[ SECRET POST #4142 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4142 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 32 secrets from Secret Submission Post #593.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[tabaqui]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

[citation needed]

[(Anonymous)]

OP
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.

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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

[tabaqui]

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/

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[tasogare_n_hime]

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?

[(Anonymous)]

don't listen to this idiot lol

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

Of course! Because they should drop everything to prove themselves to an anonymous jackass on the internet.
Or they could go on with their day and ignore your bullshit, that's an option too.

[(Anonymous)]

YOUR MOTHER'S A TRACER!