I don't think you were paying any attention.
compare,
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1b.
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2a.
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and you are telling me he has artistic abilities? Although, he obviously didn't _rip_ it, but both "rips" have the same basic shapes, and in that one case, same colour scheme. Obviously, they are really bad rips and the "ideas" were completely molested from the original ones.
This shows his lack of creativity, also. It's great he loves his artwork so much, but you shouldn't go out there and "steal" someones concept and completely rape it.
It isn't "art" when you consider there isn't anything expressed here. This is called "trendwhorism", kind of how anime, vector, and 3d abstract is. There is NOTHING being expressed, making you not only not an artist, but a dirty skanky whore at that.
Have you ever noticed how everyone who is involved in "vector art" draws a girl for EVERY single fucking thing they do? Or how you click this, and you click that, and you get this shape, and VOLA! ART! Sorry, folks, this isn't how art really is. Randomly clicking buttons in a warezed copy of 3dmax or PS does not make you an artist, nor does adding a bunch of lines and typography to it.
I suppose you can relate, because you draw anime. You sit there and follow tutorials on how to do everything. Sure, you have to actually use a *pencil*, but what the fuck is the difference? You aren't expressing yourself and it does not constitute as art.
Oh yeah, the linux thing. At least I don't whore myself out to multi-billion dollar monopolies which make shitty software and charge it for hundreds of dollars. To make assumptions that I'm some elitist bigot just on the basis that I use the linux operating system is also quite lame. There are plenty of linux users that go against your status quo of a linux zealot.
Now, please move a long and go back to masturbating to
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