The art of tracing by Superhero
Most of you do probably recognize this painting. The original is called Girl with a Pearl Earring. It is one of the Dutch golden ages most famous art work. The artist is Johannes Vermeer - perhaps the worlds finest tracer.
Tracing goes back several hundreds of years and is still used today by proffesional artists. What we need to remind ourselfs of is the difference between tracing and plagiarism.
Of course Ive traced the painting. How would you otherwise go about Vermeer? :)
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14 Aug, 2013, 10:29 pm
I didn't know Vermeer traced his works. I have no objection to traced art on colors, as long as the painting looks like a decent amount of effort has been put into the shading. Nice work :)
14 Aug, 2013, 10:38 pm
can you do another painting of this and remove the white tracer thing because this is a really good job you did traced or not heh heh
14 Aug, 2013, 10:39 pm
-nods- I do believe you learnsomething from tracing. There used to be shorts on Nick and they showed you how to draw Danny Phantom and that's where I started drawing. XD I still got a bit of the style.
14 Aug, 2013, 10:44 pm
M.collins, I cannot say for sure that he did trace this painting in particular but it is a fact that he used the camera obscura ( think of it as the first camera/projector). Its a shame to call him a tracer since what he did then was revolutionary. But I thought it might put some perspective on the trace debate.
14 Aug, 2013, 10:46 pm
Stinky Potato, sure I will! I can just delete the layer and post that version. :)
14 Aug, 2013, 10:52 pm
ok thanks bruh
15 Aug, 2013, 12:32 am
i dont think tracing is plagerism(however u spell it) this is good art work
15 Aug, 2013, 3:57 am
in my opinion, tracing an art piece and NOT selling, placement in a portfolio or saying that the concept is yours will prevent you from plagirism. drawing this and using it as a study is fine. just dont say you are the original creator of it, which in credits you do have a disclaimer. great job
15 Aug, 2013, 7:05 am
Woah. Impressive. I cant trace for shiz. XD
15 Aug, 2013, 11:54 pm
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16 Aug, 2013, 4:04 am
It's good to see more people make statements like this. I've actually been away from Colors for a while. Has the tracing bashing lessened, or has it gotten worse?
16 Aug, 2013, 12:12 pm
I'm fine with tracing on a general not but when people start trying to pass it off as their own that's when it not ok.
17 Aug, 2013, 3:29 pm
I've seen a lot of traced works on here that are very well done but my problem is that nobody sources the original artist which I find incredibly disrespectful. That's pretty much my only beef with tracing.
And with the above comments, you did a very good job with this painting! :D I instantly recognized it.
29 Aug, 2013, 8:24 pm
I find tracing fine as long as they admit it. I've traced myself, but I'm not very good
19 Sep, 2013, 3:19 am
i'm also great at tracing, come visit my gallery and see some of my traced masterpeices, one of my most famouse is my velociraptor, it was pretty much the first very detailed thing without color i traced. :)
22 Sep, 2013, 8:10 am
yeah, but this trace is good
10 Aug, 2014, 12:39 am
WHHHYYYYYY?!!!
19 Aug, 2014, 7:47 pm
#tracingproud
06 Oct, 2022, 12:44 pm
I do NOT like the idea of tracing, but how do you trace on here?