This is the sort of thing I was trained to look for when I graded standardized tests for a living. I didn't grade Texas, though - the grading center doesn't grade tests from the same state its in - and I never found anything like that.
This has nothing to do with the topic, but in your (semi, in a way) professional opinion, is this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/_orugooru/2229.html#cutid1) person stealing art? 'Cuz compared to most of the stuff that journal the two pencil sctetches look sort of...anyway I'm probably just being paranoid.
Scary story. I can imagine that sort of thing happening, but I didn't imagine it was so widespread.
Probably not, since there's enough similarities in the facial features - the proportions of the face - to the rest of their stuff. They may be using heavy reference, though, which is causing their art to look different from sketch to sketch - I know it affects me that way when I'm looking really hard at something while I'm drawing. Or it could be the person deliberately trying a little bit different style. They're (ah, hell, let's say 'she' even though I don't know; this cheap version of genderless typing is making me see plural) She's probably at the point in drawing where things are really differing in quality and some are coming out really good and some aren't, so it's strangely inconsistent, but I think there's enough similarities in style (nose and mouth are consistently in the bottom third of the face, and the nose lines are pretty much the same in them) throughout the pics on the first entries on her journal that they're all done by the same person. I could be wrong, but hey.
A few days ago I came across someone who replied to a post of mine on Journalfen who had a DeviantArt account, and ... there were some interesting inconsistencies between her portraits of the Harry Potter actors and her original characters, enough that I think she may ahve been doing a Crystalwank-type thing and pencilling over a printout of the pic but ... I couldn't quite tell if so and I didn't want to raise a stink if I was completely off base, because it's entirely possible that she's just much better when she's using direct photo ref. And she said that she scanned in the sketch, compared it to the photo, and adujusted lines to match, so it just might be that doing it. *sigh* I'd like to see more of the *artist* themselves in pictures like that instead of strict photorealism, if they're not using photos they took themself, but oh well.
Wow, I've never heard about that, or even thought about using an essay portion of a test for anything but what it requires (even if I might want to write something snarky). Learn something new every day, I suppose.
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Scary story. I can imagine that sort of thing happening, but I didn't imagine it was so widespread.
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A few days ago I came across someone who replied to a post of mine on Journalfen who had a DeviantArt account, and ... there were some interesting inconsistencies between her portraits of the Harry Potter actors and her original characters, enough that I think she may ahve been doing a Crystalwank-type thing and pencilling over a printout of the pic but ... I couldn't quite tell if so and I didn't want to raise a stink if I was completely off base, because it's entirely possible that she's just much better when she's using direct photo ref. And she said that she scanned in the sketch, compared it to the photo, and adujusted lines to match, so it just might be that doing it. *sigh* I'd like to see more of the *artist* themselves in pictures like that instead of strict photorealism, if they're not using photos they took themself, but oh well.
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