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Anyone who harshly criticizes a kid for tracing needs to get a life. So long as that person is not claiming it as their own and building drama over stolen art, it's not hurting anyone, then no big deal. Especially when credit is given.
If someone were to trace my art, I'd actually be flattered that they liked my art enough to try to imitate it. As long as they don't fully claim it.
That's just my random opinion for this subject. xD
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I don't see how tracing will build confidence, because it's not the same thing as drawing, it's a dependency on other people's art. I'd understand trying to eyeball something to understand the technique used, but tracing is a waste of time.
When I was a kid, I drew like shit, but when I look back on it now, I'm still more proud of the shitty drawings I made, than the stuff I copied.
Btw, why did you prefix your comment with "Nestly:" when your username is identical and literally ten pixels above it?
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Same here, but that's just it. You learn either way. There's no point in putting someone down for trying to learn.
It's just an old habit and something I habitually do.
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This is especially so with the work above, where it is already highly stylized.
It's a practice of following lines and filing in spaces and is as much a tool for learning as a crayon coloring book. Anyone who is actually looking for what they need to learn from such a thing (technique, anatomy, rendering) is inhibiting their practice by tracing rather than experimenting using their own work or emulating the technique.
Think of it this way, it's like a person, who knows nothing about Japanese, speaking Japanese using an old English to Japanese dictionary. If that person tried to speak, it would be unintelligible because they are skipping grammar, pronunciation, phrasing, and etiquette. They have no idea of the usage (the 'why's) of the words because their practice never called for it, and the only thing they would have practiced is opening their mouth, just as the only thing a tracer would have practiced is making lines with a pencil.
It's a waste of everyone's time.
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