Hai Hai

I totally agree with you there, I always start 
off with commissioning screen caps, before I even 
consider into dabbing into fanfic idead or 
picking at the artsits brain.  

Why?
well first off it's cheaper, you pay like $30 and 
get a fancel of your fave seen and at the same 
time see just how good they are at painting a 
fancel, then commission a few more and see if 
there work is the same and doesn't lower in 
quality.
If I'm convinced and am impressed through and 
thorough then I consider commisioning an original 
and/or fanmade piece.  Beacause at that paoint I 
know that the artist is good and I know their 
ethics, ie how friendly they are, turn around 
time and so on and so on.
Original art is more expensive, so why would I 
start off with a $50-$100 piece when I don't even 
know how the artists work is firsthand.

So yea I take the route of a screen cap first.

And hey it's notonly the artists who get flamed, 
the buyers do as well, I don't know how many 
production cel collectors I had flame me when I 
had my gallery up and accuse me of stealing their 
production cel. 
Amd I go "dude, I made a god damn screen cap, I 
didn't steal your stupid cel"  It is not that 
hard to pop in a dvd and make a screen cap.  And 
when you own a highly thought after cel, like 
that sakura, chances are that most likely their 
will be a fancel made off it.
Why? well because other people want it to, and 
since the production cel owner wont give it up 
all the rest of us can do as get a fancel, may 
not be just AS nice, but close enough.

It's gotten just as bad for the fancel collectors 
as it has for the fancel painters, I got flamed s 
badly at one point I ended up having to take my 
gallery down.  And that's ridiculous! 

I just don't see how people can't understand such 
a simple thing as a creen cap, it takes 5 seconds 
to make, it's not that hard, I've made a shit 
load when I wanted to find matching scenes to my 
production cels, or when I was commissioning 
screen cps.


Ari