I’m an older sports med guy who was forced into retirement due to burnout. Now I battle depression. To help I began to draw and paint again. What I’m drawn to are common urban scenes in small Japanese towns, so I follow a lot of photographers from Japan (and Korea).
Sometimes I’ll take one of their photos as inspiration and paint it. When I post I always tag the photographer and give credit as well as including the original photo. I do this as a hobby and don’t sell (or plan to sell) and of my (objectively poor) art.
Recently someone told me even if I tag the photographer and include the pic – one should still obtain permission before. Otherwise you can be ‘inspired’ by the photo, but you need to alter it in some way. Then it’s okay to post.
I like to try and recreate the photo, so after that long boring preamble my question to the photography artists of Japanese Instagram is this: if an artist/hobbyist tagged you and you saw they had painted one of your photos; would this be okay? Should they ask first? (I always feel creepy asking).
Thanks anyone who takes the time.
by Beautiful-Rent-9664