As someone who has a fierce passion for comics and hopes to one day break into the business it's extremely frustrating to see seasoned veterans pull shit like this. Below are pages from Invincible Iron Man #27 with art by Salvador Larocca. Take a look.
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Now take a look at some pictures I Googled of Sawyer from LOST.
Salvador Larocca isn't the only person Guilty of this.
Greg Land is guilty of it too. The image above is actually Greg Land's are preceded by a photoshopped image comprised of all the images Land traced.
Worse yet, Greg Land also traces other artists!
Above is Greg Land in color, and Travis Charest in black and white.
For someone who is trying to break in this is a slap in the face.
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Also, I'm pretty sure the woman in that first example is traced Nicole Kidman.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong, but I don't think that an artist using another picture as a reference constitutes tracing or cheating.
ReplyDeleteI thought using photos or even a live model as a reference for art was one of the first things learned by artists and one of those basic skills that would, could, and should always be used.
I think what these guys are doing is way beyond reference, It's visual plagiarism.
ReplyDeleteFor those last few, I'm inclined to agree.
ReplyDeleteThese are not artists, there are tracers. Artists use references to understand the pose/anatomy/lighting, but they won't trace the whole picture. That's cheating and the artist won't learn anything by doing this. But when artists copy photos or something that's on their desks (still life), they are studying, they won't publish these as their creative work, they might post somewhere but explaining it is a study, not a finished creative artwork.
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