My contribution to the tracing discourse

Bro catch me drawing an anatomically correct skull or a bicycle from scratch when I’m DEAD. Even Disney was rotoscoping and reusing assets when hand drawing. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci even used the “camera obscura” to trace images and help understand images in a 2D view.

Are you FUCKING kidding me?! Candle wax on the BOOKS?!

As long as ur tracing photographs and not others artwork, I don't see the issue 🤷‍♀️

artists have been tracing for centuries who caressssss I don't understand twitter

*Not traced just want to show how I drew a skull because I love them and it's technically related ❤️‍🩹

Not to mention the guy bringing it up and getting pissy over artists using references and tracing uses AI 🫥

my dumbass drawing shit freehand with no reference (I'm both retards)

as long as you’re not tracing someone else’s art and claiming it’s yours TRACE IF YOU WANT

honestly, tracing for anatomy studies makes so much sense

what's the discourse?

I tend to beat myself up personally (but that's a me problem)

don't bother, it's always the folks who do not have any knowledge about art, haven't touched a brush in their entire life, who say that tracing is cheating

I mean, back then, artists had to be creative with tracing. They had to invent a device that would let them see the person they were trying to draw and the paper they were drawing on at the same time. Artists should work smarter, not harder.

"Everyone was condemnin tracin until AI!!" Dont tell em that In addition to using live models Disney studios made extensive use of rotoscopin in their old movies. So use legal references, learn, have fun. As long as you dont steal from other artists its legal. Legal for years.

Tbh I though every artist does this with stockphotos and still life. As long it’s not other ppl work.

Not usually tracing, but did this challenge

But if you trace an Ai reference, everyone loses their minds!

agree, no way I'm gonna properly draw a skull when it's just a prop

Look, mate, tracing ain't wrong I don't see a problem with it So long as you don't trace it without giving credit to the photographer if such is the case, like that fat fucking idiot andrew dobson once did.

I think the ultimate opinion of this should be tracing is fine as long as it's used more as referencing with the reference directly behind instead of tracing to steal, but if you're tracing an object/thing you wanna really get good at you can't do that with tracing alone

Tracing sucks dick and all who do it should be embarrassed

Whenever this topic comes up, you can tell who’s actually worked a job.

People r so dumb with that discourse man additionally im curious what brush this is bc its kinda fire just like the art

Real life and 3D models references my beloved

Literally taught to do this is my illustration course in college - totally normal to do!

Every like 2 months this tracing BS comes up and it’s always so easily disproven

If someone can making tracing look bad/obvious and another person can make tracing look great and unnoticeable then it’s proof of the artist’s talent

The modern art community so so retarded and lame. These assholes are saying you should be embarrassed, but the end result looks great and that's what matters.

why do ppl demonize tracing , am i just supposed to pull shit out of my ass ?? no ofc i need a reference pic for proportions etc

People act as if tracing isn't best starting point to learn objects. If you struggle to draw from nature (observing), tracing helps you understand shapes. Why is it even a discussion?

Not even discourse, it's just ai users crying because they're so utterly devoid of talent AND motivation to improve that to them usage of gen AI is equivalent to tracing real life objects

i'm just not going to prove myself or debate techniques with people who have never picked up a pencil

I do this with some firearms lol

mind u in art classes they literally teach you how to trace efficiently