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[ SECRET POST #4142 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4142 ⌋

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Practice is practice.

I recently saw an artist I follow freely admit to copying poses from porn as anatomy practice... mind, they do mostly draw porn, so you might not feel so open about it.

Hey, it's practice, and you'll start being able to do that *without* the tracing after awhile. Muscle memory - all good!

Hate to say but if you trace your brain won't learn. You're just going over the lines so you're not teaching your brain how the picture goes together. If you're just tracing and not letting yourself work out how that leg is attached you won't remember when it comes to trying it for yourself. Tracing is a quick way to do things. But in the end you have to understand what you're drawing to do it for yourself. It's probably why a lot of artist's look down on tracers (Greg Land anyone?) as art isn't an easy thing to get good at.

[citation needed]

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The stuff I post is squarely SFW and as I mentioned in the secret, people have told me I've improved, so clearly it's doing something. I mean, I do change some stuff to make the people involved my OTP, but still.

You only appear to have improved because you're tracing.

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I don't trace the stuff I actually post for other people to see.

Except - not everything thinks that, and googling it brings me a *lot* of links that say it does. Here's just one......

http://www.kathiegeorge.com/the-art-of-tracing/

Tracing isn't efficient as other methods, yeah, but you're able to learn a little from it, especially if you're combining it with other methods of study. I find it helpful for understanding out proportion, detail, and foreshortening.

This right here. Sure, if the ONLY thing you're doing is tracing you're not going to get much out of it, but as one tool of many it can be very useful.

I taught myself to draw with tracing, and when I started drawing on my own had no problems with it. Oddly enough after years and years of not tracing I tried tracing a drawing I wanted to make some changes on, and discovered I can't trace for shit now. How the fuck does that happen?

don't listen to this idiot lol

This. It's not going to be a popular opinion, but IA.

Yeah, I'd like to see some examples from artists who claim that tracing improved their art so much.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-05-08 04:12 (UTC) - Expand

YOUR MOTHER'S A TRACER!

...this is honestly a great idea, OP, I'm going to give it a try lmao

I really hope you're disclosing that fact if you're posting the traces

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Don't worry, "personal masturbation folder" means just that. They will never see the light of day.

I suspect porn is a far more common form of practice than most will admit. Anything that compels you to draw more is good, and well done porn actually requires a lot of awareness of anatomy, proportion, expressiveness, the way forms interact, etc. So it's a pretty good way to learn. Not saying it's perfect, or the be-all and end-all, but still, good.

Honestly, I assume anyone good at anatomy has studied lots of porn and has a secret (or not so secret) porn stash. Either that or they're a decided art student who has spent years in life drawing classes. But let's be real, the former's way more likely in fandom.

You're not the only one who does this. I think there's at least one in every fandom.

I have a similar issue, except it's 2D animation, although the tut maker hgas removed most of the animations that were .... explicit in nature. I guess they're trying to go professional lol.

I love this secret! XD

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