Comments on: Why Learn to Draw When You Can Trace?

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:36:04 +0000

May I ask which year is this article published?

By: Annonymous

Annonymous — Tue, 24 May 2022 03:33:27 +0000

While I do think tracing is good for learning purposes, I am disappointed to find many artists online resorting to plagiarizing works from other artists. Which may be a cause from wanting attention or wanting their artwork to be alike their favorite artist’s. This is an issue especially professionally. It has gotten companies legal issues, and artists in trouble and fired from their professional positions. It also really shows through on their other artworks, given whoever they were tracing from may have already had bad anatomy skills themselves, this artistic error does not teach good proportions and transfers over into their work.

By: DAB

DAB — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:43:05 +0000

DAB’s Law, (Determining an Artist Boundary), presently before the FTC, requests for computer aided paintings to be tagged as such for consumers protection and distinguishing the difference between illustrative art as opposed to a real painting as is adopted in federal case law. While the FTC cannot police traced mechanical non talent art, I have petitioned the thought that galleries should have a questionnaire concerning the methods of production in what they are selling. The ultimate goal of DAB’s Law is to have each State set up a panel with it’s Art Commission to have a (NT) Natural Talent – Non Traced tagging system and certificate of authenticity provided to those that proved themselves before the panel, which is on electronic file for viewers to view and confirm degree of talent. A singer can sing, a lip syncer can perform; they both may look and sound good, however, one is without the natural talent. A pianist can perform, and another can smile while the self playing piano operates. Night and day difference between an artist and an illustrator, however, everyone seems to refer themselves as an artist after they have place a brush to a canvas. Not a fan of tracing

By: Yasmin Noam

Yasmin Noam — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:21:04 +0000

I do both. I am practicing free hand drawing from observation almost every day I’m my sketchbook, I am progressing but I. Far far away from drawing accurate sketch for a final piece. So when I’m doing drawing for portfolio I’m tracing

By: Johnny Robertson

Johnny Robertson — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:27:44 +0000

I know a lot of professional artist that trace. I have taken drawing classes and I find it cumbersome and time-consuming.I really hate drawing. Keep in mind as a professional or is trying to sell your work the time that you put in your work Has to be displayed in the price. Tracing Is a More expedient and more efficient way of creating the image to be painted. And the observer of the artwork will never know if you painted traced it or actually drew it. However as a photographer I only use my own original images so in the photographic process I checked for values And shading. I rarely or never copy other work. I think if you were to maintain competitiveness and pricing you need to do what’s more efficient. Even if you trace a subject you still have to render in colors Values creating unity balance.

By: Evey

Evey — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:04:13 +0000

I never trace because I am experiencing great satisfaction with my final freehand observational or imagined drawing.
Also my drawing skills are improving with every new drawing taken and it makes possible for me to draw from imagination. As a professional artist I use several mediums and can attest that good drawing skill is necessary to execute any figurative realistic artwork. Artwork meaning creation which is not dead copy of reference image and has soul of the artist embedded in it.:)
It takes time to learn to observe and draw but rewards are immense. So I would recommend to every serious art aspirant to draw freehand and not trace.Tracing will not improve your skills.
And get some good pencils; it does make a difference 🙂

By: Belaid Younes Reda

Belaid Younes Reda — Wed, 27 May 2020 01:16:49 +0000

Well i never drew anything in my life but with this lockdown i decided why not but i have no talent for it so i did tracing well kinda because i was using a writing paper and my phone screen as a source of trace i did okay but then i décidée to follow a tutorial on YT from scratch it was the Venom picture from profil and the thing is that tracing helped understand shapes and how to hold a pencil and how to move my hand so i think i wont be using it no more but i am deffenetly gonna watch more tutorials and follow them because my first draw although it was pretty slow ans long it came way more than i expected so yeah tracing bas it’s value but don’t dépend on it

By: David Jamieson

David Jamieson — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:55:37 +0000

In reply to Rhonda Blender.

Rhonda, you’re in a situation that lots of students experience while learning to draw: seeing that your drawing isn’t right, but not knowing why, or how it got that way. Keep working. With practice (and some good instruction), you’ll begin to recognize mistakes you’ve made before and correct them… or even pre-empt them.

By: Rhonda Blender

Rhonda Blender — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:42:46 +0000

This is an awesome article! I’ve done watercolor in the past but recently have taken up drawing as I like it and also think it will improve my painting. I’ve never taken a drawing class so I’m trodding along doing the best I can. I have used some tracing paper a few times but you are so right regarding it resulting in a cartoon effect! However, yesterday I tried drawing an eye freehand but using a grid. It still didn’t look right! So I took a piece of tracing paper and did the eye over my original. OMG. I was totally off in my freehand but I can’t figure out why!!! I told myself to just keep at it but I wish I knew why I was so off!

By: David Jamieson

David Jamieson — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:42:35 +0000

In reply to Gihan Zohdy. I think we agree, Gihan. Tracing has its place in studio practice – just not as a shortcut around the difficult business of developing drawing skills.