>tracing is bad When will this meme be over?

>>2432920
stop acting more retarded than you are. When people say tracing is bad, they obviously don't mean stuff like this, you stupid shit.

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lol nice thread OP ;)

>>2432920
Loomis tells you to trace in his figure drawing book

Every technique can be useful.
Tracing is a great way to gain some technical skill as well as learn how certain things are formed better. Its easily to understand how something is drawn when you actually draw over it as opposed to just trying to eyeball it.

I quickly mock-up most of my figures in Daz Studio 3D and trace them.

Tracing is a huge timesaver.

inb4
>tracing is a crutch

>>2433080
Different strokes for different folks. If you want your figures to be entirely devoid of all life and gesture, that's your decision, friend. But yes it is a huge time saver.

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This is how it should be done.

Tracing for practice is fine, but putting it in finished pieces and claiming it's all yours is a whole different thing.

>>2433723
walt disney would beg to differ.

>>2433712
Do all artists actually learn about muscles this specific in school?

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>>2433928
What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sblR0eIRW-I

>>2433933
I think I got pinkeye at work...

>>2432920
shouldn't the muscles be around 1 cm from the edge? skin has thickness no??

>>2433933
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>>2433723
This is shit. Do whatever you want.

The problem with tracing for finalized work comes in when you become constrained by the source material. It has nothing to do with cheating.

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Tracing has been just as good at teaching me anatomy as drawing from reference desu

>>2433928
No, but drawing class instructors will have students draw skeletons. How far you go with it is up to the student. It is usually a short explaination, and then an assignment that incorporates the topic. It is up to the student to do the research to effectively complete the task.

>>2433933
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