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This is about :iconkanahyde: . I would have avoided it but she blocked me, hid my comment and tried to turn everything as she wanted, so I want to make something clear...

What I asked her is not why she COPIES things, but why does she TRACE 'em, and acts as if she actually drew the piece by herself.
Tracing is that thing you do when you work OVER pictures, not COPYING pictures, and it's something she quite obviously does. She also has the guts to sell things she traced, and publish tutorials, wich I don't know if is more sad or fun.

So I just asked her why, in both english and italian, so I can be sure she doesn't misunderstand.
She quickly hid my comment, never replied, and forbid me to say anything else, criticizing me on her journal like a drama queen... Guilty anyone?

Some of her works are so evidently traced that if you search for 'em in google images you can find the original picture as "corresponding".
Some examples... in ITALIAN so she can't misunderstand xD :
img41.imageshack.us/img41/945/… - Oh, the tutorial on this was FUN.
img855.imageshack.us/img855/45…

It's such a shame Google could bust only a few of them, and it could accidentally happen for other works too.
Anyway whoever has a pair of eyes and a bit of time to spend on photoshop could check the edges actually match, wich is a lot more relevant...

Like this fav.me/d4oeklc , set with a 50% transparency over the original picture (a photo): img3.imageshack.us/img3/3756/w…
Or if it's not enough...

fav.me/d2e1fxp -> img14.imageshack.us/img14/931/… // fav.me/d2dzw70 -> img715.imageshack.us/img715/45… // fav.me/d2e6sd4 -> img576.imageshack.us/img576/20… // fav.me/d2ejq3c -> img812.imageshack.us/img812/94… // fav.me/d2eb0hd -> img256.imageshack.us/img256/90… // fav.me/d2e8bg1 -> img526.imageshack.us/img526/92… // fav.me/d291f4f -> img864.imageshack.us/img864/63… // fav.me/d4h1clm -> img846.imageshack.us/img846/94… // fav.me/d4lks88 -> img28.imageshack.us/img28/1327… // fav.me/d4c9w7y -> img69.imageshack.us/img69/7222… // fav.me/d49x6c1 -> img706.imageshack.us/img706/82… // fav.me/d4cl6wi -> img855.imageshack.us/img855/73… // fav.me/d4gqvnf -> img51.imageshack.us/img51/9388… // fav.me/d4ar4bl -> img4.imageshack.us/img4/5756/l… // fav.me/d4azmfx -> img820.imageshack.us/img820/24… // fav.me/d49mlxe -> img193.imageshack.us/img193/78… // fav.me/d3j5986 -> img513.imageshack.us/img513/22… // fav.me/d3fkp22 -> img717.imageshack.us/img717/90… // fav.me/d4is0tm -> img269.imageshack.us/img269/72… // fav.me/d4j3vtx -> img197.imageshack.us/img197/12… // fav.me/d4g0vcj -> img405.imageshack.us/img405/81… // fav.me/d42oovb -> img337.imageshack.us/img337/32… // fav.me/d3gmm59 -> img824.imageshack.us/img824/79… // fav.me/d3fy2xq -> img29.imageshack.us/img29/1354… // fav.me/d3cv568 -> img526.imageshack.us/img526/87… // fav.me/d35enpo -> img525.imageshack.us/img525/19… // fav.me/d39ojnt -> img31.imageshack.us/img31/386/… // fav.me/d3agdxs -> img195.imageshack.us/img195/51… // fav.me/d357f6s -> img171.imageshack.us/img171/14… // fav.me/d34iur9 -> img201.imageshack.us/img201/35… // fav.me/d34052i -> img580.imageshack.us/img580/73…

The edges of everything she does match SO PERFECTLY sometimes it's even hard to tell there is a photograph / snapshot under it.

I sincerely don't know how could anyone buy the supposed AMAZING SUDDEN IMPROVEMENT she did in realistic art pieces.
I personally believe trying to act as if she can DRAW this way is a huge insult to anyone who really tries at digital portraits. She just does paint-overs, and should AT LEAST specify it.
Seriously, does she think everyone is just a bunch of gullible idiots?

To try and PROVE she actually has some traditional art skills (A thing nobody asked her anyway), the girl made this... fav.me/d4p5b32 ...
Once again, whoever has a bit of skills in art would notice it's AT LEAST 50% digitally retouched, if not more.
And of course the "traditional" masterpiece she claims she SPEED PAINTED IN 15 MINUTES perfectly fits the original image once again ( s17.postimage.org/6lbsxb071/RO… ). Ladies and Gentlemen, we found the new Giotto.

About the "speedpaint" she made to prove I'm wrong: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLnXyz… , ever wondered why you can't see the screen well?
Well I've got an answer from you, clear *****since *the very first seconds* in the video*****: s13.postimage.org/66c5j9ew6/le… .
You can easely notice there where the coloring levels even BEFORE there was supposed to be anything to color.
So if this is what I saw according to the cheater trying to defend herself once again: i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx… ... how was it supposed to be there when she didn't even finish to *draw* the first eye? Second 0.01 of the video, play, stop and zoom yourself to check it.

I'm so tired of her discrediting me and other serious artists trying to sell her very incorrect version of the facts, and I don't care if she doesn't say my name when she does it. So this journal won't disappear despite people believing it's "childish". I must defend myself somehow.
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Kendra-Paige's avatar
The phrase "too good to be true" seems to hold its value. I stumbled onto this journal while returning a llama to you, and it's very disheartening to learn that an artist I admired the work of is an art thief. I was surprised to see such a consistent flow of deviations from her of apparent high quality, and this journal makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately all this has essentially done is exposed a failing in the art community as a whole - because there are many who would say that despite the fact she traced her images, that she colored / painted / edited them, and now they are a piece of original artwork as a result of this. It's an issue I've dealt with on the forums I run when a graphic artist took someone else's art, slapped on text and a gradient overlay and pawned them off as her own work. When I brought this issue up to a graphics community, the opinions were all very mixed. Some felt it was okay to do it, and that it was now her own work because she changed it, and others felt that it wasn't enough to warrant her claims of it being her artwork.

tl;dr version: Yet another artist who has left at least one member of their audience disenchanted.