[Fett]

thanks to everybody!!!
yes fett, the lans flare can also be eliminated…
now i go away for a week to Easter, i'll be back wensday or thursday.. 😉

BOO!  😡

Ah, ok. By the way, I don't want the lens flare eliminated – I just want YOU to do it. No, "filter" menu for you. 😛

Have a good Easter! 😀

[Fett]

That's terrific!

The only problem I have is the lens flare. I think you can do better than photoshop's filter. 😉

But that is one of your best ever, indeed. Lots of fun. Love it. 😀

[Fett]

I never looked at the pictures in question, and never said he wasn't plagiarising, nor that you were wrong. There just seemed to be a consensus in this thread that tracing/copying is somehow the devil's work. I just wanted to clarify that their tools, like any other, for learning how to draw.

Everyone in this thread was saying that if you've been plagiarised, you deserve to be pissed off, and then was checking to with you to make sure you had indeed been plagiarised or if perhaps, you were overreacting by being a bit sensitive about the subject (which would also be understandable).

No one was saying you were wrong, nor trying to prove to you that you were wrong, but instead trying to gauge just why you were so pissed off and trying to help, and some people obviously missed a couple of details from your posts and asked for clarifications.

People aren't trying to prove you wrong, they're trying to be pleasant and helpful.

So, thanks for all the yelling. That was nice.

[Fett]

That's all the pieces you've done. 🙁 We need more!

[Fett]

I don't think anyone is defending him, so much as they are defending the concept that tracing can be a helpful learning tool.

At least that's what I'm saying.

[Fett]

What I've found helpful from tracing is simply this:

Lines are an icon. By drawing a line which joins itself up into a circle, and then, inside that line, drawing two more circles and then a straight line beneath them – you create a face. This is what emoticons are, no?  🙂 See?

Right, so, lines have a specific meaning in our brains as icons. When I, Kulli, DCM, Red, Gettar, Rex, Wreck, Mr Sshh, Black Kusanagi, Iczerman, Kinsyo, Coyote, Archangel Dreadnought, Zebody, The Collector 2, and anyone else I may have forgotten, regardless of style, skill, or talent, makes a drawing, the lines we use are perceived by the brain to generate whatever it is we're supposed to see.

See, the lines aren't a car, a woman, a bicep – they're lines. But arranged in certain ways, they create a pattern that says to us "car", "woman", "bicep".

So, when I trace, I use the tracing as a way of seeing just which lines create what effect.

For example: I trace a face, and after I'm done, I look at the tracing on its own and discover that the face is old and wrinkly – because I've put too many lines down. So I trace again, taking away a line here, adding a line there, and so forth, in an attempt to understand what lines create an eye, an expression, and so forth.

That is why I think tracing can be an effective learning tool. 🙂

[Fett]

Great stuff.

[Fett]

I learned, and continue to learn to draw, by tracing. It's particularly helpful in translating the effect of lines as icons in representing whatever it is you wish to draw.

So, I trace all the time.

If I were to post my tracings, I would of course, mention where the original image I traced came from.

That said, tracing isn't much different from references. It's just a matter of making people aware of where the work comes from.

I dunno if I even bring a point worth stating to this thread, as it seems I'm agreeing with everybody.

So in summation – everyone is right. 😀

[Fett]

I honestly don't know if my cookies are on or off. Damn that Maxorg bastard. 😐

[Fett]

I'm having the same problem as no6 (or is that no1 :wink:).

Basically, I'm pretty sure since the most recent change, the vast majority of times I log in (I can't remember when this DIDN'T happen, but I know it has) it says, "There are no new unread posts" when I click on the link to see what's been posted since I last arrived.

I blame Maxorg, King of the Volcanic Lava Cactus Men. It's hailing outside, which means he's up to his no good tricks, once again.

CURSE YOU MAXORG!

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