Fail-to-Pale

I'm getting absolutely sick and tired of this base-making bullshit. I was browsing the front page a few days ago, and one of the twenty most popular images in the last twenty-four hours was a base created by some jerk ripping off an artist from Pixiv. The response I got? Not that big a deal? Imagine this. You're an artist; a real artist, and not some hack who traces with Microsoft Paint. You've spent days perfecting a sketch, followed by weeks crafting precise lineart, and painstakingly coloring your masterpiece. You're so happy and so proud, until someone comes along and spends all of six minutes tracing your magnum opus without your consen