My friend and I have always been wondering about whether he traces or not. Some of the illustrations does look pretty stylized, while some photo-real (which I guess are the ones done with reference).
Personally I don't really have much problem with tracing as long as the artist puts in significant amount of his own style.
Makoto Shinkai, a Japanese artist, also uses references and paints over them directly. It's so good to the point that I go,"So what if he uses references?". His art book is called 新海誠美術作品集 空の記憶 ~ The sky of the longing for memories ~.
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My friend and I have always been wondering about whether he traces or not. Some of the illustrations does look pretty stylized, while some photo-real (which I guess are the ones done with reference).
Personally I don't really have much problem with tracing as long as the artist puts in significant amount of his own style.
Makoto Shinkai, a Japanese artist, also uses references and paints over them directly. It's so good to the point that I go,"So what if he uses references?". His art book is called 新海誠美術作品集 空の記憶 ~ The sky of the longing for memories ~.
And there's also the insanely detailed background paintings for Tekkon Kinkreet. I don't know if they are traced over and painted, but that doesn't stop me from going "Wow" either.