If you are sensing the controversy,
then I hope you are rubbing your nipples in anticipation like I am right now.
I say tracing other people's artwork is "okay" but didn't state it was"great" in the title
I feel we as artists have let you down on a monumental scale in the way we have subconsciously made our personal skills gate-keepy and unattainable for you mere worthless mortals.
The art community (especially the cub community) suffers from a talent drain and it's distressing to see a minimal amount of new talent stepping up to the table and persisting at their developing craft. From my perspective, it's so hard to explain how I used to be the "new kid in town" and nipping at the heels of the OG's that founded this place, the very same owe and giddy girl submissiveness to the masters of their work dying to message them and worry I'd say something dumb.
I just don't feel I have my own heel-nipper, someone more talented in this field to not let me feel complacent and get the fire back in my step.
But back to the subject, I think tracing is okay, it helps motor-hand coordination, and it helps give you a good simple crash course in using a tablet, mouse, and traditional media. The not-okay part is claiming it is your own original Masterpiece. It helps with motivation because you're not doing guesswork and you will learn your simple shapes and line work.
I have an evil confession, a diabolical secret to share, I HAVE TRACED. When I was first starting out, I made this Pink husky animation, I call it my Frankenstein model, I would use a traced leg here, a traced torso, and arms from some other random artwork. So yes, I'm a big fat phony, but in reality, It gave me a HUGE stepping stone to learning an animation program I liked as well as giving me a stepping stone to experiment and improve. It's why I don't have that animation on this website and it's why I've never really been all that proud of it. (Plus when I was younger I was into all sorts of weird shit cus I was a horney little fucker)
But my deeper message here is, don't give up, keep scribbling stick men doodles with huge dicks and balls on them, Don't be afraid to get your work out there and show the world, start simple and be ready for criticism as well as embracing that negativity to use for your defiance as well as soaking up the positivity in the comments.
I can't stress this enough, please please don't go up to an artist and try to convince them that your traced work is a gift or an original peace, just mentally understand that this is just to help you improve as an artist.
To any artists reading this, WE DUN FUCKED UP BEING PRESCIOS ABOUT OUR ART BEING TRACED, now look where we are now, we sure in hell don't have a leg to stand on bashing AI art when for years we have been full-on Gollum possessive about our work and not even giving new aspiring artists a chance. We have got to bite the bullet that this AI trend is at least partially our fault, sure there will be a few who just shrug off the complexity and assume AI is the new silver bullet, but the harsh reality is that none of us have made the mental effort to offer any easy segway into the artist realm without making it seem like BEING AN ARTIST is just a chore. So I ask any other artists reading this, get off your fucking high horse and drop a comment on some developing artist work and stop being such a proud antisocial shit stain that his royal king or queen feels no need to engage with the lowly peasants, You have no idea what a comment means coming from an artist and how much inspiration it gives to newcomers, if It wasn't for those life-saving comments from the big dog's I probably would never be what I am today.
Cheers for reading.
note; please don't make this a big AI debate, I will delete comments that get too relative to that subject.
I'm already prepared for some of you to take my words out of context or at least put some deranged spin on it, so my block button is locked and loaded.
Cum at m3 bro.
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