Oops. I did search to see if this topic had already been convered. I did. But I see that this subject has
kind of been covered on
this thread. (But it's not an identical subject.)
I gather from this other thread that tracing from photographs is a heated topic. I hope I'm not opening some big can or worms here. Maybe it would be better if this thread was moved to another section of this message board? I'm not sure how this works!
I guess part of the reason I started this thread is to find out how common tracing is, if many artists now consider the traditional skill of drawing to be not that "important".