I never really understood how companies could blame a "rouge" designer ... but I've learned my lesson first hand.
Here's the story - I asked for a caricature to be made of a photo I provided.
Within 30 minutes the designer came back with the following image:
At first I thought "wow, nice" ... but, I was somewhat suspucious simply because of the turn around time. I asked if he had created this and if it was original artwork, his response was something along the line of "yep, this old dog has skills". Well, I dropped the image into google search ... low n behold, I found the following:
I pointed this out to him and he responded with some bullshit saying how he modified bla bla. Obviously he completely missed the point of original artwork. So, now he's somewhat butt hurt because I was just asking for him to be honest and I pointed out that he lied.
Now, he spends all morning hunched over his computer and comes back with the following and says "his is hand drawn. no stock whatsoever ... I hope you consider that 'real' artwork. LOL":
The problem is I feel like I've seen this image before + I'm worried since the first version was a plain lie. I tried dropping it into google search but of course it's not coming up. If I had to guess, he traced, outlined, resided, flipped, etc. but it's still some other image that isn't original.
Anyone care to help prove me right?
