@jaspycat: Guys I feel like I’m going insane, it’s fine if you don’t want to do artfight but the missinfo is crazy You are allowed to refrence photos or 3D models you make just not trace them 1 for 1! I made a handy guide on what the tracing they are talking about means 🙂 I think people are really misunderstanding what the artfight team means! This isn’t a new rule either, they just clarified it further!!! As far as the sharing what you’ve drawn on socials outside of the main account the only way this will be enforced is if the person you are drawing for specifically states that they don’t want it shared and you share it so they report you! The team is not going to go one by one by one to every single artist to every page to make sure you aren’t uploading without permission and it’s a little insane to think otherwise. They have put that rule in place because some people explicitly don’t like it and people don’t listen to their permissions If there is something somewhere contradicting what I’ve said please show it to me explicitly genuinely. EDIT: Also the artfight team is revisiting the tracing 3D models rule! They are trying to listen to the community :> use your resources responsibly #artfight #art #artreference

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rainbirdarts
Colby Jack 🧀✝️ (comms open) :
Reposting, because too many confuse tracing and referencing 😅 Might just be a tiktok art community thing though
2026-05-14 01:43:56
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snailienzart
🐌🩵👾Snell || COMMS OPEN🩷✨🛸 :
no accprding tp the riles the one at the bottom is also not allowed. i will be ignoring that though because it’s a stupid rule
2026-05-15 04:58:57
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jaspycat
Theodore :
If you are worried ask yourself is this transformative media? Like y’all remember the really popular draw this in your style trend where you’d draw a screenshot from a show in your style? A lot of artists sketched over the screenshots to get the basic placement of things and then transformed them into their own unique pieces of art! The tracing artfight is talking about is like when someone on DA would take an anime screenshot and draw over it 1 to 1 to make a new base
2026-05-14 01:46:25
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abyssalowls
Owl [Comms open!] :
this is literally what I have been wanting to say but I havent known how to say it, thank you so much h for making it so much simpler for people to actually understand what the rule entails. I have seen people straight up say they are going to not join artfight over this when im pretty sure it was very clear that its geuninutely just a rule against straight up tracing your references??? your still allowed to use the photo bashing and 3d models and whatever you maybe using, but you cant straight up trace it, and several of the people talking against this rule were straight up just... tracing the models... im still gonna be participating in artfight but its a little dissapointimg that people are straight up or thinking of quiting due to a rule thats pretty easy to actually understand and has been around forever
2026-05-14 03:42:11
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sadiekillernosuspects
𝑆𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 :
is tracing blank poses okay? like I kinda just loosely trace the blank pose and then make adjustments to the pose depending on what I'm going for and then add all my details and stuff as I go
2026-05-14 04:17:53
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stirring.circle
Кате :
I don't trace usually, but sometimes I do and let's be for real, I can do whatever I want and nobody actually owns anything, should I credit the owner if I watch it at this point?
2026-05-14 10:41:17
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tocksclock
Tock☆ :
I think by this point the mod team would have benefitted more by having a graphic like this alongside the tracing rules 😭 The biggest issue with this debate over the new rules overall I think is definitely the fact that what people consider tracing and referencing varies greatly; I've seen several photos like this and lots of people still consider the bottom one, or shape/color-blocking as tracing 😭
2026-05-15 15:12:26
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digitaldogdante
Dante the PugAtolian (18+) :
im mad I cant use pictures I took myself for background references. I can NOT eyeball ts 😭
2026-05-14 01:51:59
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