Okay, this is a long ass read but i just want to address something even if I'm not accused..(yet) but i just want to be clear on something. First and foremost. I would like to heavily apologize to every person who drew YCH stuff or even your own art and I freaking traced em even if it need to be paid because of commissions (of course I was broke back then but that's not an excuse for me to fucking trace in the first place). I have old art that I've made back when I was 18 (and even in my teen years), it's all traced sadly but I mean the poses and not other shit (okay maybe mouths and eyes). I have been struggling to even make art back then because of my school and stuff that I forgot I have social media for them but never uploaded anything, half my stuff is NSFW (but when I was 18 so last year). I wanted to say this to get it off my damn chest and y'all didn't ask but here it is.
(Art's on the bottom)
I'm currently still learning to draw but in my own style but even with that i'm still kinda falling back on tracing, I know it's wrong but at least i'm still improving little but little like I have improved drawing hair and some facials (eyes and mouth ofc). The traced part is obviously from Pinterest and a YCH website for NSFW...yeah I know it's stealing but hey nowadays I have bought those posing stamps on Etsy even body part stamps for it too. Doesn't clear the fact i've traced on other people's stuff and I do want to be deeply sorry for doing such shit.
Everyone had their own drawing experiences growing up along with tracing but practice is always a way to go even when I did, I didn't trace when I was like...10 or something? And that all went to the trash by my parents (why? Bc it was FNAF) and it was all in a makeshift notebook I made, so I moved to digital at 13 and that's where the tracing began, made my first art that wasn't even traced at all (its missing so please don't ask because it was in an old device and I still didn't know how to use ibis paint x back then, but it looked like a weird pokemon but yeah)ย still, I started to trace from there EVEN ON PAPER (old tab under paper trick) and yes I was told by my friends that's not the way to go if I want to start to draw right, yeah I know but it became a habit but now i'm looking back at my shit and said "shit, I feel like a faker" so I start to just...buy etsy stamps and went from there, even if i'm still needing to improve on anatomy and shit and I found a YouTuber who talks about the anatomy and stuff like that (Fungzau is the youtuber) and yeah, did her methods and from others too....still practicing even if its hard but i'm hanging on, so i just use the Etsy stuff for now and still continue to practice finding my own style of art.
Again it's a long ass read but I just want to get this off my chest because just seeing others have their own drawing signature and here I am, tracing bodies and mouths for my own use and that's just wrong so I want to continue to practice my own style and ACTUALLY put effort in it. Doing everything I can to learn even if school is shit (yes, a damn 19 year old in high school who's gonna be held back for the first time to finish and graduate for a few months) at least nobody knows about my socials so we're good. I don't want to come out sounding like a dick or something, sorry if I did!..
Anyways enough yapping, here's the art that's traced and from etsy stamps I BOUGHT... Oh and one from CSP 3D model thing.
Traced bodies but not the hair but yes to some of the eye
CSP + bought off Etsy on the bottom
NSFW ONE'S ARE ON MY PATREON, HALF ON X/BLUESKY. DNI MINORS!
oh, thought i should mention that i am most likely not going to be doing any mechtober! i am extremely busy with school and am much more focused on specific stories i want to write for the mechs (also, none of the prompts called to me), just so we're clear!
