Is doing USD art commissions allowed on FFXIV?

[HyoMinPark]

People just like to assume that it's ok to draw fan-art, because it's 'for fun,' and those artists make so much money anyways--it probably doesn't hurt them. But the moment someone tries to steal their work--all heck breaks loose! And you can see those reactions clearly in this thread so far. But the bottom line is, when it comes to 'stealing' -- people can't just say "my stealing is ok, but other's stealing is bad" and that's the problem I have with the art community. Either be ok with all (non profit) stealing like fan-art, fan-fiction, tracing, ect, or start policing yourselves and call out fan-art as theft of concept and design.

Clearly, you don’t understand the difference between someone creating a piece of fanart/fanfiction “for fun”, and an individual taking a piece of artwork—the physical work of art—that someone else made and claiming they made it.

There is a difference between someone creating a non-profit piece of fanwork (art or fiction), and someone taking the work someone else did and saying “I did this!” Fan artists and fanfiction writers typically do not claim ownership of characters and/or concepts that they have borrowed from an original work. They do, however, claim ownership of the piece of work they made with their hands, be it artwork or prose.

Tracing is something entirely different. At least fanart and fanfiction reflects the artistic style of the fan artist/writer; there is clear creativity involved in the production of it. Tracing is just you laying a sheet of tracing paper over someone else’s piece of work and copying it line by line, stroke by stroke. It’s the same thing as me opening my Harry Potter book and typing word-for-word Chapter 1. There is no originality or artistic flair to tracing, and I don’t consider it a legitimate piece of fanart.

I drew a Sailor Moon sketch. I never tried to sell it. I drew it “for fun” (since you’re all about the fun). I never claimed that Sailor Moon belonged to me; back when I did fanart, I always gave appropriate credit to any characters that didn’t belong to me (not that it needs to be said that I’m not Naoko Takeuchi, since that should be fairly obvious). But the art I produced with my hands did belong to me—the physical sketch belonged to me. Someone else taking my art and trying to pass it off as their own fanart creation is wrong—because they didn’t draw it; I did. And it’s not hypocrisy to be angry about it.