Is doing USD art commissions allowed on FFXIV?

[JackHatchet]

Boi, I've been in the industry for 9 years. Please, check yourself out the door before you think you know better than a professional.

Nice response. It doesn't add anything to the discussion though. You tell me to check myself, and your best counter-point is "boi, I'm been around a long time." There's more than enough people in this world who have experience in a field who are completely clueless. Just look at American politics. Why don't you check yourself with some examples?

And hey, if you make a living off selling your own original ideas that's cool. But if you're saying that you make profit by selling copy-righted fan-art--then you're tip-toeing the line. Which is fine. You can break copy-right law. Just as long as you're cool with other people breaking the copy-right law too. Just don't be one of those "I hate art thieves, but then go on to steal concepts and designs for fan-art." I was calling out hypocrisy, and the only reason you could be so emotionally upset about it to personally attack me is if you feel like you're guilty of the actions I was calling out.

[Sigma-Astra]

Nice response. It doesn't add anything to the discussion though. You tell me to check myself, and your best counter-point is "boi, I'm been around a long time." There's more than enough people in this world who have experience in a field who are completely clueless. Just look at American politics. Why don't you check yourself with some examples?

It is a nice response for someone who claims to be an artist and yet knows very little of the actual field of study. If anyone is clueless in this entire thread. It's really you and your perspective. I have a Bachelor's and art is my major, that enough of an example for you? It's my career and hobby. And here you are...a hobbyist, trying to claim he/she knows more because....reasons.

And hey, if you make a living off selling your own original ideas that's cool. But if you're saying that you make profit by selling copy-righted fan-art--then you're tip-toeing the line. Which is fine. You can break copy-right law. Just as long as you're cool with other people breaking the copy-right law too. Just don't be one of those "I hate art thieves, but then go on to steal concepts and designs for fan-art." I was calling out hypocrisy, and the only reason you could be so emotionally upset about it to personally attack me is if you feel like you're guilty of the actions I was calling out.

Do you realize that in the field of art nothing is "original" anymore as it's been said and done by someone else way before you had the idea? You can sell fan art if it's done in YOUR OWN STYLE and no where close towards the original style that the creator used. I shouldn't have to spell this out for you, it's very easy to understand as evident by the rest of the posters in this thread.

If any part of your logic was true then anime conventions would have been put out of business a loooooong time ago and so would the comic book industry. It's not okay to take something that SOMEONE ELSE drew, that you maybe found on DeviantART and then re-post it with a line saying "Hey! Look what I made!".

Do you need a megaphone and a klaxon to get that through your head?

And no, I'm not emotionally upset, I'm confused how you think you're making any sense while the world is clearly burning around you. You didn't call out anything, you gave a misinformed opinion, people called you out on it, and now you're flailing to make a stand.

You're a problem for the rest of artists.

"Hey guys! It's okay if you steal my stuff! I don't care!"

You're making it easier for thieves to think it's okay to do this for everyone. You are part of the issue.