Tracing
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
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Tracing: (present tense verb) In the act of copying another piece of artwork, typically done by those in the third grade, and the ones we look to for lulz.
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
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 and an Invader Zim Slashfic 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.
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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 the 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.
Even if you don't trace the image, and instead like a faggot look at the image and attempt to draw it exactly the same way, that's still tracing you pathetic faggot, Some good examples of this whoring orgasm of pleasure is Bridget Craig, a bitch-fucked unoriginal lolcow on Deviantart which draws her mono-boobed marysues which want to fuck Naruto characters with bodies that lack anatomy and is full of fail and aids, she has deleted her account but will debute.
Trace is legal now!
Thanks to the closet dyke and our most hardworking admin evar Chix0r, the tracing is now AWWWWWRIGHT by the devianTART Policy as seen here [1]. This shitty article started the rage of the Over 9000 devianTARDs, while at least 400 tracing faggots rejoiced for being safe from banhammer if they put the reason why they made shitty tracings of the already shit art. DeviantART now expects an avalanch of traced shits, vectors, plagiarism and art theft.
Drama & denial:
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Todd Vs Dave
A drama lolcano erupted last Thursday when long time art-theft Todd Goldman decided to trace one of Dave Kelly's furry ideas [2]. 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
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