I didn't know anyone involved in this (I'm not on FA), however, I was personally getting pretty frustrated with the OP misrepresenting what was being said.
I also did a break down of why I consider that to not be as conclusive as you do - http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/542457.html?thread=20429561#t20429561 You don't have to agree, but it might help to see what I'm looking at when I say that it's not lining up. (Not to mention the one posted above had been further distorted.) The first one is the green dog overlay.
The other thing is that I literally cannot think of a reason why anyone would trace like that. The artist knows enough to have the landmarks, so she knows the torso so it's not an anatomy crutch, they're different enough that it doesn't seem like it would be tracing due to lack of self-confidence, and it would take longer to trace and alter it that much in a simple rather than to just draw it from scratch so it's not due to laziness/time-constraints. If you have insight into why this would happen, please let me know, but for me it doesn't hold water technically or psychologically. It doesn't make sense.
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I also did a break down of why I consider that to not be as conclusive as you do - http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/542457.html?thread=20429561#t20429561 You don't have to agree, but it might help to see what I'm looking at when I say that it's not lining up. (Not to mention the one posted above had been further distorted.) The first one is the green dog overlay.
The other thing is that I literally cannot think of a reason why anyone would trace like that. The artist knows enough to have the landmarks, so she knows the torso so it's not an anatomy crutch, they're different enough that it doesn't seem like it would be tracing due to lack of self-confidence, and it would take longer to trace and alter it that much in a simple rather than to just draw it from scratch so it's not due to laziness/time-constraints. If you have insight into why this would happen, please let me know, but for me it doesn't hold water technically or psychologically. It doesn't make sense.