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Tracing an existing image

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Tracing an existing image

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- For some reason the term tracing has a negative connotation. Why is this? For some it is considered a form of cheating, somehow avoiding the time required to learn how to sketch. I consider it to be just another tool available to the artist like a ruler or a French curve. In particular, artwork done under a deadline can benefit from tracing from sourced material. In the malleable digital realm, tracing can be utilized to quickly communicate an idea. At its best, tracing is merely a framework upon which a more refined visual statement is created. Let's take a look at this. I'm working in Painter, and Painter does have something called tracing paper in it, but I'm going to do this generically because you might want to use a similar technique, say in Photo Shop, or in fact any layer-based application. What I'm going to do is above this image, and if we look into the Layers Pallette, just above that I'm going to create a new layer. I'm going to go ahead, and I'm going to fill it with…

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