I know the piece was made from scratch, this is what tracing is for.

If you repeat the words written on some book typing it letter for letter, it's the same energy. Would you really say you made the whole content on your own? Just because you copied it manually?

I dont disagree with you on making the art, what I do disagree and find disgusting is the lack of transparency when it comes to tracing.

How do find content like this be valuable if everyone started pumping out traced content?