Is redrawn art using base art by someone else is considered art theft?

[TheLemmaLlama]

It is considered art theft, or copyright infringement. But if she's honest about how she's doing the art (idk if that's what you meant by "the ppl commissioned her knows how she's doing the art"), then it's not plagiarism. Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work and passing them off as one's own; it's an act of intellectual dishonesty, not merely "doing stuff with material you don't have the 'rights' to" :]

(Conversely, e.g. taking the Mona Lisa and claiming to have drawn it yourself is an act of plagiarism, but it's not copyright infringement since it's in the public domain, so you're not infringing on anyone's copyright by doing that :P)

[moontokkym]

Yeah the premice of "using art as a base" in itself is a sliding scale of morality from totally ok to WTF are you doing.

On the "totally ok end": tracing your own art for practice, tracing someone else's style to work out how to incorporate elements into your own (not the whole thing) for practice, tracing pose photos you took/are free to use/you payed the licence for, tracing someone else's art for practice and giving explicit credit to them every time you post it anywhere (and that artist is fine with it).

Iffy: tracing your own commissionned work to make another comissionned work (without specifying it's a YCH type-deal/clearing it with both commissionners first and ajusting prices accordingly), tracing stuff people have explicitly said not to trace but it stays only as practice and you never post it.

Very iffy: tracing someone else's art for commissions and specifying it's traced

Illegal: tracing someone else's art for commissions without specifying it's traced beforehand/lying saying it's not traces at all (false advertising, a commission is generally understood to be a unique original piece of art made to the commissionners specifications, tracing takes out the original part)

Here it's very much more on the very iffy side of things and the commissionners at least should be made aware.

[moontokkym]

Could it be that you might also have a form of dyspraxia?

I know dyspraxia, dyscalculia and dyslexia as well as ADHD and Autism are often comorbidities of eachother (if you have one you're more likely to also have the others in some shape or form) but if it's mild enough they'll often put the ones you're less affected by as symptoms of the more noticeable ones because going though a seperate formal diagnosis can be a long expensive road.

[NickRowler]

I typed dyspraxia and it auto corrected to dyslexia…. I edited the post.

I was never diagnosed as a child but I did have adapted preschool that included some physical therapy. I also got adapted PE during elementary school. I usually did the activities with the other kids but if I did horribly, I won’t be marked down. I never fully learned how to ride a bike despite the social pressure.

[moontokkym]

Ah sorry I misunderstood TwT thanks for the clarification!

I'm glad you had support from an early age and they adapted the program to your needs! I hope it made things a bit easier (despite people really wanting you to ride a bien for some reason? Like bikes are cool but it's not a social requirement to ride one, I know a couple of people who can't anymore just because they forgot how.)

[NickRowler]

(Sorry that this thread has gone off topic)

I only really got assistance for when I was a little kid. I think they assumed I out grew it. I am able to function without assistance but there are small things I struggle with.