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Yu-Gi-Oh cards are not art stamp

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Allow me to elaborate:

Sticking some generic piece of official artwork or fanart of your fave character you found on a 2 second search on google into a pre made blank copy of a yu-gi-oh card is NOT art.

Sorry, they're not.

If you HAVE to make yu-gi-oh cards for the whole of the Super Smash Bros teams or the whole cast of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic because you think it would be fun to share with your friends then that's :star: FINE :star:, but it's not ART and it really shouldn't be in your online ART gallery. Photobucket or Imageshack maybe....

The exceptions are of course the original yu-gi-oh card artwork (which unless you're the original artist you shouldn't be reposting), artists who actually DO bother to draw their own pictures to put in the cards (heck even doodles in MS paint are better because at least the artist has drawn it themselves), and the people who re-paint existing cards to make something new and better

DeviantART is for your own artwork, not for you to repost the hard work of others without credit or consent. That's just rude...and disrespectful. Plus it's against the rules of DA

FAQ #157: Can I use things created by other people in my submissions?
FAQ #257: What sort of permission do I need to use someone else's work?
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?
FAQ #94: Can I use the works which I find on deviantART?
FAQ #502: Can I submit things which I made using different "games" like a doll maker or with other character generators?

Those are the rules you signed up for when you joined this ART SITE. This is not a matter of arguing semantics, it's AGAINST DA POLICY.



IMPORTANT: READ THIS BEFORE SENDING ME HATE
No I'm not hating on yu-gi-oh or the people who like it. The card game is pretty damn cool, and I love Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged. I've seen this happen with Pokemon and Magic the Gathering cards too, but yu-gi-oh cards seem to be the most common.

I also don't care if you want to make new cards for a laugh with your mates. But host that stuff on your own site, or photobucket, it shouldn't be on DA.
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Well, art is creation so technically it is art. However, it's low art and plagiarism. Not a good combo.

Crazily enough, there's a fake Yu-Gi-Oh! card out there that haunted me for so long. Years ago, someone I used to talk to suddenly came to me, telling me "Oh, I made art for you!" He sent me a link to some forum and what I got was one of those stupid cards with stolen art of someone else's fan character and my username at the time on it.
On top of being frustrated that I was given stolen art as a gift, I was afraid that someone would find it and attack me over it. After all, said fan character was VERY popular at the time and I was in the same fandom as her creator (her creator pretty much ran the whole fandom too).
Even though I asked him to delete it, he never did. So, unless that forum went down, it's probably still there to this day. It's been like 10 years at least so I'm pretty sure I'm in the clear. It's still a little embarrassing though. lol