auuauauau getting inspired by a design but not wanting to make the design owner uncomfortable...
it's hard to really know what level of inspiration ppl are ok with. i'm of the camp that "as long as you don't 1:1 copy the design feel free to lift aspects of my art/characters if i creatively inspire you" but other people will get mad if you so much as breathe in their character's direction. there's even a whole subset of people, mostly on toyhouse, who are like "don't take inspiration from my designs period" (which goes against everything i believe in about art but i digress) so aaaa aa a a aa a
