Drago Art, Dawn Donald

[thowra-egypt.livejournal.com]

WHO: "DragoArt" on DeviantART, authoress of Drago Art dot com Dawn Donald

WHERE: DeviantART.com and DragoArt.com

WHAT: Dawn Donald, famous authoress of the tutorial website DragoArt.com, has been revealed to be a tracer. I'm not sure if she has been posted here yet, but i did an hour-long sweep of the community before posting and i didn't see anything.

WHEN: The majority of her tracings of her tutorials happened before 2010

PROOF: Here is a website review: http://www.helium.com/items/2269038-website-review-dragoartcom

A journal deleted by the author about her tracings and showing overlays: http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/8526/neondragonondeviantart0.png

A note, written by a "Dren Harrison" who is, in fact, Dawn under an alias as discovered by outside sources: http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/3186/snarkyreply.jpg

Dawn being immature in the face of a few members of deviantART accusing her of tracing: http://comments.deviantart.com/1/271510684/2323496833

Dawn attacking the artist who posted the journal: http://comments.deviantart.com/1/274827387/2332014820

Larger versions of the overlays: http://wtfkashblog.tumblr.com/post/14799072433/xibalbadance-neondragonart-dragoart-ive

EXPLAIN:  one of my friends one day posted me a link to their argument against her http://comments.deviantart.com/1/271510684/2323496833 Pointing out that this Dawn Donald, DragoArt @ dA, traces. Later that day she noted NeonDragon about their similar names, which led to the journal posted above. Dawn threatened NeonDragon with a lawsuit, under the reasoning that she was "slandering her name and character", when in fact that Dawn had copied Neon's tutorial style in the first place.
Earlier today, i was visiting the site of PortConMaine to check  the dates for a family member when i saw that she was going to be a guest there. I immediately emailed the staff and i am awaiting their reply. She also does commissions, and i suggest deffo NOT commissioning her, although not all her recent work has been traced, just the majority. She is immature and annoying to communicate with.

Comments

[lackoflollies.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. a lot of the journal links are showing up as unavailable to me, but I can still see the comments.

[oceandezignz.livejournal.com]

DA is like Facebook in that regard I believe. You can delete it, but some of the content will never really go away as long as you have the hard link to it.

[ducttapeninja.livejournal.com]

I actually can't help giggling at the threat she made to NeonDragon about suing her for "Deformation of Character." Somebody really knows what they're talking about there!

[lackoflollies.livejournal.com]

deformation

I just noticed this.

[spiffystuff.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeep, that caught my attention right off.

Nothing says "intelligent and innocent" like threatening a lawlsuit!

[thowra-egypt.livejournal.com]

A lawsuit that would be probably waved off by any sane lawyer.

[spiffystuff.livejournal.com]

I doubt they have the money to fund a frivolous suit.
And I can only hope to see some suits for "deforestation of character" at this rate XD

[sunhawk.livejournal.com]

I also enjoyed the remark about taking "evasive action" lol

[genkigami.livejournal.com]

I always suspected DragoArt traced for her tutorials. There's no way anyone can replicate that many different distinct styles perfectly without some tomfoolery going on.

[frazzled-niya.livejournal.com]

I got no words...literally none =C

I need a thumbs down icon

[synviver.livejournal.com]

OT - is that Dr. McKay I see in that icon?

[frazzled-niya.livejournal.com]

indeed it is 8D <3

[synviver.livejournal.com]

*fangirl glee*

[otherscape.livejournal.com]

I second the glee!

[copper-curls.livejournal.com]

Wow... that seems pretty clear-cut to me. The three that seem most obvious to me are the Joker, Tinkerbell and the soldiers. I don't see how DragoArt can possibly claim those aren't traces.

[kuwaizair.livejournal.com]

i was wondering about that site. I do not recall how I found it.

[kazufox.livejournal.com]

Yeesh, and people call me a rip-off...even if she did/didn't trace the WORST thing you can possibly do is explode trying to defend yourself. If you didn't, then say that you didn't and explain your side in a calm manner. If she did, which it looks like it, then she needs to come clean else she'll possibly end up with a rep like Irate Gamer in the art field.

[marus-puppy.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's worth mentioning, but she can also be found on youtube under the same name. I didn't watch any of her tutorial videos, so I don't know whether they're the legitimate step-by-step kind or the I-traced-the-final-product-then-threw-this-together kind.