Genuinely surprised how many artists are being so reactive and taking this thread so badly without bothering to read or understand the msg that (imo) boils to: copying masters' works is understandable but remember to treat your peers' works with respect and honor the intentions of their works
thinking about the popularity of so many "redraw trends" and plagiarism of compositions by all sorts of artists (it comes up often for gposing but 2D artists do it too). i have to sum up my discomfort with it as follows: it's artists treating other artists the same way A/I treats art as data