#takethathaters

So, i want to tell you a story. (Bear with me, its not long).

Ever since i was a little kid, i was constantly picked artistically for tracing my work. I was picked on by family members and kids at school. It has been a ghost that has followed me throughout my entire life, by people who couldn't understand what I was doing. To them, it was non-original crap. And I know that, because some of them have been kind enough to tell it to my face.

I also want to say that I still trace a majority of my work, and credit the artists who are responsible for their creations (some of them have given me comments on how to improve, which are on my instagram). However, a lot of the work that I do is traced off of coloring pages (free copyright) and scientific illustrations (from the 1900s).

This piece which i am sharing was based off of a reference image, but it is a completely original piece of work. Everything in this is So take that haters. I CAN do something original and claim that I have done so.