Talk:Original Character Guidelines/@comment-32518419-20191228003050/@comment-26958589-20191228003737

base art has a history of being made by tracing over others art (that other is often japanese and so doesnt know this is happening and, even if they did, often have no way to protest it) without permission, which is not only copyright infringement but something most of us, as artists, are against.

there are some bases made completely originally and i sorta wish we could allow those, but it muddies waters : ( anyone can claim a base is original, even if it isnt, so itd be very difficult for us to check.

tldr: we want to foster a positive, creative environment and find that base art often works against that, not because of who is using it but because of who made it. this isnt to say every person making base art is bad (i think the opposite!), just that we wouldnt be able to check.