I flipped off at an unfounded accusation, and some friends told me that I shouldn't be like that. But it made me learn my lesson, and I'm thankful for that.

Although I'll still favorite traced bases and whatsoever, I'm only going to trace/reference IF the original artist allows/requests this. That is, if I trace anything, it'll be mostly my own works (even if they're MS Paint sketches that I'll never show to general public because they were done to make bases), or stock images people allowed to do so.

I'd also recommend you to do so, as I discovered that's funnier that way, with all the Paintbrush scribbling, cleaning up and whatsoever. Heck, I might even post a tutorial, if you ask! (Well, MIGHT. Not sure if I have the patience to do so.)

I already have two bases in the waiting, as I was planning to do a TTGL-related kisekae, but reminded myself that it wouldn't really work at WinXP.

EDIT: Also, if you're still going to trace a base from an anime image, at least take off the clothes and clean up the lines. nobody likes bases with clothes and/or those uncleaned pencil lines that makes the base look like they're scratching the screen with their lines.