That's what it looks like to me, too. In fact, I'm wondering if the 'artist' copied his work, or just edited an image of Taka's. It's not uncommon for art thieves to throw their own signature onto someone else's work via photoshop.
Wow, what a copycat. What I wonder now is, do we add a taka_tony tag too, because it's an obvious copy of his work? And do we need to parent this to either post #101472 or post #140119?
Haha, all of Taka Tony's work looks alike. Anyway, I agree. A lot of artists do copying or tracing to practice and to learn how artist X does Y. Of course, those with the slightest inkling of moral fiber don't then go on to claim the art as their own.
memegui said: I'm pretty sure you don't learn to draw by tracing another picture.
They really do. It's the equivalent of musicians playing covers when they want to find out what makes a song tick. If they don't try to figure out the chords themselves but instead look it up on the internet or some music book, that's kind of the equivalent of tracing. Of course, when an act then records/performs a song as though it were their own, that's the equivalent of what this jackass did.
