/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.4988819]

How many of you trace? Please say the truth, I want to know how common it really is and tracing is the only way I can have fun but I started feeling guilty after I saw someone being shunned for tracing

[Anonymous No.4988860]

>>4988819
I traced only background once + a couple of portraits when I needed to finish them the same day.

[Anonymous No.4988865]

I trace exclusively, tracing is good and will make you a good and versatile artist

[Anonymous No.4988870]

>>4988819
Tracing is fine so long as you don't try to pass off traces as your own art. Tracing can be a great tool for learning as well

[Anonymous No.4988872]

>>4988819
i never

[Anonymous No.4988884]

>>4988819
Tracing is wrong if you claim the finished work as your own and profit off it. And even if you don't, tracing still impedes your progress. Anyone encouraging you to trace are crabs, for example >>4988865. If you have 2 brain cells you can distinguish right from wrong, stop fooling yourself.

[Anonymous No.4988894]

Tracing is fine as long as no one catches you

[Anonymous No.4988901]

>>4988819
It's 'tell the truth', dumb ESL.

[Anonymous No.4988915]

>>4988901
then tell me

[Anonymous No.4988956]

>>4988884
I thought it was pretty obvious that my post was sarcasm just from the word 'versatile', but it's clear op doesn't have as many braincells as you'd suggest

[Anonymous No.4988983]

>>4988915
I'll tell you to fuck off

[Anonymous No.4989028]

I traced once. It looked hideous. I learned the meaning of actually understanding the underlying form from that.

[Anonymous No.4989070]

Tracing is useful for breaking down a complex pose or scene into basic forms so you can understand them.
Anything beyond that is worthless.

[Anonymous No.4989077]

I pay chinese children to trace for me.

[Anonymous No.4989176]

Tracing is a tool.
Photobash is a tool.
Artists use it on daily basis.
Sucks to be losers who limits themselves. I do whatever i want to create. Hell i can even create art with the remains of your broken bones.

If you limit yourself in art, you deserve to die in regret. Because you let some arbitary meme/pride get in the way of creating.

[Anonymous No.4989178]

>>4989176
>creating
>tracing what someone else created

you're limiting yourself more by tracing than you claim people limit themselves by not tracing

you are terminally retarded

[Anonymous No.4989185]

>>4988819
I used to be an inbetweener.
It's literally my job to trace anime frames lol

https://youtu.be/E0KF4M0MPEs

[Anonymous No.4989200]

>>4989178
I trace to steal what i want from other artist. Why invent the wheel when they are all ready made for you. I will make a video to educate you little uneducated plebs in the coming days.

[Anonymous No.4989201]

>>4989200
please happyboy we love u

[Anonymous No.4989236]

>>4989176
it's the limits that make art beautiful, I hope one day you'll understand that.

[Anonymous No.4989248]

>>4989236
Ah yes, the limits

[Anonymous No.4989256]

gonna let you in on a little secret.

if you ever want to work in animation, you will be tracing constantly

[Anonymous No.4989290]

>>4989248
soul

[Anonymous No.4989301]

i mentally project the drawing in my head onto the paper and trace it

[Anonymous No.4989302]

>find a good art from some japanese artist
>mirror and rotate it
>trace over
>change the character in it
done

I've done this shit so many times and no one has caught me yet.

[Anonymous No.4989310]

>>4989302
Ok

[Anonymous No.4989690]

I only trace whenever I practice anatomy I find it easier whenever I see the outline of the pose :)

[Anonymous No.4989697]

Never, because I don't gain anything from it, like money, and if you did, you risk legal issues making money off other people's content.
You impede your monetization and knowledge, why do it? At best use things just as references.

[Anonymous No.4989708]

All digital artists trace over their own sketch or other complete works just paint over them.

I know this since I go to every single artist discord since Discord became a thing.

The only artists that draw entirely from imagination are retarded brown teenagers from twitter.

