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Copying someone else's work does little to improve your own talent. Because you are working off of other's work, you aren't actually using your own creativity to bring about a new piece. Copy the pose, fine, but the entire outfit too? That's too far. It takes the littlest amount of effort to change the pose and make it your own. Simply drawing over someone else's stuff isn't the way to go.
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It takes all of two seconds to imagine a new position, even based off another one. Doing this actually challenges your artistic abilities, and makes you think more than copying ever would. Then you have to actually think "Well hmm, with his arm like this, how would that make the material fold differently?" etc. etc.
All of you defending it aren't realizing that this isn't a matter of referencing. Referencing is something every artist does, looking at something and using it to better their own original piece. And you can say "Borrow" all you want, but there's a fine line between "borrowing" and "stealing". And to a lot of people, they are one in the same, especially when it comes to art.
It takes all of two seconds to imagine a new position, even based off another one. Doing this actually challenges your artistic abilities, and makes you think more than copying ever would. Then you have to actually think "Well hmm, with his arm like this, how would that make the material fold differently?" etc. etc.
All of you defending it aren't realizing that this isn't a matter of referencing. Referencing is something every artist does, looking at something and using it to better their own original piece. And you can say "Borrow" all you want, but there's a fine line between "borrowing" and "stealing". And to a lot of people, they are one in the same, especially when it comes to art.
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[sub]Folken Grymtooth / Shippuu Nammuu[/sub]