Draw your Character

[Tharian]

That's a meme. The people making the memes are not doing it for monetary gain. They are simply doing it to convey a message.
Everyone on the thread agreed that it's okay to trace art so long as you SAY that you did. The artist has blatantly traced the art and yet claims that no tracing was used. That's why people are complaining. Plus, she wanted to charge people for it and that's just taking it that extra step too far.

Please make sure you actually follow the thread properly before trying to defend someone who has actually done something that's frowned upon.

Did you guys not see the part of my post talking about Rei Ayanami, Shana, and Char Aznable Clones? Yes what I posted is a meme, but that doesn't change the fact that copying other people's art is something that happens in mainstream Anime and Manga quite often.

Also, I am not defending the person, I am defending the Art.

[Morsmordie]

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You're missing the point here...

Everyone agreed that copying other art is fine so long as you say that you did... If she said "oh look, I used this as a reference/I traced a part of it, but I changed it, look how pretty it looks" then people would have been okay with it. No one is attacking her for the fact that she traced the stuff. They are simply saying that it's silly to deny the fact that she did it even though there is blatant evidence that she did.

Also, once again since you seem to randomly skip bits when you're reading a comment, she wanted to charge people for money and that is just not right. She wouldn't have drawn the full thing and even if she edits a few things, she's still copying someone else's work. If she was talking to the artist and they got a share of that commission money, that's fine but she is simply taking full credit for something she didn't fully produce. THAT was the problem, not the tracing.

[Demus]

Did you guys not see the part of my post talking about Rei Ayanami, Shana, and Char Aznable Clones? Yes what I posted is a meme, but that doesn't change the fact that copying other people's art is something that happens in mainstream Anime and Manga quite often.

Also, I am not defending the person, I am defending the Art.

Again, you're horribly confused. Those are tropes, not obvious line tracings from another artist's hard work. There's a difference between stealing someone's art and saying it's yours, and emulating a character archetype.