What do you do when you feel like packing it in?

I get frustrated occasionally, when I'm tapped out in terms of time/money/body/spirit/mind, and can't work any harder than I already am. Bones and I are pulling 14-18 hour days right now to prep for fan-expo, and I think its impacting my state of mind.

I feel so...frustrated when I see artists using people's posted images to recreate something as close to the original as they can, then hanging out a shingle and declaring themselves open for business. We've seen people demand other artists hand over their methods, complete with a materials list, their suppliers and pricing. We've had people leave us snarky comments about our prices (despite the fact we strive for a level of quality and durability that was as high as we could possibly make it - we literally guarantee our resin horrors). We've had people tell us they were going to make our designs better and cheaper. People compare our monsters to things that are made of hot-glued together rabbit fur.

And I just cringe when I see artists applauded for emulating another artist's extremely distinctive style of sculpting and painting. I've found artists who've done work of someone else's character without even asking. People who've glued things to the surface of someone else's design, and claimed that made it theirs. Artists claiming copyright on crazy things like real living animals, rainbow as a colour scheme, and anything with wings. Seriously?

Just...frustrated I guess. Hopefully this will pass quickly.
~W