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And that’s yes, maybe alot of young artists “copy” other art styles. But we all do it. I’ll pay anyone who can show me their art from when they were first starting out and have it not look like some anime’s art style, or their favorite cartoon. It’s how we learn. Over time the pictures you draw develop from looking like Invader Zim to your own unique look, and that’s how it’s always been.

For example, here’s a drawing by @spibbles, someone whose dealt with this alot.

and here is a drawing I made just now, my attempt to draw this same picture exactly, their style and all.

even when I am blatantly trying to recreate the exact same picture, you can tell they were done by two different artists. You can’t copy an art style exactly. Can you be influenced? Yes. Is that wrong? No.

And I promise you if this was ten years ago, my drawing would look like this, just like hundreds of yours would.

Cause everyone starts out using someone else’s art style.

Joe Ottomanelli reportedly gave Victor Sheppard the noose as a “gift,” the victim told the News.

“If you ever have any stress, just put it around your neck and pull it. I could even help you with it,” Sheppard claims Ottomanelli told him.

Ottomanelli did not deny giving Sheppard the noose, but he said the whole incident was a joke. He added that he wanted to apologize, noting that he works with many black people and wasn’t “raised that way.”

I don’t know about you, but that DOES NOT seem like something to joke about. According to the delivery man, Victor Sheppard, who’s been delivering to the butcher for eight months, this isn’t the first racist thing that Ottomanelli has said to him. 

“Mentally and emotionally, he’s really hurt me. I felt very endangered, just doing my job,” Sheppard tells the Daily News. “This is a man who’s 58-plus. He really thinks handing a noose to a black man is sending a playful message?”

And of course people have come to Ottomanelli’s defense, trying to make this racist action seem less horrible than it really is.

The owner of Bleeker Street Pizza, who said he has known Ottomanelli for 20 year, said the allegations against him were “bullsh–.” “He probably joked and someone took it the wrong way,” the pizza maker, Tony Salihaj, said. “I think it’s bulls–t.”