Comissions for dcc_1961!!! Pics!!!

[Purplecat]

Cool. Thank you! I know they’re discouraged, but I’m hoping that only repainting one’s that are in need of repair offends less….

[Starbreeze]

At least not until Ski can talk Melody into a whole family of pink dragons. 😆 😆 😉

[gryphondreamer]

if it happens here, at least windstone the company will know what is going on and be able to deal with it quicker. this thread perfectly illustrates this.

so, take a deep breath and learn from this experience. 😀

[John]

purplecat wrote:

But every piece I’ve done has dorsal shading and dark shading on the legs, wings, crest, and tail. It’s a mimicking of nature, almost all animals will have a lighter underbelly and under-areas….The pink is shaded the same….By making this call you put me entirely out of painting any sort of dragon or fantasy creature….mostly due to my skill level…If I did really bad quality repaints it wouldn’t be an issue. Sorry to respond in this manner but this is my only income as I’m an at home mom. This manner of shading is really the only way to paint this type of creature and it be a believable color scheme.

We just don’t want them to look like a Windstone piece to the degree that they could be considered to be substantially similar. We don’t have any rights to prior art or the hand of nature. Not quite, but, in the case of nature I’m not really sure where one would try to draw the ultimate line. I think it would be, as I explained in previous threads, when our “trade dress” hinges on it and imitators are creating confusion as to what is a real Windstone and what isn’t. Then again, Lizards are lizards and have particular and similar markings but if there is no prior art of dragons painted in “natural” coloration or markings, then what? Dragons don’t exist in nature.

There, how is that for another obscure and subjective answer? The whole issue is, of course, more of a subjective area than any of us wishes it to be. That said, it is always amazing to me how many times people recognize non Windstone pieces as knockoffs when I don’t see it at all (we never act on the truly marginal ones but they are sent to me all the time).

[Purplecat]

The only trouble with obscure answers is they’re easy to misunderstand :D. I’ll do my best to make my colors and patterns as different from windstone pieces as possible in the future, along with labeling everything so that helps some. As I said earlier, I only plan on doing repaints on dragons which need repair work and have had accidents. Thanks and sorry…… 😀 Just checking….the pink dragons are ok, right?

[Anonymous]

Kujacker wrote:

… I want cake now.

I was just handed a piece of strawberry icing cake. There’s a birthday party here at the cafe.

[Kujacker]

Snapdragon wrote:

Kujacker wrote:

… I want cake now.

I was just handed a piece of strawberry icing cake. There’s a birthday party here at the cafe.

Not fair D: I haven’t had a piece a cake since early January.
😆

[Starbreeze]

Kujacker wrote:

Snapdragon wrote:

Kujacker wrote:

… I want cake now.

I was just handed a piece of strawberry icing cake. There’s a birthday party here at the cafe.

Not fair D: I haven’t had a piece a cake since early January.
😆

😯

[Ettevy]

8) Difficult and undefinable copyright infringement issues aside 8) (need a MiB Emoticon), I just have to say Wow! 😯 droolz. I don’t normally care the spectrals but this one I’d want! Beautiful work!

[Author]

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