No one would trace exactly the work of another without making a few obvious changes, especially if you were trying to present your stuff as original art work.
It is all a question of degree.Artists have been stealing from each other since the beginning of time,no one is an island unto himself.We are all influenced by what has gone before us,some work is just a little more obviously copied than others.Why don't we all just admit that we do it and move on.
