[quote=@Valor]
Though really, Ethan does have a point.

If an artist truly didn't want people to EVER take their pictures, simply not posting them would suffice. They could privately message people them, thus avoiding putting them in their profile. Set everything to private so that only people given specific links could view it, or Email the person the artwork. By posting them, every artist has to silently accept that someone, somewhere, will download it.

That's simply how the internet is. It's not a nice thing to think, but we would be in a utopia if it were not.
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but, as an artist, if I do something I'm proud of, you're damn right I'm going to post it somewhere. Why? I'm proud of it. I don't want to just PM it to a few people, I want people to see it, give criticism, whatever. I'm not asking for world peace, I'm asking for a bit of courtesy and for people to realize that it's shitty to steal peoples art.