Is it considered plagiarism if...

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  1. Fearless A good and beautiful child

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    Okay, so I was doing an answer for my ask blog, as pictured here;
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    So, I looked up references for Skaia and Prospit's clouds. I should note that the background pictured is what I had in my head when I started.

    While looking up references on Google image, I came across this image from DeviantArt;
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    I used it as inspiration for how I did the silhouettes and the shading on the figures. I used the clouds as references (I had already drawn Skaia in the bg when I'd found the image). In the final post, I did cite the DA picture as a reference.

    It does look kinda similar, though. My question is, would anyone be able to take that as plagiarism for looking so similar?
     
  2. Guardian Soul hella sad & hella rad

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    No. You aren't using the actual image and calling it your own so it isn't plagiarism.
     
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    I wanted to sue the creators of Inception because they took the concept of my 5th-grade creative story project.

    but it was actually a good movie, so i let it all slide just this once
     
  6. Fearless A good and beautiful child

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    I guess I just get paranoid when it comes to this sort of thing.
     
  7. Ars Nova Just a ghost.

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    Pretty much the only way to get drilled for plagiarism is if you go "THIS IS MINE. I MADE IT AND IT BELONGS TO ME" when such is not true. Otherwise artists steal from reference each other all the time, ho-hum :v And when I say 'artists' I don't mean just 'illustrators'