#straycatj fanart

[daily-dragon-drawing]

Mr J dragon!! (With an annoying lil brother kofu dragon) 🤭

#74 & #75 - 流浪貓 (liúlàng māo / stray cat) & 威脅者 (wēixié zhě / menace) - My two favorite internet cats!!! A master and his apprentice 💖🐈💕🐈‍⬛💞

@straycatj I turned you into a dragon…I hope it’s ok……

#ask and you shall receive :3 #saving-stark #daily dragon drawing #dragon #art #year of the dragon #chinese artist #dragon art #dragons #art challenge #artists on tumblr #chinese dragon #daily drawing #drawing #digital art #straycatj #mr j #kofu #menace cat k #cat #chinese #cat dragon #dragon cat #creature design #artist on tumblr #artwork #fanart #straycatj fanart #drawing every day #drawing challenge

[chloematis]

“That’s true! I did! I crinkled this!“ A painting of my favorite post from @straycatj I hope my rendition of this dastardly crime did it justice

#straycatj #cat #cats #cat painting #cat art #pet portrait #cat portrait #fanart

[c-rowlesdraws]

こふたつ - kofutatsu

A wintertime picture for the wonderful blog @straycatj, inspired by Landlady's recent posts about Mr. J and Kofuku enjoying the kotatsu!

(Kofu is the black cat, and Mr. J is the toasted marshmallow)

小さな冬の絵❄️Jさんと小福ちゃんがコタツを楽しんでいる写真からインスピレーションを受けました。家主さん、猫の日常生活をtumblrと共有してくれてありがとう！

#猫 #cats #straycatj #mr j #stray cat j #menace cat k #fanart #my art

[minmocat]

i always think it’s quite cute to see pictures of @straycatj from this angle

#straycatj #stray cat j #my art #digital art #fanart #animated #artists on tumblr

[saldontdoit]

i made fanart of @straycatj​ and kofu!!

Jさんとこふを描いてみたよ！！

they’re humans because i can’t draw cats LOL

ねこのことちゃんと描けないから人間として描いてみたwww

i hope they (and the landlady) like it :D

彼たちも家主さんも気になるといいと思います^^

(P.S. sorry for my horrible japanese. i know i’m half but i should be better at it…!!)

(下手な日本語、ごめんなさい。ハーフだけど苦手だから勉強するのを頑張っています…！！)

#stray cat j #menace cat k #THEM!!!!!!!!!!! #i love them so much #thank you landlady for bringing us this content #fanart #saldontdoit

[artamos]

i wish people would leave straycatj alone. she brought up a great point that whilst its apparently acceptable to paint someones picture 1:1 copy in america and it be considered fair use. this is not a custom in japan, a professional and gallery artist wouldnt do this, i struggle to see how a professional artist in the states could get away with this without crediting the original photographer. because when i studied painting we were not allowed to use anything that wasnt free use and we were still required to include a source even then.. this is australia though but do you see where she's coming from, outside of america crediting a photographer is mandatory and also most cases you'd need permission to display the work in a gallery or auction.

another thing people are bashing her about is that she called them not a real artist and i think this is a little bit understood and blown out of proportion because in other rbs and posts she says that the painter isn't behaving as a professional artist or conforming to those principles. i also think its really stupid to hound her over wording like this. no ones ever mentioned it but straycatj is an ARTIST HERSELF for her photographs.

straycatj has often rb and praised fanart so its so silly to act as if she's entitled over her own copyrighted work. pointing out that people are harsh on how she phrases things in her non native tongue and asking for replies in japanese is justified. people are cruel to her on her wording but then can't speak a word in her native tongue, funny and ironic.

#0110

[1eos]

The jump to assuming any artist who defends not having their art essentially stolen or even downright traced is calling for heavy copyright laws is giving leech. It’s giving parasite. It sounds like bitches have no talent of their own. 🤭 there’s a difference between inspiration, homage, and straight up copying. If the straycatj lady leaves tumblr, I better not see people crying because it’s their fault for constantly screaming at her.

literally. like i didnt bother to answer back to that person bc they obviously aren't a creative but there are a lot of things in the art world that is legal but is frowned upon in a social way? like painting someone's photo, or doing a screenshot redraw is absolutely transformative and if you give credit and/or acknowledge its fanart it's fine. the waters just get muddied when you're making PROFIT off it 😭😭😭😭 and like i said you can hate that people don't want people to make profit off their work but you gotta see where they're coming from.

cuz its like no one can FORCE you to not copy their stuff and you're not LEGALLY in the wrong but in the social sphere of artists some ppl are gonna have a problem w you! and when you start selling w no credit it just makes the original creators less inclined to put out content bc they know randos are gonna make bank off them w absolutely no credit and then everyone cries that tumblr is nothing but tiktok reposts lol. and im sure it looks sooooooooo petty to someone on the outside and i'd never advocate for strict ip laws bc it would be a disaster but it is absolutely a problem that bigger creatives online (hobby or professional) constantly have ppl taking liberties with everything they post and it just frustrates them and then for whatever reason ppl think oh you're a big account get over it instead of showing ANY fucking kindness

#a lot of things in creative spaces are like #less legal more just giving consideration bc ip laws are amorphous and most ppl dont wanna go to court u know #theres a difference btwn taking a pose in a photograph and reworking it and painting something EXACTLY as is\ #and it kinda comes down to being mean

[tinybed]

honestly i’m glad i’m not the only one put off by how straycatj’s landlady is reacting to all this …. in situations like this i start off trying to understand where the offended party is coming from but like right away i just could not parse why she is so angry. i really think if the art had been presented like any other fanart it would have been praised and embraced by her but since it’s in a gallery… ?????

same loool to me it just comes off as someone who gets so much attention on a social media platform that they think they deserve special treatment. i could totally be wrong but thats why im saying like dude. you based ur whole persona on giving voices to your cats. sit down….

