*laughs*

I think this is a natural progression of improving your abilities as an artist. :-D

Anyone who says otherwise is either extremely lucky to be so talented...or lying to themselves. LOL's

You're awesome buddy.

There is nothing wrong in this your using the pose as a reference and making your own art from it witch is normal

If I ever get the motivation to like, actually learn how to draw and stuff, I will almost certainly just, save every different body pose I make as like 'pose a-z' and then when I wanna draw something I'll be like 'which pose would I want'

This feels like a reaction to BabyStar's journal.

it is. I messaged her. She was being a silly

i'm really a guy the 2nd oc by nightshade is actually me

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51167745/

If Babystar didn't disable comments, I would have said the same thing I will here. It's called referencing. It's a good way to improve and put out the best art you can. I do it too and so should every artist. No idea where this came from. XD

This was my reaction as well

Well... Even if don't draw a lot myself, it's a technique I use regularly.
I don't see the problem in this.
What matters is the final result, the drawing you wanted to do and share. If it allows you to increase its quality, then it's perfect !

Even the masters still use references. The ability to draw entirely from imagination is so rare it might as well be fictional.

The sad thing is, while it is a valuable tool when starting to underatand how to draw certain poses until they become natural enough to not need to trace any more, some people will whine and moan and wail as though artists have to be amazingly talented right from the get go and never trace anything ever.

Tracing for pose refs is a training tool :3

that's a quite good reference there xD

it's not so much misuse...
you can't really copyright a pose.
it's just a set of "characteristic curvatures".
these are just "tools of the trade".
ahh.... you're being ironic i bet Xp

Partial tracing both reference and photos is actually a super common process. Something that is done almost daily in the concept art industry. As long as it isn't a total 1 for 1 trace then it's pretty much a done thing.
There is nothing bad about it, it's just a stigma because of the common misconception that if you trace shapes, reference parts then you are a fake artist.
I found the same when learning 3d. I had the mindset I had to make everything myself, had to create every item and texture and using available resources was a lie.
I'm doing a concept art course online thing and the first things it went over that there are many ways to do art and tracing parts or reference to get shapes, poses or small details that either would take ages or you didn't have the skill to do outright is ok and is actually super common.
As long as it's just not taking someone else's work tracing it nearly completely then it's ok.

I mean I traced the outline and core shapes of a car photo. I can't do it by full hand yet myself but then made it into a mad max style car.

Anyone that says tracing is bad and you are fake for doing it has no idea on how art is done in any medium.

Honestly have more respect for artists that don't fall Into the stigma.

I feel you. I'm a gamedev, and folks are so weirdly into being a solo dev. Like, what do people think that's going to do for them? Prestige? You get to keep the profits?

You're not doing it alone anyways. Folks often say "don't use a game engine!" and it's like, they're not suggesting you use a library either, they're saying "Write your own game engine" and writing a game engine is an entirely different skillset than making actual games with an engine! That's part of why they're usually made by many people, especially modern games. On top of that, though, most folks don't write their own programming language, and both Windows and Linux are made by tons of people working together. You want to use DirectX? OpenGL? You didn't heccing make that.

It's fine to use whatever resources you want, but acting like the game is better because you intentionally handicapped yourself or did it in a harder way for no reason doesn't make sense. A game is only better when people enjoy it more. ^.^;;

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Use of a mirror in the work is so good too, for expressions and hands, and the 3D models are good to solve doubts and stole all the Loomis references is so helpful.

a character pose isa stick figure and nothing more, prove me wrong?

My thoughts exactly.

Honestly, I find nothing wrong with this if this is your way of learning how to do stuff.
It's a great way to train your hands to draw stuff.

I know it's helped me a bit to print out stuff I like and practice drawing over it on tracing paper.
Of course, I'd always credit what I used

Norman Rockwell took photos of people and places and used them as references, rather than making people pose for hours. Sometimes he traced over those photos.
Also, rotoscoping exists.
I think people like to find issues that in the end don't really matter much, and then go on purity crusades because it feels better than dealing with reality.