Eno's Domain

I think there’s a bit of a hazy line between the two, but there’s a shitload of apologists who mistake one for the other. 

referencing - using a reference in order to visualize and execute a concept better 

tracing - using a “reference” as a base and using the primary shapes and lines of the original reference with little to no changes in order to execute a work  

My favorite case here to discuss is that of yunomi, a Japanese artist who was accused of plagarism. In a 2ch thread with the accusations, there were examples of referencing and tracing (as well as copying/pasting items without credit which is pretty stupid already and I’m sure I don’t need to talk about that).

Let’s go through the references first:

The thing is that these were used solely as references so that Yunomi could possibly figure out the anatomy working in the images. That’s fine.  

Now here’s the tracing: 

Note how the lighting on the pants and most of the shapes are exactly the same in this particular image, probably one of the most obvious cases. 

The shape of the hands is exactly the same in this case, as are the outlines of the clothing near the girl’s head. 

I’m not even going to explain these next ones: 

  And probably my favorite one: 

See the difference? 

A lot of artists, basically anywhere but Japan (and I’m not even saying this because “oh mighty Japan,” this is a seriously prominent cultural difference) shrug this sort of thing off as “necessary to the artistic process.” Yes, in most cases that would be fine, if you weren’t doing it digitally and tracing right over the picture. It’s somewhat more acceptable if you create your own references by posing and taking pictures, or ask someone else to do it.

But what people don’t get is that it’s ridiculous to simply trace to start with, and then call it a “work” and show it off and all. That’s playing connect-the-strokes. That should be practice. You might learn a bit, if you’re lucky, but you’re risking relying on references too much instead of learning how these things actually work. 

Don’t do that.

autism IS

a developmental disability

a difference in neurotype

a spectrum that presents differently in everyone

present from birth

experienced by all genders

a lifelong experience

a disability that effects communication, sensory experiences, and social interaction

experienced by all races

something to take pride in

autism ISN’T

a mental illness

a disease

in need of a cure

caused by vaccines or gluten intake

inherently bad

something that destroys people’s lives

something only cishet white boys experience

something you grow out of

a ‘puzzle piece’ missing in our brains

being autistic is a varied experience. if you’ve met one autistic person, that’s exactly it — you’ve met one autistic person. we’re just as unique as allistic people, we aren’t a monolith, and we aren’t incapable of speaking for ourselves. we’ve been screaming for years, allistics just have yet to listen to us.

1) DON’T use your search bar to find and open the Run app

2) DON’T type in services.msc

3) DON’T find Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Services and right-click to get a dropdown menu, and don’t select ‘properties’

4) if you happen to click properties, DON’T use the startup type dropdown to locate the option to disable the program. be sure you DON’T click apply to finalize that change. 

5) DO NOT do the same thing in order to also disable Adobe Genuine Software Monitor 

if you do all of these things, this WILL disable adobe’s ability to monitor the software, and you will be forced to continue using the same older software that you already paid for instead of having to sign up for a newer, shittier version and pay more for it. so if you have lots of cash to spare and are cool with putting it the pockets of racketeering capitalists, definitely don’t do any of these things. 

I’M SORRY MA'AM. I KNOW YOU’RE UPSET.

 For example if a wanted to make a cartoon character realistic and use a real person for reference or to edit the photo to look like them?

https://generated.photos/faces

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Look at what you can sort by!