Oh man o_o Wow. XD Lol. ::laugh:: Art theft. O_o; Glad you're laughing at it. I'd be furious D:

I think he would be furious if the guy was more famous that him. LOL

ROFL!
Yay, go Nevar!

Insta Fav!

Nevar is god!

*imagines the whiney "Nu-uh! I drew it myself! I just used yours as a guide."*

I had someone draw fan art for my comic once but tracing one of my drawings and changing a beer mug in the character's hand to a knife.

They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but its also the most annoying.

*laughs* You got your cliche in seconds before mine. ;)

If there's one thing I know about...its cliches. :)

When the emitation is cheap.... yes! lol

Picasso said that he can make Picasso imitations as well as anyone. Hehehehe.

*chuckles* I guess they say imitation is the best form of flattery.

LOLOL

LAWL.

NEVAR WINS THE INTERNETS!!!

8D

*chuckles* Thank him for the flash as well, Nevar. ;) Your art's in that one too!

lol yeah i just watched it.

the only decent drawing he has in the flash is the copy of this pic!! XD

And an actual trace, from the looks of it! XP

And their also trying to defend themselves! :D

people amuse me

Heh. Too funny.

Congrats =) I suppose that means you are famous enough to be art-thefted. That is a good sign somehow, well... somehow =P

XD awesome.

Gah! I hope you reported the guy who stole your art! This person needs to be spanked. =I

I love the 'I found it on Google so then I don't have to give any credit!' mentality.

ooooh! a direct trace!!!

You have officially reached the ranks of internet fame!!!

Wow. Flattering, after a fashion.

I will never understand why people think this sort of thing is a good idea.

Nevar' before you have been art-thefted :)

ZOMG HEAD ON A PIKE!!!!

damn a direct hit this time XD nice one on nailing it

http://himur4.deviantart.com/

There is MOOOREEE!

Oh man gotta report him there too ><

Already did. ;}

Make sure you guys report hims, Im sure you have but yeah ^^; sill art theifs

I always wonder how people find artists who theive their art..

I, thankfully, haven't found anyone trying to copy my stuff yet (maybe I'm just not good enough!! *sob*). I mean..they'd probably get away with it, considering I am not a very popular artist..

How did you find out about this?

KC (who is the character in the ripped icon) and Mid pointed it out to me. I don't doubt that I've been ripped before/other times, but this is the first time I've been aware of it. XD

Okay.

I will admit to collecting art from favorite artists for two reasons:
1. Because I like the work
2. To study different techniques and proportions in poses to try and improve my own art


I will also admit to tracing things for two reasons:
1. I'm tracing my own art to maintain symetry or consistancy in certain things I draw
2. To teach my hands to create certain shapes I might need so I can draw them accurately freepaw

Is doing any of those things wrong? No. I draw all my own art freepaw in my own style as I see them in my own mind. I will however borrow and modify techniques for certain things like markings, hair, fur, feathers, etc, to try and draw things more accurately. If I draw someone else's character, I either ask permission to draw the piece or I am commissioned to do so.

Stealing is wrong. Learning by example is not. There is a huge difference there.

No one said it wasn't. This is obviously traced, and this guy didn't ask before he put it up. Completely different from what you're talking about.

Oh I know, thus is why I posted the way I did. Too many people think that stealing and tracing like he did is acceptable behavior. It isn't. I was illustrating the difference.

Ahh, okay, thanks for clearing that up for me. =)

No problem hon. **hugs** Love your art by the way, gorgeous stuff. **grins**

You don't learn anything constructive from tracing. The only way to improve is to draw it yourself, and to draw from life

Actually, tracing basic shapes helps with muscle memory. Believe me, I know from long experience. Years ago I had trouble drawing roses and skulls, so, I traced several of them to get the feel of the shape and forms I needed. Now I easilly draw them freepaw like everything else. Everything I have drawn and posted here are all free paw drawings. There have been imges that I have drawn that I liked certain parts of, but wanted to change others. So I retraced what I liked and redrew what I didn't like. In the end a better picture was the result. There is indeed constructive learning from tracing, as long as one does not rely soley on tracing to learn. I only use it as a last resort for new shapes, or for redrawing an existing image of my own creation for alterations. It has been many years since I have used tracing to learn a new shape, but I still use it on my own work to improve what I do create. I do not trace other people's work, only my own.

Tracing does not help you get the shapes to muscle memory. Understanding how the body works and moves and drawing it from a life sketch helps that. Your art would improve a lot in proportions and depth if you started to draw from life more and phased that part out of your techinque. I have talked to a lot of artists and this is always the advice they give me. Not to say my art is the da bomb shit or anything but take it from me who had been where you were as an artist not to long back. Your art will improve remarkably if you don't trace other art at all. You can reference and copy the masters, but tracing over lines is just going to make your art stilted and will not teach you fundamental anatomy.

Tracing does help muscle memory. I spent a few years inking animation cells. Converting my pencil lines to ink is improved and much easier. Smooth strokes that go clear across the page takes a steady hand and muscle control (that comes from practice). Sometimes I have to hold my breath -.- But, yeah, inking is a kind of tracing and it takes a lot of practice and muscle memory and control.

Well yeah I can see how tracing helps inkers, but it doesn't help anatomy.

But yes, I concede. You are correct

"Tracing does not help you get the shapes to muscle memory. Understanding how the body works and moves and drawing it from a life sketch helps that."

Hmmmm, I think you might be getting muscle memory and training of the eye mixed up. Muscle memory involves handling and control. Observation from life trains the eye, which is important and very closely linked with the ability to draw. It's the capacity to make observations about something that normally wouldn't get noticed.

That's why when you're at your drawing class and you hear someone step back from their drawing, look at the subject and go, "Aw, #&%&@^*!!!" That is the sound of them noticing something that they missed before. My teacher always thought that was a good sign.

Muscle memory is what they're training when they teach you how to draw letters in school first by tracing and then drawing the letter again and again and again. Now you can draw that letter instantly without having to think about it.

Certain kinds of tracing really does take an amount of talent. Like if you're tracing a photograph of your face, lines don't exist in reality. So you gotta make up where lines go. It's a whole problem-solving process.

Looks like they straight up traced your art.
I admit I have commited the sin of refrencing other artists work to draw, but never traced. I've since learned the only way to really improve is to draw from life which is what I am trying to do to improve. Your being a really good sport about this which is cool.

Congrats, now you know you've made it in the art world.