[noelashe]

i saw a fuckedup witchs heart dream in which iz was straycatjs landlady and they were a huge fan of my art and started to kinda copy it or get inspiration from it ao their art got super good and they started doung fanart showcases and iwas waiting for mine to be there i looked thru all my wilardo art it was wilardi conclusion afteralll and all of it sucked cuz i dont draw him it made me see wilardo arts i havent drawn though that kinda went hard and i might copy and draw myself

[goofballproximitysurveyor]

this straycatj drama is so bizarre i thought it was like. basic artist unwritten rules that tracing/copying is fine as long as you don't sell it without proper permissions. as far as i see people keep trying to make this about things that it's not like it's not about fanart or copyright law or even about tracing the main issue the straycatj lady seems to have is literally just that it was sold (which is like. an extremely reasonable issue. i dont understand why people are upset about her having this problem). i dont understand why people are making it into this huge fuss outside of like typical social media need to over-exaggerate drama

[betagrove]

I feel bad for the woman behind the straycatJ blog, imagine having your photo traced and then put up on display in a New York art exhibit with nary a mention of the source or context? I would be upset too, especially since she's an MFA herself. And then being harassed by people constantly in english over it because they willfully misinterpreted you. She has never said that using a reference photo makes you a fake artist, she literally reblogs fanart recreations of Mr. J photos all the time.

#fuck the people in her messages and notes #she's literally right. tracing has its place as a learning tool but #to put your traced painting up in an exhibit??? is shameful.

[beginnersmind]

the straycatj stuff is. something

i think “meme artists” are at worst, annoying, but wouldn’t equate it to full intellectual theft or anything like that. and i would still classify them as artists. they’re not my favorite (the genre of “some guy recreated popular meme images as paintings” has been overdone for half a decade now) but it’s still an artistic practice

seems odd that landlady is so caught up in this one. does she want compensation? she shares lots of paintings and fanart of the cats. the guy likely doesn’t follow the blog or know the whole background involved. not that i intend to defend him much either, but idk. very bizarre.

love spending my saturday morning involved in cat blog drama

[doctorbunny]

Of all the things I woke up to I didn't expect "Landlady from the straycatj blog getting into an bilingual argument on copyright over a painting of one of her cat photos"

Anyway, if you see this, before barging in with your own take, please first consider:

1) Japanese, American and UK copyright laws are all different, the artist may be working from a different idea of what's acceptable compared compared to you (especially if you learned about copyright from 2010's Internet critics) or Landlady

2) Photos can have trademarks but that's usually stock photos, in the UK/EU there's some privacy laws if the Photo has your face in it. But a cat photo uploaded to the Internet wouldn't be covered by this

3) This is more a battle of courtesy than copyright, Landlady has liked and encouraged (what was probably also heavily referenced/traced) fanart of her cats before. The difference is that those artists link back to the blog/@ her and don't start selling the art

My limited understanding of Japanese copyright (albeit from big corporations not individual cat blogs) is that stuff is quite lax (but this is more of a grey area of generosity) until you start profiting from anything then the legal hammer is swift. This is where you see stuff like ghibli not wanting any movie clips in reviews of their movies or Nintendo wanting let's players to be part of their specific partner program before streaming the latest Mario game

In summary: The art (taking a photo of cats and painting it on canvas/linen) is transformative. Like, lots of painters paint over traced sketches of photos, it's not 'easy' like a photoshop job to do and requires additional artistic skills to do well ('photoshop job' as in taking a pic and putting a filter over it, not digital painting in general) Although I'd this dispute got to courts it'd depend on the country as to if it was ok to sell.

But it would've been better if the artist just mentioned the heavy straycatj reference or contacted Landlady before selling their art

(Given that the artist is selling other 'meme cats' I wonder if they even knew the source of the photo they referenced beyond being a funny cat image...)

#rambling #most takes have already been said a million times #please don't be weird to the cat blog over this

[stop-entropy-lie-down]

nooo straycatj fanart gatekeep saga :/

EDIT: i was reactionary here. or at least i reacted before learning abt the situation much, if that's what that means. not a fan of having done that. landlady i apologise

[spartalabouche]

for the record i think regarding the discourse w straycatj and the guy who painted her cats without permission (and put it in an art gallery and is selling it in a book if not just as an art piece for real money as well???) i think landlady is completely in the right and i think youre a giant cunt if youre using her being upset that someone one to one copied a photo of her cats without asking for a professional piece of art to say that she loves copyright laws and is suing the guy for painting her cats or something. shut the hell up. she obviously does not mind when people make art of her cats because she reblogs fanart all the time. it was disrespectful and hes making MONEY off of it. shut the hell up being like well *i* would be flattered its not about YOU

#txt #gekkering

[catcrumb]

one of my top 5 internet cats ( @straycatj )

(“of course i am the one. how could it be anyone else?”)

#crumb #fanart #heheheheh. the exciting conclusion!! #thank you to a certain user for the translation help :) this is meant to be in an informal/rude tone #straycatj #my second fanart of him... #cremecrumb