Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1738746-20180702064433/@comment-94.254.135.19-20180706092521

Hope you at least have an actual proof for that to say so, not the 'because the sprite lines up with some photo/drawing the artist could potentially even not be aware of' (the more generic pose the more chances sth like this already existed out there) but also based on the artist's skill of the time (referencing of all sorts, mere following of anatomy charts included, though, always poduces better results than from imagination because one can see what to do instead of guess, that has to be taken into consideration as well) and on seing the sketch having suspiciously wavy lines; or saw the drawing process or heard/witnessed from the given artist themselves.

Hearing that, though, I guess cervine was treated differently just because of the spriters'/'s past then or because of personal reasons against the spriter/s... because I assume you have shown that other sprite's supposed tracing base to TJ when reporting/discussing. Perhaps, in fact, he does believe in skill and assumes skill unless someone was previously proven to have traced anytime in the past (which, as I said later, could be no longer the case with cervine, people aren't doomed to stay with their youth/begginer mistakes forever. And the sprite's overall quality, shading and detail included, to my memory, all convince me it was possibly NOT traced, but somehow referenced instead. Pity the aritst/s never fought to proove themselves, though I can't blame them, hardly anyone would know how to react when suddenly accused of sth like that, because no matter what you say, people would rather assume you can't draw than believe you no matter how honest you are, ofc unless you admit or think abotu and post full drawing process record - which vast majority of people never have at hand as not everyone just osme people record and likely not every single work of theirs). It's not an easy subject. It's easy to accuse someone, but not to actually proove either guilt or innocence.

Wondering which on-site sprite you mean though.