Originality
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
What's that?
As stated earlier, this week's theme on Illustration Friday is "Hoard."
It's late and it's not like I have any homework, so I've been blog-stalking, as well as checking up on new IF entries, which explains my discovery:
The one on the left, from neublau | Illustration Berlin, is one of my favourites this week. The one on the right was submitted after the aforementioned and is from Albiona, from a deviantART account.
Uncanny, no? Especially when one imagines the second one flipped 90 degrees clockwise:
I'm not going to make a formal accusation of plagiarism, because one can never be too sure of that with the visual arts considering the fact that different people are often inspired by the same thing. With a forum like Illustration Friday, where there is a specific word or idea, there are bound to be repeats of ideas and symbols since many people think similarly.
I give the creator of the second entry the benefit of the doubt and hope that the startling similarities are mere coincidence, and if I've misunderstood then I do apologize. However, I think the comparison truly speaks for itself, as I can not really explain how nearly identical the two pieces are.
Labels: art, design, hoard, illustration friday
posted by GMH @ 23:47,
