I title it that way because I have a genuine question (that I know the answer to) but still wanna gauge what people think: how ethical is tracing AI images?


I bring this up because these two images are traced (somewhat) from AI images, now if you were to layer them on top of one another then you'd see they aren't one to one but they're modelled after them, I drew a rough layout on top of the images then drew on top of that. How does the art community feel about that? I know the art bros would be like "uh, don't trace and git gud???"

Creativity is low right now so I figured I would do something outside the wheelhouse.

edit: I forgot her tattoo and ring, fixed.

references:
https://www.deviantart.com/fatartai.....ors-1037232634
https://www.deviantart.com/fatartai.....002-1019660231