i think there’s just a misunderstanding so i made a tutorial on how to properly reference something and not being scared about getting in trouble
i hope this helps !
If you think the below image is wrong, you’re basing your opinion of art from the concept “true artists NEVER use tools to make good art, it all comes RIGHT from our brains PERFECTLY.”
Jesus christ
I use reference. Everyone uses reference. You wanna cook something you’ve never cooked before? You use a recipe. You wanna look like that cute girl in the magazine you picked up impulsively at the grocery store? You get an outfit like hers. You wanna draw a human hand which is five cylindrical shapes with joints and constantly shifting lightsources? You find pictures of other hands doing that thing.
If you want to trace that hand doing the thing? WHO THE FUCK CARES
Professional artists trace ALL the time. And get paid for it. Hell, if it’s a difficult piece of anatomy or a client who wants PERFECTION instead of interpretation I trace. And guess what, when I trace it, I learn how to do it better.
NO ONE WHO MATTERS CARES IF YOU TRACE. All that matters is in the art you’re making is that you aren’t ripping off another artist and diminishing another person.
ANYONE WHO HAS ANY EXPERIENCE ARTISTICALLY KNOWS WHEN ANOTHER ARTIST IS USING TRACING TECHNIQUES. And that’s FINE. We don’t CARE.Just don’t take our purple lion king OC and trace it and turn it into your pink polka-dot OC, because that’s fucking annoying.
why cant my joke post stay as a joke
I found your post because I saw HUGE post of someone who had taken EVERY image this poor dragonage artist has ever created, found the references, and attempted to SHAME them from ever making art ever again. And I gotta say it really pissed me off, so I went to the original poster’s fake account (Which I refuse to post + give them further attention) and saw your post, that THEY had posted the above to use as HARD PROOF tracing is WRONG.
So, sorry if I went off a little on your joke, but I’ve just gotten ten anon messages thanking me for it, and telling me they feel ashamed.
Anyone who tries to shame you for doing anything that hurts no one else, is a troll, a child, a manipulator seeking to make themSELF feel better.
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