Hi everyone.
First of all, I need to say I NEVER trace photos or other people's works. That's too much.
Second: all the cases is not intended to pass for original work. It's strange to think that if you find something on the internet you can steal it, pass it as your own and nobody ever find original one.
I'm still learning, and sometimes when I like character, overall style, composition etc I want to know why I liked it. So maybe there is where the problem starts - I start to copy (or imitate) it to understand what's so good in it. In the end it's more like a redraw, or a 'tribute'.
My thoughts was that draw tributes means to express my love to the artist and to learn from him. Yes, mistake was in not giving a proper credit, and now I understand.
My biggest mistake was to don't have an ability to understand that it doesn't clear about originality of the pieces, about tributing, to think that is something obvious.
And I'm really sorry for that. If I'd knew earlier how to describe it when uploading, that will never happened. But back in that days (3 years ago) I didn't know how to do it and I until that time I do not think about it.
It maybe look like stealing ideas etc (especially when you compiling pictures with it's original sourceinspiration source
eference shot without giving a chance to see original description)