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   Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:16:29 JST Rabbit Cohen

   As long as you're not straight up plagiarising someone else's art, there is no cheating in art. You can take photographs and trace them. You can use a grid. If you're working digitally, you can colour pick from your reference if you want. It's fine.

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     Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:16:29 JST Rabbit Cohen

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     You don't have to tell anyone what your artistic process is, either, even if they pay for your art.

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     Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:16:29 JST Rabbit Cohen

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     There's evidence that artists have been projecting images to trace them for thousands of years. The earliest written description of the camera obscura, an early projection device, dates back to about 500 BCE. Leonardo Da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer both likely used projection as a drawing aid.

     Rich Felker and alcinnz repeated this.
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     Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 13:16:29 JST Rabbit Cohen

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     Art is not a sport. The point is not to be impressive at something difficult. It's expression, it's a way to focus on yourself, it's a way to get feelings out, it's a way to get ideas across. There is no cheating.