birthday and peoples artist competition!

well, it's my birthday today and I'm using speech to text so would be better if you just read this out loud and understood the words as they sound because a lot of times my speech to text gets words totally wrong so wrong that they don't make any sense as if I was speaking in gibberish that said I hope you don't mind me using it. Today is my birthday the other day I entered an art competition. I saw it on Facebook or Instagram or somewhere and it was Johnny Depp's campaign for a production company or a marketing agency. I can't remember colossal entertainment, I think and it's also for it's a fundraiser for the art of Elysium, which has a gallery in LA that helps people come overcome, emotional problems, and other obstacles in their way of art making so it's for artists that are tortured. It's for tortured artists anyway I joined and I put in one of my favourite drawings one of the first ones that I drew that I was thinking that day I'm gonna make a nice drawing and then I started making the drawing and I kept finishing it until it was done and up to now it's one of my best pieces so I entered that one. The colours are not customized. I didn't custom colour it too much. I did a little bit, but not too much. I think I might've used a preset and then I custom coloured it from there so it's kind of like semi premade the colour palette anyway the line is what I'm talking about. I'm going to post some pictures here of the close-up image of this Mandela. I call it A-to-Z. There are also area rugs of this exact Mandela in my Cafe press store cafepress.com/shop/Mkicrattzzi and I realize anybody can just steal my photo and print their own carpet and Cafe press and leave me out of it essentially stealing my life force while I am sharing it for others to do the same. I understand that has been my entire life. I'm getting pretty sick of it. I'm already 47 but anyway I share still anyway here it is the Mandela that I do not want bastardized or stolen from me. I want all of my work credited to me I never wanted a third-party to come up with a fake knee that credits themselves for everything that I personally did. I don't want a third-party pretending to be my family so they get the credit for everything I did. I don't want anybody else receiving credit for any of the artwork that I drew or made because most if not all of my art has always been stolen. I wanna make sure that you know that that art is mine and I made it and it should not ever be sold by somebody else after they stole it from me that money goes to that thief and that really pisses me off this is why I'm a firm believer in copyright and I advocate for appropriate copyrights for works of art by attribution no derivatives non-commercial is that hard I don't know why that's so hard for people I get paranoid, but also it happens all the time.