Ben's Stuff. Exhibit. Art show.

[Valiere]

Owned.

[Fisherson]

Yopu have to becaful accusing others of copying peppole's work on the internet, especialy art work, since they could have an account on another site you know nothing about.

[Ben]

lol. yeah, he was totally trying to expose me as a tracer. I had to read it a few times even....I thought "But Uberpwn didnt seem like a douchebag...I must be reading it wrong"....hahaha. Ah ****,
If you want to see more of my non pixel stuff, check out username MacThurston on deviant art. NOthing special on there. Just some misc digital stuff....but feel free to accuse me of tracing some more. I got a good laugh of that

[Fisherson]

lol. yeah, he was totally trying to expose me as a tracer. I had to read it a few times even....I thought "But Uberpwn didnt seem like a douchebag...I must be reading it wrong"....hahaha. Ah ****,
If you want to see more of my non pixel stuff, check out username MacThurston on deviant art. NOthing special on there. Just some misc digital stuff....but feel free to accuse me of tracing some more. I got a good laugh of that

I think I will, I somtimes visit Deviant Art because I love the unque art as well as the anime art work.

[Valiere]

There's a lot of plagiarism out there, but you gotta do your homework before you go accusing. Like, one time, this girl showed me this spectacularly-drawn and colored anime picture and said she made it when she was 12. I knew this was BS, because I had seen her pencil drawings before, and at age 20 she was nowhere near that kind of professional level at skill...she was a notch above amateur at best. So I did some sleuthing and found the exact same picture on another site, which was actually an image from one of those Japanese visual novels, made in 2007. I called her out on it, and after producing some lame excuses, she gave up.

She actually lied about a ton of stuff...like, she said she could play 10 instruments, was a model (lol), put her cousin through college, and other crap. But yeah, I'm rambling.

[Ben]

I have partaken in many facbook-graffiti-application contests, and that crap is like a giant war of people that cant draw that desperatly scour google images trying to find photo references that people used and trying to get other people disqualified.

I think kids like to trace to get a feel for professional linework. nothing wrong with that. Its just that some people are too insecure about it to state the reference or base they used.

I wont lie, Ive used photo refs to get anatomy right on a couple of occasions. I havent traced since a kid though.

With the exception of tattooing. That whole job is tracing. Except that i am tracing lines of artwork ive already designed myself.


But Yeah, Uberpwn, you just lost any respect I had for you. You called me out on copying a picture that i drew from scratch when i was bored.
You called me out on making a GOOD COPY of a ROUGH DRAFT in my gallery. Not to mention the origional was already posted IN THIS VERY THREAD. go **** yourself man.

[Valiere]

I wont lie, Ive used photo refs to get anatomy right on a couple of occasions. I havent traced since a kid though.

Everyone uses photo references to get anatomy right.

Unless you're going off of an actual model.

[Ben]

i should also mention that one a couple of occasions I have also attempted to dircetly (without tracing) copy a photo. But thats more as a test of skill. I sometimes like to try and emulate photo quality in a digital painting. Without tracing of course. Its a good excercise.

[HobomasterXXX]

I think I will, I somtimes visit Deviant Art because I love the unque art as well as the anime art work.

YOu can post pixel art there too y'know. You  should make an account.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

I actually wasn't accusing you of anything, dude. I was just asking if you used it as a base. xD

[Fisherson]

YOu can post pixel art there too y'know. You  should make an account.

Realy? You think my stuff is that good? Hmm maybe I should join.

I actually wasn't accusing you of anything, dude. I was just asking if you used it as a base. xD

Amazing how things spiral out of control when a post is misinterpreted.

[Ben]

but  you did sort of imply it man. With the whole

Well, I was looking around on Google images...
Guessing you used this as a base?
Tongue Smiley


Im not worried about it though. I dont plan on making a big deal about it. god knows its not the first time somebody did something of that nature. But, Im not naieve....and i can pick up on connotations
It wasnt used as a base, it was used as a rough draft.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Well, I wasn't trying to imply it. Sorry. Before I even made the post, I followed the picture's URL path down to your DevArt account. So I knew it was yours.

Although I do admit, when I first saw it, the thought did occur to me. >.>

[Ben]

meh. water under the bridge.

[HobomasterXXX]

Realy? You think my stuff is that good? Hmm maybe I should join.

Well, theres people who fill their whole gallery with art of this quality:

So i think you'll do fine