It’s fkn weird being a person who just enjoys things. 

You know everyone will give you a hard time for using ketchup.  But with food, Grandmas are always right.

This isn’t tracing.

Fading between art and reference, especially with this artist’s fairly realistic style is misleading. Look closely, and you can clearly see that things don’t quite line up.

Art references are standard practice. You don’t see people freaking out over style and costume refences in Sailor Moon (https://d…

Apparently she just straight up stole it from someone on Twitter

A pretty demanding attitude you have toward people inviting you into their home. 

This is the best and the brightest of the Republican Party.

There is no way a staffer didn’t write that goulash pun. Sure it’s an easy reach, but I can’t believe she remotely has a sense of humor.

Except you can’t prove if it was traced or not. Dipshit. 

Yeah there’s a stigma that using reference photos makes you a bad artist, especially from people outside the field. I’ve also seen it with new hires trying to prove themselves, which has caused tasks to either take to long or notes such as “There’s no visible weight to this static leaning body, did you use reference?…

JFC, THANK YOU for saying this. I used to get in trouble in art classes all the time for NOT using reference.

The levels of idiocy this woman reaches on a regular basis is astounding

professional illustrator/animator here

That is the whole point of using a reference. If he wasn’t trying to fucking line it up then no reason for a reference. You just proved he is good a recreating art. You can get lots of artwork to lineup when you scale and skew an image over another. 

Hey guys, professional illustrator/animator here, I know I’m inviting the pitchforks and torches with this but I’d like to put out that the vast majority of us (ie artists) use reference material very liberally. It’s a very important facet of our process, and we are trained to use it whenever possible. “Work smarter,…

Its not literally tracing unless they literally traced it. Which they said they didn’t (and they obviously didn’t—just look at the jawline, hair, nose, mouth, chin, etc etc on the video thumbnail alone. if it was traced they would be the same)

If you don’t think that using references and tracing is not a thing in the professional art world, you’re very much incorrect. Even the old masters did this, just look up “camera obscura”.

Definitely directly replicated, but there’s no reason to assume they’re traced. The artist is clearly good enough to just copy something from reference, and apart from the composition, nothing lines up perfectly enough to suggest they’re literally traced. But then, I feel like a lot of people these days use the word…

That’s my take on this. Do people really think anyone could just trace a photo and end up with a finished piece that looks like those? It still takes a lot of skill and creative decision making.

I don’t have any problems with any of this.  They all seem different enough to be considered an original piece.  There’s original artistry in ever single one of these.

The link doesn’t work for me, but are they just saying he traced reference images?