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11 years ago
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Just a note on copying my work: I don't mind if you do it for your own enjoyment [not for money/on commission]. If you want to use something I've done as a reference and redraw it to help you learn or because you like the style, I don't really care as long as you credit me if you upload it and link back to the image you referenced. Also, showing me wouldn't hurt cause I'd like to see.
Being honest, I used to redraw a lot of peoples' artwork when I was first starting out in furry art [around age 14]. Previous to that, I only really drew feral animals so it was hard for me to break into human/were[wolf] anatomy. I never scanned or uploaded anything that wasn't uniquely mine, but those referenced drawings I did privately helped inform what I liked during the early days. They gave me a bit of stylistic foundation, some of which I've adapted quite a lot and still use in some form today.
However, referencing someone else's art is not a substitute for doing your own research. At some point, to grow as an artist, you will have to start referencing photos and real life [photos can sometimes look really weird, so referencing real life is best when possible]. If you learn by copying someone else's art, you will also learn their mistakes. It's way harder to correct learned mistakes later on than it is to just use proper references and draw something unique. There are some good tutorials out there about how to collect and utilize references.
It's also not as fun years down the road if your style is just a direct copy of someone else's style. One of my favorite things is when someone tells me they recognized a picture I drew as being mine without even knowing I did it. :) If you're drawing in someone else's style, that will be such a rare thing for you! You'll just get stuff like "Wow, this really reminds me of X person's style!"
So tl;dr: You can totally copy my stuff [again, not trace], but please credit me if you upload your version!
Just a note on copying my work: I don't mind if you do it for your own enjoyment [not for money/on commission]. If you want to use something I've done as a reference and redraw it to help you learn or because you like the style, I don't really care as long as you credit me if you upload it and link back to the image you referenced. Also, showing me wouldn't hurt cause I'd like to see.
Being honest, I used to redraw a lot of peoples' artwork when I was first starting out in furry art [around age 14]. Previous to that, I only really drew feral animals so it was hard for me to break into human/were[wolf] anatomy. I never scanned or uploaded anything that wasn't uniquely mine, but those referenced drawings I did privately helped inform what I liked during the early days. They gave me a bit of stylistic foundation, some of which I've adapted quite a lot and still use in some form today.
However, referencing someone else's art is not a substitute for doing your own research. At some point, to grow as an artist, you will have to start referencing photos and real life [photos can sometimes look really weird, so referencing real life is best when possible]. If you learn by copying someone else's art, you will also learn their mistakes. It's way harder to correct learned mistakes later on than it is to just use proper references and draw something unique. There are some good tutorials out there about how to collect and utilize references.
It's also not as fun years down the road if your style is just a direct copy of someone else's style. One of my favorite things is when someone tells me they recognized a picture I drew as being mine without even knowing I did it. :) If you're drawing in someone else's style, that will be such a rare thing for you! You'll just get stuff like "Wow, this really reminds me of X person's style!"
So tl;dr: You can totally copy my stuff [again, not trace], but please credit me if you upload your version!
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And speaking of which, need and reference photos for anything? ~.^
When you're searching, it's Resources and Stock Images>Stock Images. I've never tried to submit anything like that though, so I'm assuming they divide it up into Full Body and other such sub-categories.
That being said I can't wait to get to the point where I'm good enough that people are copying me ^_^