[ SECRET POST #3267 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3267 ⌋

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Comments

[mudousetsuna]

What.

This is frowned on now?

Jeezus. When I was 10, I traced my comics. Yeah, that's how I learned. You don't pass that off as something original.

But now? I can draw in the style without even LOOKING at a reference. And you know what? I worked hard to be able to do that, and it's something I'm proud of, and it's how I express my love of the original content. I don't give a shit if it isn't to someone's taste, I like it and that's how I want to draw, and that's how I'm going to draw and people who don't like it can go elsewhere for their fanart.

Now, selling fanart, that's a whole different can of worms that has been debated for a long time, and it's not even something I'm going to argue. But one is not the other. If you're against selling fanart and taking monetary value from the original artist, it won't matter what style that person is using -- people are either paying for it or not. How good it looks is entirely subjective to the audience paying for it.

Personally, if I bought fanart, I'd lean far more toward both styles I like, and ones that come close to if not outright mimic the origin, because guess what?? That's exactly what I liked about it to begin with!

[(Anonymous)]

I learned how to draw the way I do today by tracing for practice. I got the most out of drawing books by scanning in the pages and using digital tracing to practice. I had someone tell me it was cheating, but I was using an art instruction book to learn how to draw in the style they were instructing.

But yeah. I practiced tracing for hours,because learning to draw was a hands on thing for me.

Now? I can look at something and draw a pretty good imitation of it. Just because people use tracing dishonestly doesn't mean that all tracing is dishonest and wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Plus, besides practice for drawing, tracing is its own skill set that needs to be developed too. You have to learn how to reproduce lineweight, how to ink your drawings, how to trace fluidly and without a shaky hand--all things that contribute to being an artist:

[(Anonymous)]

This is also true! It's something I didn't even properly focus on until recently, when I realized there was something lacking in my art. Now I'm trying to replicate the way different artists use thinner lines within the folds of fabric and hair, for example... and then thicker lines for emphasis on outlines, etc.