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Pig Iran said:
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Grimm said:
a lot of artists swipe or "homage." it's actually pretty common.



Not really



yes, really.

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-they are not supposed to.



there's a lot of things that people aren't supposed to do. yet they still happen.

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If they give credit it is an homage. if they don't it's a swipe which is wrong.



that's well documented. it still happens all the time.

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Any artist could tell you that if they copy photos it isn't art-it's copying which any decent artist can do. Used in conjunction with a light-box it would only take 1 minute to lay in the basic form of the copied figure.



and Alex Ross, Tim Bradstreet, and many others have all used this technique.

I'm not arguing the definition of the term. I'm just saying it's a lot more frequent than most people realize.

for example: Most of the covers of John Cassaday's Captain America run are swiped from WW2 patriotic art posters. did he give credit for them? He's admitted to it interviews, but if you didn't read those interviews, there's nothing else on the books giving credit for that.

It happens a lot in the comics field, and has for some time. Bob Kane's been a prominent example of Golden Age swiping, but another one is Hawkman artist Sheldon Moldoff, who used to swipe a good bit from Flash Gordon artist, Alex Raymond.

it's nothing new in the field.