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If I had a nickel for every time I heard one of these excuses...I would be rich enough to buy deviantART and hire new admins.
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One. Tracing isn't illegal. As long as you CREDIT who you traced, everything's fine. Two. Tracing actually does help with coordination with your hand. I trace ALL. THE. TIME, AND LASTLY. You need to stop acting like tracers are TERRIBLE. I know a few good tracers out there.
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Not all artist want to be traced credit or not
If you wanna trace someone's art ask their permission first
(And also don't repost other people's art without their permission eitherΒ Baseeeeeeee )
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So true!
I hate it when it happens to MY artwork..
Also, take a look here of what the user did to one of my art pieces:
archive.fo/C56gU
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Traciung maybe a good way to learn to draw by teaching your hands to memorize the lines,
however it can also be considered stealing when you post it up without credit or permission
from the original artist. THAT IS NOT OKAY and no amount of excuses will change that.
Doing it on the side to practice and develop is one thing but posting up the work as your
own is another.
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I now just draw on a drawing app on my phone but never traced EVER
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I completely agree with this stamp !
Tracing is theft and is NOT a good way to learn how to draw. When I was like 14 or something I used to trace lots of pictures from books or mangas to help me larning the basics of art and when I tried to draw on my own again, I hadn't improved one single bit. It was still my shitty 12 years old art style and skill.
If any new artists see this stamp and read this pointless comment, I'd like to share a different way of learning and improving. Try to watch some speedpaints of your favourite artist and try to find some technique that you can try in your own style. If it doesn't work very well once you know how to use it then try something else until you find your own perfect way of drawing. Analyse some works of your favourites artists. Ask yourself the question of "how did they manage to convey such emotion into the drawing ?", "how did they shade ? Etc.... and try it yourself WITH YOUR OWN ARTSTYLE !
I'm not sure this will work for everyone but trust me it's worth a shot. Using this way of learning, I've improved more in one year than in my entire lifetime.
Even if your first drawing is bad, it'll still be better than a traced picture. Nothing justifies tracing. Nothing besides laziness.
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You wouldn't steal a car you wouldn't steal a womens purse TRACING IS STEALING!!!!!!
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Don't be against tracing... It's how the Mona Lisa, and most of Andy Warhol's art was done.
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no it is not. andy worhol manipulated photos and the mona lisa was a hand-drawn painting of a woman that was heavily revised over several years
do you actually know what tracing is? it is when an image or photo is traced over from a source image or photo. neither of those examples are tracing
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Actually, Andy Warhol took a photo of a soup can, put it through a projector, projected it onto the canvas and then traced over the image. I'm honestly not sure of how Da Vinci is, but the projector thing is one theory.Β
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are you referring to his silkscreening? that was a replication of the already existing can series and was done AFTER he had gotten approval from campbells
davinci painted. he was a painter. he wrote on the camera as it related to the eye in the 1400s but did not use it to create any images. he hand drew all of his works
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No, I'm referring to his soup cans, the ones where he took a photo and traced them.
ca.phaidon.com/agenda/art/artiβ¦
And Leonardo Da Vinci, according to a relatively new theory, traced the projected face of a woman onto the canvas for the Mona Lisa. It's still hand drawn, but so is the majority of traced art.
thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/β¦
www.dogsonacid.com/threads/didβ¦
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that article is quite bastardized >x>;;;; the timing is off, the way that he created the work is incorrect and the only traced photos he did of the tomato cans came long after the works shown in that image. those were created by silkscreens and stencils, here is the image he copied for that installment; upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
your theory is unfounded and lacks any actual evidence. claiming that a large cultural shift in perceived beauty and socially desired works can be chalked down to several hundreds of thousands of people getting hold of a device that would be very costly and difficult to make and taking up tracing en mass but not having any written documentation of the use of this device or having physical evidence of the device in whole or part in said works or locations is ridiculous, it also discounts on face the world trends of the time both before, during and after the art renaissance as well as centuries of clear physical evidence showing the movement away from strongly stylized art to strongly realistic art
this is nonsensical and you have done nothing other than prove that you know nothing about the history of art or math or cameras
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If they were traced from that pencil drawing, what's the difference? Even if he did the pencil drawing, he still then traced the next few.
