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(02-21-2012 07:10 AM)Koopaul Wrote:  I still think tracing and editing sprites can be a helpful learning tool despite what Meta and many others think.

That's how I started spriting and I think I'm better for it. In fact that's how I started as an artist.

When I was a toddler I used to have tracing paper and traced things. I also had coloring books and colored things.
These things are similar to tracing and editing. You can't call it your own work but it eases you into the art world.

Not everyone learns things the same way. That's very important to know when teaching. You must apply all methods of teaching, don't always force one way on someone.
You got to think of new members as little children, not an inexperienced you.

I'm pretty sure that editing isn't really the issue

the issue is posting them. There's no reason to. There's nothing to say about edits or copies that would be worth spending the time on. If you're going to go out of your way to get C+C, you should make it productive. If you want to edit for practice then fine, but you don't have to post everything you make as practice. I copy other artists' drawings to get an understanding of how the do things, but what purpose would it serve to post them? What could anyone possibly say? Nudge a few angles and proportions here and there? That's not really learning. C+C comes in the form of words, so it should be able to address big foundational issues inherent in trying to make something that's completely custom, not try to describe how to move a pixel or two.

I'm not sure why this still isn't clear considering how many times it's been discussed