I don't think Harry is the one that is tracing, I do alot. He just has his opinion of it and perhaps trying to make me feel a bit better about the fact that I do.

You have your opinion about it, and that's fine, but I have mine too and it differs from yours. There's a lot of artists who wouldn't create if they had to stop tracing. There is no copyright issues for me because I use my own photographs or drawings and the rare times I've seen a photograph that moved me to create, I asked permission first....that's only been twice.

You could say that using bitmaps for texture is cheating too since the texture is not being created by hand. We could really thin out the creative pool if both tracing and use of bitmaps were banned, couldn't we?