#fwippytalks

Friend: posts about character of interest with someone else’s doing what you aimed to

This one artist I saw around that used to (idk if they still do but) trace stuff now is drawing their own works ( i hope ) and the anatomy,perspective, and proportioning has overwhelmingly degressed its.. really bad. It’s so amazing how that backfired. Tracing isn’t a good way to learn . It’s good for starting off and getting the feel of the overall work and such but it’s just not dependable. Every artist that i have seen trace work then suddenly stop (either due to being called out for it or realizing it’s wrong to do) their work quality drops so dramatically it’s shocking. Pose studies and any kind of studies are so important for an artist’s improvement, and you don’t get that with tracing because it’s like always using training wheels. If you ride a bike w training wheels on all the time and never take them off, guaranteed the time you do ride one w/o them you’ll crash. So now that they arent depending on antother work as their base their art by itself is lacking in structure and balance. It sucks to see but oh well i mean live and learn i guess??