Armin Mersmann ripoff
 

Armin Mersmann is a graphite artist living in the United States who is renowned for the power and intensity of his work. You will have to go far before you find an artist of his caliber who is so generous in spirit, helpful, and an all-round credit to the field of art.

http://www.arminmersmann.com/images/workingda2d.jpg

He has a website Artwork of Armin Mersmann which shows the range and ability he has developed over a lifetime of dedicated work.

Known as nimra on Deviantart.com he has an homage to his step-father that is available for people to use as a teaching aid, example, touchstone of the artists craft . . . call it what you will.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs7/i/200...__by_nimra.jpg

I just read in his journal how he has found a youtube ripoff by someone posing as the creator of his work in order to massage their own ego.


I thought I would put this up there as an example of what people-who-cannot will do in order to seem to be people-who-can. I was a little angry, and sickened, but in the main was more struck by the poverty and weakness displayed by the youtube poster.

It would be interesting to know if there are any 3-D repercussions in this low-life's life after such a tacky performance.

holy shit!

i could care less about the rip-off artist. probably because im still stunned at how awesome that fucking art-work is.

the term "graphite artist" brought a smile to my face. fancy pencils, man.

Jesus, those pictures are intense!

What exactly makes you think that he stole the work? He used his photo as a reference. The guy drew the exact copy, sure, but this mob mentality that I saw in YouTube comments and yours are more mind boggling than the fact that somebody decided to take credit for the original idea. It happens all the time and on a much, much bigger scale. People just get upset when they see the work they actually know get copied.

Well, boggled or not, I personally find it extremely distasteful that someone claimed to be the original author of a piece of work that was not his. He did not claim to be inspired by, nor was any credit given, or anything like that. A pure and simple claim to be the original creator.

Call it mob mentality. Maybe even choose to coddle the poor, misunderstood ripoff artist. I think he is a lowlife. Claiming to be the originator on any scale when you are not - that is a scummy thing to do.

btw, I reread my OP and was unable to find the place that stated I thought this work had been stolen. Comments and critiques of my post - that is what TFP is all about - but please do not tell me I thought or said what clearly I didn't think or say. I was/am bothered by the emptiness evident in the Youtube poster. And he didn't draw a copy, he erased a found digital file and then ran that erasure in reverse to make it look like he was drawing instead of removing. Cheap, tacky, and entirely lacking in any redeeming qualities that I could see.

theft happens in any area of art and business.. it's almost an artform in itself..and while it sucks that it happens like this, I really have only one conclusion..

I hate graphite art. I've been doing graphite all month for school and I fucking hate it with a passion. This guy is freaking awesome (original artist) and all that, but FUCK graphite.

Yeah, well. Shit happens. Life goes on and so forth. I can cite multiple examples of music theft. "Original artists" get called out on it, die hard fans of the victim form into a mob and down-rate the video (if it's on YouTube) or blog about it to vent. It sucks, but what are you gonna do?