xXxLady ButterflyxXx
I understand what your saying about Eyeballing, however the art as a whole wasn't copied or anything so to speak. I only used the pose of the art. For example: I have a poster in room of Yuki from vampire knight. Now if I'm looking at the poster and I draw the pose she is in, but not draw the character herself. Add my own hair, clothes and face designs, is it considered eyeballing or stealing of any kind? I personally would not consider it to be.
And now anytime I post in forums I'm disliked and hated. Bad mouthed. When in truth I worked really hard on it. I didn't steal anyone's ideas. I re drew the pose. I changed it up even. Moved the position of the arms, changed the size of the large thighs and thinned them out, changed the thin caves and thickened them. I re portioned the entire body structure. One detail I did keep and re drew exactly was the way the tail was positioned.
The hair was my Gaia avatars hair, the corset is highwire belladonna, however instead of black and pink it's Purple and pink. and etc, but none the less I didn't steal the drawing or her character design.
I removed the piece, that I spent hours on. Did as she asked. But she has yet to stop all of the hate.
I contacted a Site Mod, and I'm waiting for a reply as of right now.
I haven't seen the art you're referring to, so I can only take your word for it, as would a moderator unless you show them. Eyeballing or not, they had no grounds to approach you in the way they've done after you removed the work.
They are within their rights to
request you to remove the work. You don't have to obey, if, as you've said, the work was very different. They may report you anyway, as would be procedure if there was any art theft as per the rules and guidelines, and then it would be up to a moderator to decide.what to do with the case.
But it is in my opinion that anything public they did after they communicated with you privately and you took down the work that bothered them, was unnecessary and thus harassment. You're well within your rights to report them for it. If you want her comment deleted, report it and explain the situation in the comment box.
You can report anyone harassing you over this matter, if they directly attack you. If they make a comment about you in another thread, if you see anything like that, report it.