Transfer onto canvas or free-hand?

It doesn't matter as long as you don't call it your own work.

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That's a pretty stupid sentiment bruh. What the fuck do you think of printmaking? What the fuck do you think of photography? What the fuck do you think of found object art?

If you're replicating an image in a different medium to create a different look you're creating a novel work divorced from it's source. Of course it becomes "your own work." Nobody gives a shit about the AP photographer that took the photo that Shepard Fairey turned into the HOPE piece. Nobody gives a shit about the guys that took the photos that Warhol replicated.

Not to mention that the question wasn't really about making EXACT replicas of other people's shit, just using a transfer medium to get your image on the canvas instead of spending the additional time trying to recreate the image free hand. I use existing images all the time that are edited and altered in photoshop, printed, transferred, and painted. If you think that effort and outcome isn't *my* work you're a bit of a pretentious know-nothing dickhead.