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Animated!

Professional animators do it too!

Because Felicia just wasn't furry enough.

remember kids even you can get a job as a tracer

Tracing 101.

So you're in high school, and you've already decided that you're going to be a famous manga-ka when you grow up. But how to start out? The world of art can be a big and terrifying place. Fortunately, you recently found out about a wonderful site called DevianTART that hosts online galleries for amateur artists from some of your fellow artist-aspirants. Even more pretty, tracing in the fanart section is even legalized. As read here

Superdemon-Inuyasha is a master at ~~tracing~~ CARBONING

This is where tracing gets you.

The only problem is that you're too damn untalented to spend the time and effort to learn how to draw. I mean, you have Neopets to take care of, hugs to give out, a Gaia avatar to dress up, a LiveJournal to maintain, a Sonic fanfic in the works, and a pile of yaoi manga to read. Not only that, but you must also attend to an ever-increasing buildup of messages from talent agents and admirers parading through your dA inbox. These days, nobody has time to draw when they could be busy wasting it on petty, social networking-related gossip.

With such a busy schedule, how can you possibly find the time to make up for your blatant lack of skills? The answer is simple: You trace existing artwork.

[edit] Guide

[edit] Advanced Tracing Techniques

Not specific enough? Learn to trace like the professionals. Photoshop tutorials available here and here.

[edit] Poser Class Tracing

Recently a technique has been developed by Onideus Mad Hatter in order to create fully realistic, 100% perfect anatomy, completely original tracing forms with perfect lighting and shading which requires *ZERO* effort on the part of the artist. This technique utilizes the program Poser, which includes a variety of fully posable human forms, props, clothing, hair styles, lights, etc. All one has to do is import a model matching their characters size, make any needed adjustments and then pose the character using an extremely simplistic point and click style interface. Once the pose is complete there are a whole variety of export rendering options that were seemingly *DESIGNED* for the art of tracing. But that's not all! To make it even *EASIER* for would be artists Poser actually comes bundled with a whole variety of preconfigured poses that can be applied directly to any Poser model without even having to think! Not just poses either, but lighting setups and prop setups as well. With the advent of Poser the world of art as we know it is truly dead.

[edit] Tracing causes drama

One of the numerous things that causes TARTlets to become massively butthurt and proceed to cut themselves is the idea of stealing artwork. They will preach the depravity of art theft like gay Republicans who insist they are straight. Like all teenagers, they will VIOLENTLY DENY tracing if they are caught/accused of it, despite mounting piles of evidence or public outcry from their fellow TARTlets. Another fun outcry for them is "I used teh grids!". Grids are for fags. End of story.

Also lot of the tracers who happen to be highly watched in DA are supported by ignorant fans who will believe anything or refuse anything that's against their artist despite the evidence is right in front of their big stupid faces.

[edit] Drama & denial:

Taki in original and by Trumi. When told he traced, he attempted to stalk the shit out of me.	Liek I did this wifout a refrence lol	What a shame. Princessangel83 forgot the importance of Step 3.	It is delicious hypocrisy, you must eat it
"I'm the one trying to inflate my e-importance, but YOU'RE the one who needs a life! Ha!"	Eyeballing?	Never traced. Nope.	Trying to prove to us that she does not trace. LOL WUT?
Tracers steal software that they use to trace artwork. Thieves have no shame	Butthurt	A comic on how tracers defend themselves	TARTlet SunaNiGHTS most definitely does not rip off fellow TARTlet Astrima.
He drewed well lol	"O, that way madness lies;" - King Lear, Shakespeare	"This who argument is just making me sick!!!" - Cascade Gonpory	Tracing makes lulz
DA policy on tracing	DA's real policy on tracing...It's AWWRRIIGGHHTT!	Yeah. Tpirman1982 doesn't trace. Right.	Flareyphoenix-ghost denies evidence of tracing and bashes those who accuses her.
Award much?

DevianTART moderators claim that they are taking measures to ban people for tracing, but this seldom happens since they are aware that if they really ban everyone who traces (in other words, 90% of DA), then their sacred cash-cow will run dry. In other words, to keep your art safe from being baleeted, buy a subscription from DA, and the mods will elevate you above the status of the common, non-paying DA user and ignore any and all TOS violation reports pertaining to your art.

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When tracers aren't the source of drama the artists are with their extremely clever, well drawn tutorials/comics on how enraged and butthurt they are when people trace their godlike, professional artwork. If that doesn't work, they send hoards of fans to harass and spam the shit out of the tracer's page.

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Tracer's homeland.

TL;DR

Consider yourself warned.

[edit] Todd Vs Dave

Busted!

A drama lolcano erupted last Thursday when long time art-theft Todd Goldman decided to trace one of Dave Kelly's furry ideas [1]. The outraged goons at SomethingAwful spread the story to the internets, but many of the blogs that reported it had the reports taken down due to a lolsuit:

For full story see: Todd Goldman

[edit] Gallery of traces:

Gallery of trace supporters

Not even musicians are safe.

Nice use of Step 5.

COPYCAT

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Separated at birth?	Not Tails	With overlay	Tracing isn't as effective when your source material is crap
Also DOING IT WRONG	omg bishis	Now with color!	Yaoi source turns into...
Mpreg trace! Another devout follower of the 6 Steps.	Why, who would've thought that a disgusting new color scheme would make the perfect disguise? This is truly the work of a masterful tracer!	Tracing is a perfectly acceptable activity...	...if you're popular
Furfags are no exception.	Image macro	Bean likes coloring over other people's artwork and claiming it as her own.	Tracing shota? How low can you go?
More proof that tracers are pedophiles	Even sonic furry porn gets ripped off	Wiltora The laziest tracer ever	He makes other tracers look talented.
kirby1991 is also another lazy tracer	A rare example of nonbishe	OVC(Original Villian Character)	lucentshade thinks cat ears automatically make it impossible to detect tracing.
Video game companies trace, too.	Miss-fetus-cock-slap, a rare mix of tracer/recolourer and camwhore. Awesome name, though.	Traced Strype artwork.	MaruMariMaru traces.
DKSTUDIOS05 is a subscribed TARTlet, so DA doesn't care that she traces her commissions.	DKSTUDIOS05 thinks copying your own commissioned work is awwwwright!	So talented...	An pedo traces shota.
Butthurt fansheep tried to claim the source was a shoop.	bekstorm traces, but DA says her craptacular submissions are 'fan art' and therefore safe from the banhammer. (She also does nudes!)	Arukado	Kaitokat
AmayaKouryuu	A traced gift art for another tracer	As she claimed not traced!!By I-heart-hikaru	Mmm tracing. Reika-Hoshikami
Even Nintendo art can be victimized. By LeeRoberts	FullmetalWing, the tracing Mary Sue.	chareD shows how she got those scars.	chipthechipmonk (aka flareyphoenix-ghost) has created the most original and best character for that new transformers animated show.
Pokemon cards are awwwwright. By Lex the Pikachu	Pumita on DevianTART	According to TARTlet "Zhenifera," tracing pictures of fetish models is a-okay!

[edit] Videos

Tracing is fine; not the best thing ever, but fine. But the important this is that they also give credit, or say that the pic wasn't theirs in the first place!