Graphics Arts are creative visual renditions of what an artist ideates in his/her mind and wants to communicate to the beholder.

Cavemen used the tools at their disposal -- is it still not art? PhotoShop and other programs are merely tools. The artist is the one who expresses his/her ideas using whatever tools are at hand.

Tracing, copying, cloning are methods of getting the picture just the way the artist wants it to be. Even the Art Masters of olden times used to draft out a sketch using other peoples works, before actually deciding upon the finished unique product. It was called a Study.

- Mili -

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Mili De Brown
www.micaminito.com