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Recently there was an incident on tumblr where someone had 'traced' another person's image to draw their own character. Now it's a huge deal and stuff so it got me thinking. How many of you people actually consider tracing to be art theft?

Personally in my opinion as an artist, I'd hate it if someone took credit for something I worked hard on. But I feel like if you're tracing to improve like your eyes or poses I think that's fine. So long as you ADMIT the art is not yours. AND you link to the original piece to the original artist. I see nothing wrong with referencing others work, but when you start posting them claiming that you did this on your own, then we have a problem.

So what do you guys think? IS tracing art theft to you? If so why? And are there limitations to what you consider art theft and not art theft? Or it's just plain unacceptable?