Oh come ooon! Louis' face is TERRIBLE! And my AAing is way off. Surprisingly the dolls face took me a lot more than anything else.

But thanks all. <3

'Hahaha. If you bought that, you're totally gay!'

LMFAO.

Great piece, greater description. XD

iSTVAN, that's crazy, does that mean I have to mention Tim Burton in my NBC pieces, oh and not to mention tonnes of other movie credits for my other work? Besides, Lucas said 'As I'm sure we all here are aware, this is Jack Skellington and Zero from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Perfect movie, love it to death.' therefore it's not an issue. How strange to nitpick like that, dude, seriously.

Lucas, you know how I feel about this totem. :D <3

I don't think anything in my post explaining the answer to your question was indicative of me being 'riled up'. I even put a smiley at the end of it. Dollers will be dollers I guess. *shrug*

Thanks all for the comments. \m/ I do this with large paintings as well, for instance on my dev art account you can see three large canvas' of Jack from the Shining, Terminator and Gollum. I used a projector to get the basic outline of their faces using a brown texta over tissue paper and then used the ref pics to paint them with oil sticks. This is the same thing with pixel art.

No, Blue, I don't think this is 'tracing' an image, just getting the basic proportions for an image you're recreating in another medium. I never actually traced the entire thing bit by bit to get a fully finished creation. I never claimed I took the photo, it's an official movie photo, that I am just recreating in another medium - and it still takes skill/talent or what have you. Was Andy Warhol shot down for his Marilyn Monroe prints? He 'traced' a professional, well-known picture of Marilyn to make them and then mass produced them. I am making pop art here, just like he is. No biggie. ^_^ And anyway, my Chucky STILL doesn't look 100 percent like the Chucky picture (only ones with keen eyes can see this because I came pretty damn close XD), plus I added in my own parts (read the hot tip in step 5) and therefore I can call it my re-creation of Chucky. So yeah, I think it is ethical because I haven't 'snagged' the photo and traced over it at all - I got the basic proportions by drawing shapes over the picture and then using the same picture to observe the detail and draw it on myself. You still need sharp observational skills. ;)