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Swiping is when an artist copies (not traces) a pose, a background, a panel or sometimes even an entire page.
Keith Giffen was accused of this and examples were shown how he was using panel compositions that Jose Munoz had drawn and publishing it in DC Comics. He was excoriated in a Comics Journal article and apologized. But his style from there took off in a very new direction. Suggesting that the swiping was part of his creative process.
As an artist myself, I know that it is necessary to study other artists in order to learn new things and improve. So when is it appropriate to swipe? Is it ok to swiped if it's only a small component of the drawing? Like a an arm, a face, a tree? Or is it appropriate to swipe and call it an "homage"? Or maybe it's appropriate to swipe if the artist is swiping for a wide variety of sources so much so that it becomes his own style?
Where is the line for you? Do you even care about these sorts of things? Or do you just read the comic and never wonder about the provenance of the images?
Keith Giffen was accused of this and examples were shown how he was using panel compositions that Jose Munoz had drawn and publishing it in DC Comics. He was excoriated in a Comics Journal article and apologized. But his style from there took off in a very new direction. Suggesting that the swiping was part of his creative process.
As an artist myself, I know that it is necessary to study other artists in order to learn new things and improve. So when is it appropriate to swipe? Is it ok to swiped if it's only a small component of the drawing? Like a an arm, a face, a tree? Or is it appropriate to swipe and call it an "homage"? Or maybe it's appropriate to swipe if the artist is swiping for a wide variety of sources so much so that it becomes his own style?
Where is the line for you? Do you even care about these sorts of things? Or do you just read the comic and never wonder about the provenance of the images?
