Most HATED Thing on Art TikTok

what do you think about tracing art, be honest...

As a person who used to trace when I was younger and is an artist now, it depends on HOW you trace. If youre using it to get better at anatomy or to get better in drawing in your own style, then thats fine! but if your tracing someone elses art without permission or credits, or is just tracing to do it and not saying you did and passing it off as your own art, then that's unacceptable.

the morality behind tracing heavily depends on the artist intention

i swear being an artist is so hard these days :sob:

Im for 15 years in the art community and working 4 years now in the professional scene. Tracing is a skill you should def learn. It saves so much time. Like trace your own hand or anatomy. Define your shapes by tracing. If your using someone elses art. Its better to keep it for yourself due to moral reasons and ofc plagiarism. Simple

This is why I hate Pinterest so much, people posting there are mainly stealing art and repost without crediting :/

I used to trace over art and colored without crediting the acutal person it posted on Instagram as mine eventually when I learned it's bad I deleted my whole Instagram account cuz I felt guilty. Now I do my own art and i proud of it

Hirohiko araki, the creator of jojos bizarre adventure, is heavily referencing models on fashion covers or pictures for the famous poses of his own characters. This is well known among the Jojo Fandom but Noone really thinks badly of it. I think this is because araki is known to be passionate about fashion even having collabed multiple times with fashion brands like Gucci, Balenciaga, converse etc. When people see the reference I think they see it more as paying homage to the original as opposed to stealing from it or something like that. So the relationship between the artist and whatever is used as tracing material or reference seems to matter as well.

My old art teacher would yell at us for using a reference, not even tracing, because "you are not a real artist if you can't draw/come up with something yourself". Gave me a really bad complex for quiet a while and even now I struggle using a reference. As long as you trace to learn or to just get the base of something going, it should be fine. Wish my teachers would have had the same mindset about art as you do.

Back in my day we had “bases” taken from anime and manga and people would use them to draw their own characters and OCs. TikTok would lose their damn MINDS.

Just so people know, Tracing is a VALID technique to save time in a professional setting. Game designers use it ALOT, animators do and comic artists who work with teams do too! It's to make sure styles remain consistent, or if you're say needing to make 100 different outfits for a model that's in a game like a Warhammer RTS and you have hundreds of individual units and need to decide on a uniform look for the army /regiments. Actually, the art book that came with Warhammer Online has THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS in practice! They use the one image of a dwarf or skaven and trace over the image to create many variations of clothing for the models. It's really interesting to see it in professional production work. Also PLEASE stay away from the anti/pro ship discourse. It will keep you sane.

bro be sitting like a news reporter in business

I am an artist who uses a lot of 3D models in my art so I can quickly set up reference pics for my art. I trace over them using them more so as a lose guide for my final drawing and will gladly make adjustments as needed (years of study taught me where fixes meed to go). Doing this actually taught me how to freehand perspective, draw with confidence, and break down my figures a lot more easy. My art has improved a lot over the time I've been doing this and I can also get my work done faster.

Actually, when I was going through my longest and most stubborn art block, the only way I could produce a piece of art is when I traced another artist’s artwork, of course I never profited off of it, but it made my inspiration come back and before I knew it, I went back to drawing, ironically it was the method that made me create one of my most original art pieces to date lol.

I feel like there is no right or wrong with art, it's how you use it like how you trace. If you trace and try learning from it then that's perfectly okay. But if you claim it as yours without the artist's consent then that's not okay. Tracing can be used as a tool to learn from it, not just copy it, if you want to learn anatomy by tracing then go ahead just don't claim it as yours you still need to provide credits, That is how tracing should be used.

Tracing actually has made me better. when i actually started drawing on my own I was SIGNIFICANTLY better than before i started tracing

I personally found tracing wasnt bad idea, its really help me to understand the basic shape by making a breakdown of it first. Not blatantly just tracing it. Because of that, i can know if something off with my artwork, like the anatomy is weird or the foreshortening is absurd. Personally, i found fundamental is pretty hard to learn for someone who cant draw, like me for example. To understand fundamental, i should draw first, to create muscle memory for myself first (which by tracing). then the fundamental fix the issue i had, if i have no idea what to do with my artwork. My method can be right and wrong for some, but since i enjoyed that method, so i still drawing until now

So, in art school, we actually did use tracing as a method of learning, but the key way to trace with intention. You weren't just copying lines, but really thinking about the reason the artist made those decisions. These were NEVER passed off as original works or finished pieces. As an illustrator I've used tracing over my own photos as a shortcut when on a deadline, though I prefer not to because it always feels less dynamic.

Raises hand. I made a drawing of one of my newest character then I traced over it, then took that trace and traced over it. Every iteration made my character look even better each time. So... yes?

I’m a 14 year old artist and tracing does help me a lot! I use it for chibis and front facing!!!!! Seeing this video is helping me form my own solid opinion as well!!!! :)