#art So my questions are:
1) Is this lesser art? Is drawing from reference more skill than art? More craft than art?
2) Tumblr HATES people like me. They accuse me of tracing or copying. (I never trace. It's all copied manually.) They say I'm stealing from others who actually created real art. Thoughts? (I'm not making money, not selling any. My art just existing is an insult/crime.) Thoughts?
2) Haters gonna hate. If you want to learn to draw, you have to pass through the stage in which you copy from reality or other sources. If people give you a hard time for that, just disregard them and focus on what you can do and what you like – especially since you're not making money off it.
The important thing is not to disregard constructive criticism and use it to become a good judge of your own work.
@miramarco Absolutely agree on conceit. I don't shy away from it.
And good advice to hear on the haters. When they rant about copying, I think back on the great masters who spent decades "just" copying others in training, and I wonder why the copy hate. It's hella good practice.