I'm on my college paper and I've been tasked with making a huge portrait of Trump for the cover. Now I know Shepard Fairey got in a lot of shit for painting over an AP photo of Obama. I really don't have time to sketch up something from scratch so what's the protocol for using someone else's photo as a painting base?
no one gives a fuck, trace away. /ic/ has daily threads complaining about professionals tracing or doing paintovers, and to this day the accused still do it, and still get paid to do it.
no one gives a fuck anymore, if it looks nice who cares.
>>3138076
Really did he get in a lot of shit? Its clearly fair use but was that before it was more established in court? I didn't care about those kinds of things at the time.
>>3138744
No, he didn't. He's still able to sell the artwork, still able to keep churning out paintovers, still making mad money.
While retards here grind fundies like it matters.
>>3138744
I don't know if there was shit from the at community but there was a lawsuit.
I never use photos when I do portraits. Usually I'll just find a video and pause it on good shots and draw those. That way I'm fairly certain I'm using a shot that hasn't been drawn before.