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Published: 2008-08-30 18:56:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 13235; Favourites: 694; Downloads: 73
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Even when I was twelve and still making fan characters... I made my own without tracing. I designed them from the ground up and I didn't need to trace over some poor animator's work.
Are you against tracing? Join the club!
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used 2 do the same thing but jus 4 FUN. I would NEVER post it up on a website or anything, and even if i did, i still would admit that its a colour-over
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All I can say to this is AMEN! I see to much of that crap on DA
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Art theft is art theft no matter how much you try to doll it up.
But due to Da's ploicy, they can get away with it.
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no they can't!
always when i report recolored things like this it gets deleted by it!
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People could at LEAST have SOME originality when it comes to creating characters.
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OH GOD!!
i hate it when people do this AND THEN pretend that their 'oc' is dating a canon character!!!
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or they pretend that a character in the anime has a brother/sister. -_- I agree with you
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uggghhh, the 'long lost borther/sister' thing is so annoying 9__9
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I agree with the stamp completely.
Just because you change the hair and eye color does not make it your original character.
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I was like ~LeafNinjaTsunade down there; I messed around with character screenshots on paint when I was younger but never posted them.
It's really fucking annoying when people do that to animated screenshots; not only because it's unoriginal but because the colors are ridiculous. Blue hair? Pink eyes? What the fuck?
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Lol, I used to draw an anime character from Naruto or w/e else in paint and mess around with the colours, changing the hair colour and the eye colour and whatever else.
But I wouldn't post them anywhere, it was all just out of random boredom.
And most of all, I wouldn't trace!
I agree completely with this.
Tracing is stupid.
It doesn't show personal talent whatsoever.
It takes no skill.
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see i was one of those poor kids who didn't use the computer for art.
i looked at my manga, took a pencil and just drew.
of course my how to draw manga books helped me figure out how to proportion, but i figured out most of drawing on my own with some critiques from my mom
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haha~~ tracing : D , the power of MS Paint, no layers, no big effort...
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I used to be guilty of this. Now, even if I'm just using someone's art for reference and I'm not even going to upload it to dA, I still feel dirty. XD
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i agree with this completely!
evey character trace ive seen looks bad -_-
the closest thing ive dont to any tracing is copying (not tracing) their poses or exressions or whatever
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Ugh, I don't like it when people trace and edit and claim it as their own.
I've seen many fights over things like this over dA, for example:
One person was like "This is my totally original character that I drew, please fave!" and when someone pointed out that they did trace and slightly alter the character, they started up a large arguement about how untalented the person who pointed it out is and usually after a few weeks the person who posted the trace finally added a bit of credit...
It's all really annoying.
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The only time I trace is when I make a cover for my school binder. Even then, at the top of my trace I have it labeled, "this is a trace. I WISH I was this good!" My friends get a kick out of it.
It seems you're anti-traced base as well. I make those, but I am learning to draw well right now, and I say that if the artist has found out I made a base of their artwork, just for them to tell me they don't want it as a base, and I'll delete it and keep it from being used again.
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i have to admit, i did trace and re-color before but now im against it (im such a hypocrite)
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Nah, I think you saw the light.
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I saw Sasuke and Sakura with red hair called "OC's". Once I made image with orochimaru with red hair saying "Am I Your OC now?", but DA removed it T_T
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Awwh! They removed your edit and not the person who had those "oc"s?
Anyway, that's really funny. XD
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People should draw what they imagine first... Then recoloring official images as their original looking characters is alright. But drawing is much better!
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Recolouring official images is never right. If they cant draw the character, and wont commission someone to draw it for them, then they shouldnt bother with it at all.
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i agree with your stamp :/
sometimes i would edit a character for fun, then delete it. If you look at my gallery my OC's are hand made with my own two hands and a tablet xD
awesome stamp!
how do you make them?
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Was Akiko an "original" character somone made? or did you do this for the stamp?
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I did it for the stamp... and the lulz
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You are SO right. Why Sakura? Most of all, why trace? I don't think quality is the main point of art, but originality count a big part of artwork.
Awesome stamp!!! Your stamp makes such a big point, and I would use it if i could.
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Have you ever thought that they trace,because they cannot draw?
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I do it,but I don't call it mine.
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Well that's good. If they claim it all as theirs, that's the wrong thing.
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Well yeah, if the rambble on saying, "OH I DREW THIS I DIDN'T TRACE" and it's so obvious that it was a color over.
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Oh,that. yeah,that irks me.
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people trace to get better at things. they still get attention even though its NOT their own work. which is pretty stupid due to TRACING. dA is for real artists and not for cheaters.
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i cant believe that editing is popular here. the rejects are supposed to be on photobucket, flickr, etc.
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Rant on the unoriginal people!!
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Hmmm....
I can't say I'm 100% against tracing.
But, y'know.
Whatever.
So long as you guys aren't attacking innocent kids, I'm good.
I respect your opinions, so I'll just be off.
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I admit I made one character that looks like Bumblebee from TFA, but he's Bumblebee's BROTHER so he's supposed to bear a resemblance to him and I did not trace him. I drew him up myself.
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yeah i hate when people make tracing characters -_-" but im more nervous when they use great devitations like those [link] and make something like this [link] [link]
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heck, if you go two pictures over from the first one, they have the unedited picture in their images too 
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>_>
The first example isn't even tracing, it's editing, which is worse in my book. owo;;
But I can't agree with the second one. It does look different. :/
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un yeah maybe but yeah editing is worse than tracing
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