Is this cheating?

Is this cheating?

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Do people really care about tracing and whatever is in OPs pic??? If it looks good in my eyeballs I could not care less

no because it saves up time

any artist worth their salt can construct all that with perspective but it takes time.
using 3d models for the basic panel layout and positioning shaves off hours of work for each panel that has "complicated" backgrounds

No, author's just drawing things in perspective.

Not that different from using those wooden art dolls to draw a pose

No, they still had to arrange that scene, it's just another tool.

considering how they pump out pages en masse on weekly or even more on monthly releases, i can understand why they are doing it, if you draw daily a lot you just get fed up with it and you drop in quality and speed
on the other hand a lot of the shit they trace over is garbage and an offense to anyone that has any idea about perspective or scale
but yeah if i like the story, then whatever, trace all you want
if the story is garbage at least put in effort to drawing

Is a painter having a model pose for them cheating?

No since he's not really tracing the models. It's no different from using that Tsugumomo author posing for his work.

Also "cheating" shouldn't even be frowned upon unless it's flagrant flagrant plagiarism.

That doesn't even look traced. The knee angle, head position and arms are all significantly different, looks like the artist only used the general position of the 3D model as a reference.

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worst advice you could ever give

No. I may be biased on this because I'm a 3d modeler, but this is a helpful way to draw. You pose around a 3d mannequin and it gives you an idea of what the correct proportions to be. The hard part is getting the right lighting on the models so that you get the shadows where you want them to be.

No rules, only tools.

Nope, I would use it if I had the complicity. I would even create stylized puppets to model that matches my style in order to save time on perspective paneling.

its not cheating, its just being resourceful and clever at the same time

it's not like there are rules or a formula of any kind, if it looks good I don't give a shit

What program is this? Looks handy.

It's just clip studio with a screenshot from the Blender viewport on a lower layer. Characters look generated with MB-Lab with a few extra details sculpted in. I use this workflow all the time to draw pregnant lolis.

Featureless models for posing and paneling is not cheating nor is it tracing before anyone asks. Not everyone can benefit from a minds eye. Going by the image OP posted that character looks nothing like the model anyway. Merely used as a inspiration to draw from. All artists do that.

>no because it saves up time
So does cheating...

Oh, so for the models you still need a proper 3D program?

>I use this workflow all the time to draw pregnant lolis.

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>Blender

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Not him, but clip studio has 3d support and custom human models. But these functions do not work very well.

Blendr is great.

I see, thank you for the info.

They just shift the doll into 3D form.

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Clip studio has it's own 3D posing tools but the model flexibility and posting system is shit, not to mention there's no modelling for props or environments. MB-Lab and blender take a lot longer to learn but end up way faster and more powerful in the long run.
>current year
>still using Maya
How does it feel to have an interface worse than open source software and an industry leading lack of NPR tools?

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it's cheating only if people don't like the final result

in the old days artist use those wooden dolls for poses ofc its not cheating

Thank you for explaining, user.