[PSA:BEWARE] WarriorMappy

Posted 3 years, 10 months ago (Edited 3 years, 8 months ago) by ApricotJam



I found this person on twitter who has recently been found to be tracing from a single artist named Ry_o_ta on instagram/twitter.

original artist

Tracer

More info and overlays of traced work

This person has taken a ton of commissions so I thought I'd make this thread for a warning, so that no one else gets scammed after finding out the commissioned pieces were traced!

Left is the original by Ry_o_ta and right is the traced art.
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When confronted the tracer denied it. Saying they just "referenced" the art.

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Even though the art is very obviously traced
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Please beware of this artist. They have scammed a lot of people with commissions, who are just now finding out the pieces had been traced.

Update 7/1/2020

WarriorMappy has been caught frankensteining and tracing again in their most recent art still tracing Ryota: 


New thread calling Warrior out for tracing in her newer artEbzSdinWAAEtVkF?format=jpg&name=mediumEbzq9m6WoAAi11-?format=jpg&name=900x900


SoraDeathEater

She admitted her fault and from what it seems she has apologized as well :o Her pinned tweet and mentions that she didnt trace any of her commissions, however the images she did trace were for Art raffles and some challenge thing :o so it would be a good idea to keep this PSA up in case some other things are traced... 

(Edit: oops didnt read the last part! I feel so bad for those who got traced commissions :( Hopefully theyre able to get some type of compensation :c )

ApricotJam

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like anyone has brought this to the attention of Ryota. If you could let them know that'd be amazing!! As for the commissions, they claimed they hadn't traced any commissions, but sadly people who had commissioned her are finding out that they were indeed traced. :( It's great she apologized for it, but she still isn't being honest about what was traced.

commission that was traced

She was paid in game currency that is bought with real money

ApricotJam

Darn, thank you for reaching out to them! I hope they reply soon. It seems like WarriorMappy is still tracing, and claiming it as their own. I'll update the psa with more info once I gather more.