i don’t think any of you is taking all the points, you are just following what the other people say
first of all if it were a trace all the lines would match perfect, i want to think he used it as a reference to make his anthro
second, you are accusating him from selling it as a trace even if it is a draw made out from a reference, guess what, almost 70% of the pony art came from this kind of stuff and some bronies even sell it as their work even if they used a reference to make that pose (commisions, bags, dakis, mousepads, shirts, etc).
third, i know TM almost always uses the same poses for his comics, but i have seen him drawing and he actually redo his sketches (another thing to point out, he uses sketchs he does offline to do his anthros and he even changes somethings because he didn’t like how it look in the sketch or he though of a better pose)
fourth, i know this place had problems with TM in the past, im guessing thats why you are always trying to find more stuff to attack him, which if you ask me its kinda lame
and fifth, you are saying aswell he used traces before too, im going to tell you something, a lot of the pony images that have been done were draw before, mostly the same pose, you cant expect to draw something and expect its fully original and no one ever tried to draw it before, of course there are exceptions, but from time to time this exceptions have become less and less
it sounds like im defending TM alot but its mostly because no one is taking all the points to take a veredict, as i said before, most of you are only following the crowd, this fandom is extreamly easy to trigger its almost funny how the show this fandom follows is about “love and toleration” and it rarely shows any, not saying all the time bronies are completely violent, i’ve seen how you end arguments peacefully, this is how drama works, it goes by not saying the true and exagerating the lies (come on guys, you and i know almost all the drama going on in this fandom is just an exageration of the facts, like what happened to ilovekimposiblealot)