Question for CC Makers

[strangetomato]

For those of you who've made wall hanging recolours from an artist or designers work (either in a simlish version or as-is), do you generally ask permission to use their artwork? Or do most people use the images without contacting the original creator of the image? I have a little something I'd like to make based on someone else's work, so I'd like to know what others do in this situation. I feel like asking would be best, but then I'm sort of afraid they'll just say no.

Comments

[w-sims.livejournal.com]

I've never asked, thinking about it, but I've always put links to where the original is as a kind of shout out to the original creator. I would never just post nothing about who made/where you can find the original!

[kayleigh83.livejournal.com]

This is what I do as well. Any recolours I've done have only been posted on my LJ, and judging by the stats on my MediaFire it isn't like millions of people are downloading it anyways. I post links to the original artist for credit but since I'm not profiting in any way I don't bother asking.