/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I'm sure you were expecting this to be brought up eventually so I'll just be the guy to do it first. I'm pretty disappointed that the industry has you tracing stuff from time to time my man-but not why you might think. I don't think there's anything morally wrong with tracing nor do I think it's a huge knock against you overall as an artist; your rendering is some of the best around. However when I saw that video where you were walking through your process creating the piece in this picture, you had laid in a perfectly competent head and face on your own, but from your words it sounded like you were almost compelled to trace over it because you'd felt your own work wasn't good enough-when your results really weren't bad at all from what I remember.

I feel like when you do trace it's because working in the industry has made you doubt your own abilities to a degree and I personally feel it's unwarranted.