Draw your Character

[Shenandoah]

Whoa, calm down people. I think I am horribly confused as well. I said I've never traced anything and I still stand by what I said, because I've never digitally/physically just grab his picture and just started drawing over it. I've sketched all of them by myself, and I think it as my own art and that's that. I've never called them my style, but apparently there's more to it than just that.

Let me say though, back when I first started following Shunya Yamashita style, I looked at his stuff (from the Sweet Dreams artbook more than most admittedly) and try to draw from there. From specific angles, specific poses, but mostly expressions because I really like his style. I did tell you if you really look for it, you will find similarities. If that's count as traces, then I guess that's true. I just thought tracing means, like, just totally tracing/drawing over something, and I've never done that. I still sketched, cleaned, scanned and colored them all by myself. But I digress. I think I misunderstood a lot of things already.

In regards to commission, I have not made contact with any people whatsoever. I think they who requested commissions from me can attest to this fact that I haven't just come and hastily contacted them. I've never taken a commission in my life before and it's all still new to me. I said I'm willing to (because who doesn't want money, to be honest xD) but after reading the thread I think I have a better understanding on what's allowed and what's not. I made a genuine mistake and I'm grateful for people who defended me, but it seems that I am wrong. I'll happily admit it.

Also, I'm not trying to run away, because I still am going to complete all the requests either way. When I said I'm staying out, I was just going to post the requests then be a lurker in this thread because I don't want to derail the thread even more, but the discussion is apparently still going, and now it's in the danger of being off-topic-ish. Mostly though, I hate for other people's art to just be buried. I apologize for being the center of attention that derail the thread where it has become a request-spam fest, and sparked a discussion where people should have just posted their art of their characters. I really do. I just thought it's fun to draw other people's characters. Never meant any harm. Again, I'm sorry that it has come to pages of discussions and for being vague about things, I really am. It seems I still have tons to learn and understand about art, but I am actually kind of grateful that I've been educated by people on this thread and will proceed accordingly in the future.

[Demus]

I said I've never traced anything and I still stand by what I said, because I've never digitally/physically just grab his picture and just started drawing over it. I've sketched all of them by myself, and I think it as my own art and that's that.

Bullshit. Look at the bangs on her hair and tell me again that you sketched it yourself.