Thanks

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To people making me feel horrible for calling out on an art thief, thanks a lot. I feel really crap now.

I have just found out the person who was tracing art has a personal site, with traced art on it (no credit ANYWHERE to ANYONE).
To top it up, it has a "web store" section with pictures of his traced art and mugs for like $25.00 saying "coming soon".
Although he's not making money off it *currently* it proves how they think there's nothing wrong with tracing and copying art and making money from it, but hey, we shouldn't do anything to discourage them or teach them to draw for themselves.

Finally. The rock hard proof that no one can deny, if you think there's nothing wrong with this then you are deluded and I will not discuss this with you. If this makes me a horrible person then feel free to unwatch me and block me.



Fact is, eyeballing is just as bad as tracing. Eyeballing something is copying. You can't copy something, then change some bits of it and call it your own. That's plagiarism. You can't say you're using the original as a "reference". Using something as a reference means looking at a subject from multiple sources and angles to help you make your own poses more accurate, not to copy their poses line for line. I fully believe tracing helps you learn, but do it privately, don't go posting it online, or at least get permission first.

Sorry for going on about this again, but I'm dropping it now. I don't even care anymore, hell, let's let anyone steal art!
This is not a witch hunt journal, neither was the other one. My intention was not to send abuse to this person, but to try help them learn to be a better artist. They clearly have artistic ability! I don't believe they did this maliciously, I don't think I could have handled this in a nicer way, I have no regrets, heck I even apologized...
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AmberRealm's avatar
I agree with you.