Listen everyone, This is an OPINION based article of how i feel of the following & why drawing is better. You don't have to agree with me, but this is exactly what i think is wrong, and what i think is right.
Using Bases
Your taking the lineart of someone's character, or official character.
they use the same base for their other millions of characters
what if they use a base & it looks like a recolor?
this is what i suggest.
Do NOT use bases that are traced from screencaps or other art from the official sonic art, because traced bases ARE recolors.
if you absolutly want to use a base, then i would suggest the bases to where the pose doesn't have the same pose as from original sonic art, they have their own style. but if you can't draw well, then you can either use it as long as you give credit with a link to the original base, or start practice drawing.
Recoloring
We original sonic artist's can all agree the majority of recolors are crappy & very obvious.
you take sonic & change the colors of his muzzle, fur, eyes, and give him a name, for example: neon the hedgehog.
and then someone who doesn't recolor *like me* comes along and says "that looks like sonic, except his fur is red"
WHAT??
you go to look at their pictures, to find billions of recolors.
NOT art.
You did NOT draw them.
My suggestion:
Do NOT recolor! recoloring sonic characters: ILLEGAL!! recoloring fancharacters: ILLEGAL! So quit your damn recoloring & learn to draw!
Printing & copying
You look over someone next to you
people are crowded & amazed at what they "drew"
but then you notice there is a printed/character hidden behind the page
"did you draw that?" someone says
"yes" they say
my suggestion:
YOU SHOULD NEVER TRACE! IT'S SO DAMN UNORIGINAL, AND LEARN TO DRAW, GODDAMNIT.
You want to backhand them
Ok, you printed a picture, grabbed a blank piece of paper, set it next to the printed one & begin to draw art that IS NOT yours.
No one else sees how wrong that is but you.
everyone else thinks they "drew" it, but they obviously didn't.
Once again, Unoriginal & wrong.
my suggestion:
Once again, STOP tracing & LEARN to draw YOUR own.
This is exactly what art is not. real art is when you draw it on your own, using none of the above listed up above, your character does not look like any of the sonic characters. you do your own.
That is original art.
Now, STOP tracing, recoloring, using bases traced from other screencaps, or any of that, and draw your own.
Using Bases
Your taking the lineart of someone's character, or official character.
they use the same base for their other millions of characters
what if they use a base & it looks like a recolor?
this is what i suggest.
Do NOT use bases that are traced from screencaps or other art from the official sonic art, because traced bases ARE recolors.
if you absolutly want to use a base, then i would suggest the bases to where the pose doesn't have the same pose as from original sonic art, they have their own style. but if you can't draw well, then you can either use it as long as you give credit with a link to the original base, or start practice drawing.
Recoloring
We original sonic artist's can all agree the majority of recolors are crappy & very obvious.
you take sonic & change the colors of his muzzle, fur, eyes, and give him a name, for example: neon the hedgehog.
and then someone who doesn't recolor *like me* comes along and says "that looks like sonic, except his fur is red"
WHAT??
you go to look at their pictures, to find billions of recolors.
NOT art.
You did NOT draw them.
My suggestion:
Do NOT recolor! recoloring sonic characters: ILLEGAL!! recoloring fancharacters: ILLEGAL! So quit your damn recoloring & learn to draw!
Printing & copying
You look over someone next to you
people are crowded & amazed at what they "drew"
but then you notice there is a printed/character hidden behind the page
"did you draw that?" someone says
"yes" they say
my suggestion:
YOU SHOULD NEVER TRACE! IT'S SO DAMN UNORIGINAL, AND LEARN TO DRAW, GODDAMNIT.
You want to backhand them
Ok, you printed a picture, grabbed a blank piece of paper, set it next to the printed one & begin to draw art that IS NOT yours.
No one else sees how wrong that is but you.
everyone else thinks they "drew" it, but they obviously didn't.
Once again, Unoriginal & wrong.
my suggestion:
Once again, STOP tracing & LEARN to draw YOUR own.
This is exactly what art is not. real art is when you draw it on your own, using none of the above listed up above, your character does not look like any of the sonic characters. you do your own.
That is original art.
Now, STOP tracing, recoloring, using bases traced from other screencaps, or any of that, and draw your own.
I noticed alot of people are getting really annoyed with the "What would you do if..." questions. I have something to say... I STARTED THEM! Shame on me:( Okay, so here's how it happened. First I saw the three or four "What would you do if...." questions about Shock the Dog. I decided to make one. (What would you do if you saw Zim on the street coughing up blood with tire marks on him?). Then I made another one. Then everyone else started making them! So, apoligiez to all of you, especially Meph, (She seems most bothered) and also especially ShadowFan (You could say I copied his ideas.) So, feel free to go off on me in the coments. SAWRY!
-ripperoo1
-ripperoo1