I always appreciate being notified of these things!

I’m pretty positive I‘m aware of this person, especially since I’ve made mention of it elsewhere a few days ago due to recent event.

Folks - while I really don’t like to (if there’s not a better phrase for it) call out people, I need to warn of this person.

I’m not sure if others are aware of the name ‘Santana Feenstra’, but please be wary of this person. And indeed, she seems to take on a lot of different account names, especially on Instagram, but it appears occasionally Furaffinity as well.

She also apparently hasn’t been doing this recently. For the past several months or so, it seems she has a history of taking others’ artwork. Not only mine, but numerous other artists as well. She often takes others artworks and traces/colors over them to make ‘her’ characters. And I put quotes around ‘hers’ as I believe I’ve heard of one or two occassions where she has also tried to steal others’ characters, due to them having more favorable designs. Or some wording along those lines. (I’m very certain I saw a screenshot of her comment regarding this on characters. If I can manage to find it, I’ll be sure to link.)

But again, please be wary of this person, folks. It can be.. fairly simple to recognize what her account may be if you happen to catch her posting videos with her face.

This is not a common case of someone genuinely not knowing that what they’re doing is not right. Despite constantly saying that she will stop stealing/tracing, she often reposes the very same images that were asked to be removed. And specifically, she seems to go after reference sheets.

I recall several months back when a friend told me that Santana traced an older reference sheet of mine and colored with her character design. More so, she said that she draw it. After calmly asking her multiple times to take down said images, as well as asking that she not do this again, she seemed to no longer do this. But clearly, if recent event proves anything, it seems that she’s still at it.

And folks, I’d like to think I’m not asking for much here. I don’t want to ‘cause any trouble. I don’t want folks to go past any boundaries and attack her. At the very least, I just want to warn everyone, and be aware of her doing any of this ever again. 

I do not tolerate this sort of thing being done with my work. ESPECIALLY with these being commissioned pieces/personal characters.

And at this point, I refuse to humor her any further in efforts to have admins remove artwork that is not rightfully hers from her galleries, possibly to the point of suspension. If I happen to hear word of her using more of my refs/art for things such as recoloring though, I will make some sort of effort to ask her to remove it again.

(Again, thank you for informing me! Just wanting to let folks know!)