What is recoloring? Recoloring is taking someone else's artwork, changing the colors, and then claiming said art as your own. Sometimes the change can be discreate or sometimes it can be glaringly obvious. The most common way on this place that it happens? Through remixing. Of course there is some cases where using other's art is ok, as in using bases for a rp oc or CCs. However, in these cases it was made FOR others to use, and even still, the artist should be credited. Why it's not ok: Recoloring someone's else's artwork when it's not made for others to use is basically spitting in the face of their time and effort. "Oh, you took 6 hours to do this drawing? I'm gonna recolor it neon in 20 minutes and remix it as my own." Like seriously. Don't do that. It make the artist incredibly frustrated and angry. Let's say you wrote an essay for school. It took you a lot of time and effort that you will never get back, and you're proud of it. Then someone copies your essay, changes a few words, hands it into your teacher and gets a hundred from it. Wouldn't that just infuriate you that the thing that YOU worked on for hours, put your sweat and tears into was just taken, effortlessly changed and then handed in to get full credit? Yeah, that's how us artists feel when you recolor or even just blandly steal our work. It's not cool dude. What to do instead: Instead of taking other's work for granted, try to draw yourself! Start small and practice at it. Anyone is capable of drawing if they just put the time into it. Most artists have been practicing for years and years to make art of the quality that they do (which is another reason to not recolor or steal their hard work) If you really don't want to put the effort into it, use a base that was made to be FTU (free to use). Make sure to always check an artist's TOS (terms of service) before using a base and ALWAYS ALWAYS credit them. They still took time out of their lives to make that, and just because it's free for you to use it doesn't mean you can take it! This concludes my TED talk. Don't be art thieves kids.
