Ryuka and Wolverie Collab

My Wolverie drawn by and their Ryuka drawn by me. And my fancy coloring.
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My apologies to this artist, I traced the wolf they drew and made it into their character.  Back in 2008, I was not the person I am now.  It's painfully obvious I traced, and since this piece will always be on the internet, even if I remove it; I thought I'd admit my mistake and take the opportunity to let everyone know, I acknowledge how wrong this was and that I've changed.  I don't know if I'll ever find this artist again, but know that I'm sorry.  Maybe you were young too, just thought: "well, maybe they meant they coloured my art, by saying collab".  No, I took your picture of Wolverie and traced it so that I could design a striking image, instead of drawing your character myself.  I did colour, but that's not the part I'm sorry about.  I didn't think I was good enough.  I struggled a lot with self confidence even though I had a lot of support.  I was going through an abusive friendship; which is not an excuse, but may help anyone reading this understand.  This isn't who I am now; so I'm here, admitting my faults.  Since this, I did trades and have developed my art style.  It's shameful, coming back to this account and seeing this.  Not everyone has such a prominent reminder of how horrible they acted as a child.  Maybe you let someone get bullied or bullied someone in class, but you don't remember that, because you don't talk to those people anymore.  You've distanced yourself.  But, for me as a digital artist, I know this will come up in the future.  People can search "TabiiKat" and find this profile through extensive searching.  This falls back on me.  And it's caused me anxiety.  I don't want to be one of those people that rip someone off and can't admit it.  I'm not proud of it, but I won't deny it.  My art now has its own identity, separate from this, separate from the old me.  So no, my success or failure is not determined by this piece.  But that doesn't make pretending it doesn't exist right.  I felt bad doing it at the time, but I still uploaded it, because I thought it looked great, but I don't think it was worth it.

~TabiiKat 2018
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"Disgusting is the only word I have for it...."

~Garrosh Hellscream (c) Blizzard