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Published: 2008-01-15 22:34:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 1886; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 52
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A assignment... Nicole Kidman. Painter... a few hours... man using a reference sure cuts down loads of time spent xperimenting with lightings...My first try at a non-manga styled digital piece.
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OMG! This really looks like her! NK is my favorite actress. Well done person I have never seen before!
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To what extent was a reference used? Were you looking at the picture or did you trace it?
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I'm having a nudging feeling that this is more like a 'i bet he copied the picture' kind of affirmation than a 'what technique did he use?' question.
So to answer defensively:
"My lecturer told me that this is one of those things u don't mention but use a lot of advertising artworks n kinda implored us to pick a reference they had prepared n trace and recolor it. I'm not a fan of trace-work (or even referencing) but i would rate failing classes a tad lower than tracing."
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... then you did copy the picture.
I wouldn't rate failing classes lower than tracing. Since tracing teaches you nothing, and failing at least tells you you did it wrong.
If you did trace it, you need to source your original material.
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Tell that to the hundreds of people earning a living in the advertising industry, which btw is what my school is engineered towards. I'm not happy with tracing I have told you but if this is how my school wishes to teach me I will learn it.
My source for the original material would be my school because I did not choose it i was given it.
So if this matter of failing being worse than tracing is not to your fancy, please contact my school, The One Academy. For your convenience, here is their email for general enquiries and possibly complaints.
enquiry@toa.edu.my
And what you learn is decided by what you decide to learn, there are those who can learn more by tracing than failing, unless of cos you are one of those that don't know another world besides that of failure.
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BAWW
Please don't patronize me.
A trace is not equal to a referenced picture. A referenced picture means the pose or composition is derivative from another piece, probably a photograph. It is not traced.
A trace is when you literally a DRAW OVER another picture, creating a copy. Since you're constructing effectively nout, you learn nothing.
It's actually against the ToS on this website, because it's claiming someone else's intellectual property (the photo), as your own. I doubt this image is free-source.
c. to upload, post, or otherwise transmit any material that infringes any copyright, trade mark, patent or other intellectual property right or any moral right or artist's right of any third party including, but not limited to, deviantART;
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Maybe i'll just take this piece of work down if it bothers you, but I implore you to find the other ones and take them down too. To clarify why tracing occurred here, I painted that piece for my Digital Illustration class, and having drawn 4 figures a week (even during breaks n what-not) for 2 years, most students can already draw correct proportions.
And because my school tends to overload their students with work, the lecturers asked us to just trace the lines and focus on the objective of the subject, which was coloring using a digital medium, because previously they had only taught us traditional media.
Another thing is, the stuff I post here are me using manga-art, not the photo-realism I learned in school, so don't expect to see too much of realistic proportions. If your understanding of manga is limited to Yugi-Oh and Pokemon, please do not say anything against the genre (i said GENRE, not my work, although saying stuff like the head is too big, eyes too big would be the genre becos most manga drawings have these traits).
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I don't care about your school.
I've not mentioned your style in this conversation about this specific picture. Why would you bring in something irrelevent?
It's against the ToS of the website. End of discussion, really.
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