So the person whose been recoloring HydraCarina’s artwork that joined this week on dA has struck again. Exact match. Their excuse seems to be the old “It was in the movie so I traced it!!!” card. And this new one they traced was for someone’s contest. Boy I do hope they remove this entry.
Um… The user said that it was a base that she made herself for this. I don’t think it is as much a base as it is a complete trace over a screenshot from SP. That might just be me but, that isn’t art.
It just looks like they recolored it a-la MSPaint. While recoloring CAN be considered an art form, this is just super lazy base recoloring. I do quite like that their character there is natural colored however.
Considering they draw in the rest of their gallery you can clearly tell this has been recolored. They weren’t bad at babymipping the two Kiaras together though. But some lines are missing atop the Kiara’s head in the foreground.
I suppose you’d have to be delirious if you’re proud of your original character donut steel Shenzi recolor FC.
Last month I tried explaining to this person that recoloring screenshots in acid laced kool-aid vomit doesn’t constitute as a “style” and they go on telling me they didn’t trace it or recolor it and how it’s their work etc etc. That overlay certainly looks like they traced it. And what makes a style different and unique to the artist is how they draw that subject. For example, Disney has a very wide known style of drawing. It varies from film to film but the subtle differences are still there to where we recognize who drew it. The same goes for any artists who draws original art or fan art. There are different yet subtle changes that you recognize as their works even through traced or copied recreations. Recoloring Nala into some circus tent doesn’t count. It may have worked for the old masters but it’s not going to work for today’s lazy youth.
Never heard of anyone recoloring a plush like this before. I’ve seen people actually dye their lion king plushes and for it to turn out pretty good varying from person to person, but this is ridiculous.