And the theory isn't unfounded, it's possible, many artists have done it, and it was common at the time. Who's to say Da Vinci didn't do it? It doesn't discount his work, if anything it makes him even more credible as an innovator, with the patience to set all of that shit up and meticulously paint the things he projected.
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Tracing is NOT a useful way to develop as an artist!
It takes practically NO skill to trace lines, and the 'skill' of tracing lines does not translate to drawing on your own. It is okay, however to trace photos in order to simplify the shapes/outline and reference off that however.
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Tracing is actually a very good way to help a beginning artist develop their down style. It's how I started way back in middle school and it's actually suggested in a variety of artistic guide books (of the comics and cartoon breed) to trace until you are able to draw comfortably on your own.
Of course, anyone who traces and then uploads to their gallery should link to the original artwork and give full credit to the original artist. And if the artist of the original work tells them to take it down? Well then they should respect the original artist and do so. *shrug*
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Tracing's also used in some of the most amazing art ever made.
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I know someone who traces.Β
the worst part is that someone thinks she actually drew it
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Im confused now. No one's reportee my art, but its still considered stealing...
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if you dont have permission to use the image from the image creator it is inappropriate and ILLEGAL to trace the image. i am pretty damn sure they are talking about stealing images and tracing them not getting a hold of legal stock and using them to make your own work(if they include legally acceptable tracing too then it's not really theft unless you fail to credit)
i will say this though, those 'professionals' are shit-mongers and just because they get away with stealing does not make it right or acceptable
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Warhol had no license from Campbells...
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what he did was classified as appropriation NOT tracing. he modified a photograph in a manner that changed the context of the mage and removed it from it's original intention. he did not replicate it with the intent of using as-is
this is like kasey bowman who simply traced an image and claimed it was her own. she was publicly disgraced, banned from scholastic programs and lost all her awards and accolades
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it's still stealing, please dont let this guy convince you theft is ok
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If you do it for your own practice and don't post it anywhere, how exactly is that going to get you in trouble? Explain that, please.
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i am not talking about trouble, i am talking about stealing. it is still stealing. you suffering negative repercussions is all on you but the actual act does not change regardless of whether or not you are caught
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Yes it's fine 
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If only this person would see this:
deadlyart4all.deviantart.com/
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I say it's fine unless the user posts it. If you're using it to develop style, then keep it to yourself.
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I saw a drawing that traced part of my fan art..my drawing wasn't the best but I worked hard on it. Not that I mad but you know..
And yes those are bad excuses
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im sorry for using references and sometimes tracing.
but i can draw without them too. im just really bad at poses and bases.
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Noooo references are good! Referencing photos is the best way to improve at anatomy! Multiple references are even better! Use refereneces!
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I know a lot of great artists that learned everything they knew from tracing :v....
And now they draw their own art and just under 2 years since I've been watching them, their own art improved a lot faster than most people I see.Β
But--I'm referring to specific fandom for an anime show, and there's only a small handful of people I am referring to, the rest of them just trace for fun, to get popular, blah, blah, blah.....
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What's the consensus on tracing photographs?
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I used to trace, but then I tried drawing for real. I've improved a bit of dA, but haven't posted any new work recently. My camerea is a jerk.
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If you want to work on your OC's so much you should do your own work end of story, heck i am a pretty crappy drawer but I am proud of it cause I do my own work and didn't have to hide behind tracing.
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I support tracing if the person is *genuinely* using it to figure out how stuff like anatomy works. I've done it before, when I was much younger and just starting to seriously draw. I never claimed it as my own- I rarely even showed anyone- and to this day I feel that tracing a complex skeleton or a dynamic pose truly helped me along.
I also have no problem with people who trace just because, and make sure they say they're not the one who really drew it.
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Tracing art and keeping it to yourself is fine. I think all artists, including myself, are guilty of tracing. But when everyones entire gallery consists of bases and traced art, it's just so annoying, no matter what excuse you have.
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That's why I prefer to upload art I requested/commissioned from others. I never was good at drawing
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I support tracing only if the tracer is tracing a picture taken by the tracer. Many real artists actually trace things.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=4mcmAMc2β¦
please look at these comments omgfg
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When I was like, 8 or 9 i'd trace from computer screen to paper, never uploaded it, but, i gave em' credit on the back of the paper even though nobody would see it.Β
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