[Anonymous No.4989712]

>>4988819
I mostly use anime fanart as reference so if I trace it I would be making the same basic mistakes as the other artist

[Anonymous No.4989737]

Tracing is just a tool, like using a ruler. Anyone trying to tell you not to trace is a retarded crab.

[Anonymous No.4989964]

No, because I want to have fun drawing, and tracing is not fun, if it is not fun, why bother?

[Anonymous No.4989984]

>>4989708
>they trace over their own sketch
>this does not constitute drawing from imagination

this is your brain on /pol/

[Anonymous No.4990409]

I trace to learn but I don’t post it because for myself I feel morally obligated to not do so. As a kid I used to trace wolf drawings I liked and this helped me draw decently realistic at the age of 11. I was still shit but I had a better grasp on drawing.

[Anonymous No.4990443]

>>4988819
I rarely do and when I do it's for something that doesn't matter, like tracing letters off of a computer screen instead of printing them out or drawing them

[Anonymous No.4990539]

>>4988819
The times I traced:
- Analyzing a picture
- Tight deadline but even then, I tried to alter it as much as possible
- Stuff that would never see the light of day

[Anonymous No.4990540]

>>4989176
>>4989200
Why do I want a shitty copy of something when I can go straight to the source?

[Anonymous No.4990884]

>>4990540
>>4989201

Novelty
https://youtu.be/XKrVWddeND0

[Anonymous No.4990930]

You'll never learn how to make anything original and you'll never learn how to do any kind of gestural work by tracing. Don't be a retard. It's not hard to construct.

[Anonymous No.4990933]

>>4990930
pyw

[Anonymous No.4990934]

>>4990933

[Anonymous No.4990936]

>>4990934
>traced

[Anonymous No.4990939]

>>4990933
That you cannot accept such basic concepts shows how much of a NGMI you are.
Have fun dying one day realizing you let fear control you and only ever traced other people's shit as your "art". Wake up.

[Anonymous No.4990941]

>>4990939
>doesn't know about taking your own references

[Anonymous No.4990942]

>>4990930
these are drawings of a person who advocates tracing

get rekt

[Anonymous No.4990943]

>>4990941
Stop greentexting like a 3rd worlder.
>>4990942
That's not the same and you know it.

[Anonymous No.4990946]

>>4990943
Every decent art school teaches you tracing, keep on shouting nonsense and it might get you some followers on twitter, not here

[Anonymous No.4990949]

>>4990946
You're just in denial.

[Anonymous No.4990954]

>>4990943
>>4990949

>hurr durr b-but this method is different
sure

https://youtu.be/DtpBvK3mvh0?t=414

[Anonymous No.4990957]

>>4990954
lmao

[Anonymous No.4991118]

>>4990954
Well that explains why we get such quality art like this.

[Anonymous No.4991137]

>>4991118
probably

but then you were too stupid to understand what that video was about

[Anonymous No.4991277]

>>4990884
I think you should've specified why people think tracing is bad. All your old masters examples are ones where they made their own references and didn't copy other artists, while the cutesexyrobutts drama is where someone traced the other person's art, pretty big difference man.

[Anonymous No.4991330]

>>4991277
It is the same. Artist copies from life. I can show you many examples of old masters copying from other old masters. But that is for another video. Trust me, tracing good.

[Anonymous No.4991455]

>>4988819
I sketch the basic shapes of a head from photography all the time, then stylize the proportions. Tracing from other artists is wrong

[Anonymous No.4991458]

>>4989070
Shit like complicated angles for the head or weird hand poses are so much easier when sketching over a photograph

[Anonymous No.4991480]

>>4988894
There is some merit to this one.

[Anonymous No.4991583]

the only time i trace is when im trying to get a feeling of how to replicate something im having difficulty grasping while making a study, like correct distances of key locations on the body,complicated details, correct proportions etc.

basically, i only ever do it if i need to understand better how something is done, or to get a feeling for what is the "correct" way to draw what i am trying to draw. only do it if you actually use it as a learning tool (or if you are ultra pressed for time, like doing concept art batches)

[Anonymous No.4992241]

>>4991330
t. Sonic oc donut steal fag