If an artist made an art for a character that s/he was contracted for, it's not automatically 'official' art unless there's the (c) sign that represents that art was made for the job. Else for that it's just art.
Looks oddly familiar. Probably the poster included in the upcoming Musume Type mentioned in DevTweet, since I recognize her from their newest user avatar (which is usually a teaser image of sorts).
If an artist made an art for a character that s/he was contracted for, it's not automatically 'official' art unless there's the (c) sign that represents that art was made for the job. Else for that it's just art.
Kadokawa's artist drew Kadokawa's character in a magazine published by Kadokawa. How is this not official just because there's no copyright sign?
Kadokawa's artist drew Kadokawa's character in a magazine published by Kadokawa. How is this not official just because there's no copyright sign?
Because companies often like to show "Fan-art" of their own artists drawing said characters in their own time.
Akira Toriyama for example has quite a few "Fan art" of Dragonball characters that were show cased. They are considered fan art cause while he may be the creator, they were drawn for fun when he was at home and not at the office officially drawing for the manga.
Bob and Ayaki also draw "Fan art" of ship girls as well. Although Ayaki actually got in trouble by KC cause KC was worried that his pixiv drawings would be seen as "Canon" so he stopped doing that.
