>>2237387I'm not really sure where to start. Not the same anon, and I think I'll just start with this. It's all just tools. Are you 'cheating' when you start a fire with a lighter instead of sticks? The problem with tracing is one of two things. You're using it to look like you can draw when you can't (bad form, usually pretty damn obvious, lazy, reliance on it limits your ability to improve etc), or you're infringing on copyrights/ip/whatever (bad form, unprofessional, and basically illegal).
What the guy in the video is doing is NOT tracing (and tracing can teach you a lot if you treat it like a learning tool, btw, I'm not railing on it). Manipulating photos to build up a comp/set up color pallet is a great way to help you quickly visualize what the piece will look like when it's finished. Taking colors from a picture to build your color pallet is not 'cheating'. You still have to know how to USE those colors, how to paint, how to draw. Tracing means 'drawing over lines to copy'. He is not doing that in any sense of the definition.
Also if you're going to say what is and isn't art, you're gonna have to define art. Which is a hotmess, not gonna touch it. But in the art world, what you describe as 'not creating art', actually IS creating art. Collages are considered art, and that's just cut/pasting pics.
If you don't want to watch the whole thing, skip over to 9min in the vid. Watch a bit. Skip over to 15 min. Watch a bit. Skip to 30min in. Tell me how that's tracing. Look at what he's actually doing. If you can 'trace' from that kind of maniping and make it look good, you have the skill to do it from scratch. Doing it this way helps speed up the process (for some people at least), esp when you have to pump out tons of pics. You should try it, actually, it'll help you push past your comfort zone a bit (even if you still prefer not to do it in the future!)
Apologies for the little rant, misunderstanding basic art tools is a peeve of mine lol
