>>1853847>>1853865Sure, artists can do it. I am willing to deal with the negative aspect of a watermark for their sake, considering they spent years learning how to do it. I will then just take it to IMT and ask for it to be removed. However, when you get in the world of vector tracing, you've entered a gray area. You are heavily basing your image on that of an image drawn by someone else. You are tracing all edges of the image, and removing extra features to create a basic minimalist version. It is fairly easy to do and does not take much time at all.
Let's take this persons offer up for instance
>>1853849. I made this vector by tracing an original image done by Deneb (Noble324). I removed many if its original features, and created a minimalist version. There is no other version of this image anywhere, as it was originally made by me. However, even if it took 4 hours to do, I cannot justify adding a watermark. Even if it took 100 hours, I could not justify it. The image is so heavily based on someone else's work that it would feel inappropriate adding some watermark that signifies that I made it. I would much rather keep it clean, state its an interpretation by me in the comment, and reference the original artist and the original image instead.
The issue that I have with this is most likely due to me starting out vectoring full images, where I am actually vectoring the entire image and not removing any of its original qualities as best as I can. This means that the image will essentially look the same, but in much greater detail. It would be inappropriate for me to use a watermark in that regard, and I thus refuse to use it in a minimalist vector as well.
Whatever, the watermark part was only a piece of the argument. The low quality exports and the refusal to export transparent versions bother me more than that.
