@EMPORIOSMOM Don't follow that guy's tutorials. All of those are actually traced. They blatantly traced @GrandGuerrilla's art of Tooru. He uses some kind of editing trick to hide the fact that he's tracing.
For many years I kept seeing people saying "never use the airbrush tool" like it's objective art advice. Couldn't be more wrong and I've been using it in all my art.
@Alphons63@ElevenWrote So to put it short, he says it's referenced, then says it's stolen. Makes no sense, so even after reading some of his comments to the average person it could come off like he's the one who doesn't understand what using reference actually means.
@Alphons63@ElevenWrote But doesn't excuse the post caption from being extremely misleading. He's basically vagueposting. The title can interpreted as "reference was used but badly", when reference was not used and it's an image with a filter. Then his comments about theft seem contradictory to people.
@owaloid Even then it's not an objective rule. There are plenty of great high contrast realistic paintings that use pure black for shading, it's relatively common even.
@Maldefined the thing is this advice is sound for when you want to make realistic art which a lot of artists genuinely can't fathom why you wouldn't want to do