Quote Originally Posted by Almalexia View Post
I don't think anyone cares if you trace. Lots of people trace. The problem is making money off of it.

I don't know anything about Japanese copyright or work-for-hire laws, but Yamashita - although an independent artist - has been an employee of Squenix and Bamco in the past. The last thing you want to do is take commission on drawings that are strikingly similar to originals owned by international corporations.

Just saying.
I was pretty much going to type up something similar to this but you beat me to it, I'm fairly certain most people here don't mind that you're tracing/being inspired by anothers art just don't charge people for something like this, that said I think it is nice of you to do these requests for people I just wish they would take it to another thread as I have seen about 20 of these requests and it's kinda annoying.