frailty's Icon #1

Clingey's Icon #2

Clingey's Icon #3

No not just familiar she obviously took the borders from Frailty's icons and slapped them on her own creation. 

I mean you have to be blind not to see it

Well someone caught on but a stunned Clingey does her best to deny that she ever took anything from Frailty.

See for yourself.

Later Clingey makes a shop (which was deleted before I could screencap it) and then tries to pass off this icon as original work.

Again this icon has the border taken from an icon made by Frailty! Not just that but the loading bar was taken from lollirot's icon. 

Frailty's Icon

Lollirot's Icon 

You can see by the overlay animation below how perfectly the borders match up.

Clingey tried her hardest to prove that it was just some sort a coincidence that all these borders seemed to match up perfectly and she didn't steal them just was "inspired" by them. However, FOUR thefts make it kind of hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt.

She eventually admitted her theft.

Today she claims that she has learned her lesson and that stealing stuff gets got her nowhere and she is very sorry.

We truly hope you've learned your lesson.

Case #8 - GlTTE

So this is the post about GlTTE (which makes me very sad).

You may have known her better as Rameboez.

Anyways she entered Pop's Art Contest (several times) but this is the entry that we will be looking at.

See her post for yourself.

Her entry being this...

It looked oddly familiar. 

Luckily anonymous found why this picture looked so familiar. 

This is the original drawing made by a deviantart artist named gueuzav IN 2005.

See it for yourself

As you can tell GlTTE traced this drawing for Pop's contest.

Here's an overlay for further proof.

An overlay of the images. I didn't even have to resize GITTE's drawing it fit on it perfectly.

When GlTTE was confronted about it she said something along the lines of..
"I didn't know I was doing something wrong! I'm bad at poses!"

Drawing isn't like a pixel doll were it's acceptable to use a "base" hun.

Pop made no comment when the proof was sent to her but she didn't award GlTTE any prizes for this drawing at the very least.

But she did win a whole bunch of other credits for her other art.

Which makes you wonder did she also trace them too?

Case #7 - Virudical

The user Virudical made a shop on Gasr in the past and took 3 of the following pictures from Sakimichan from deviantart and altered them by changing the color tone, level, and edited the hair by drawing on her own hair. Then she sold these images.

 

This one is originally from here

 

This one is originally from here

This one is originally from here

She admitted to taking the images and claimed that she "learned her leason".