AP Art-- reference pictures, how similar can it be before it's considered copying?

chisquared
Fri, 11 May 2007 06:02:51 +0000

Hi,
I just finished packing up my AP Art portfolio. I used a reference picture (digital photography) from another artist and I asked for his permission. It looks similar. It is a cityscape picture. However, mine is in a different medium and I moved around the towers, added and subtracted lighting…

How similar is TOO similar?

I know people who have gotten 5s and turned in artwork based on Gucci ads and famous photographs of Angelina Jolie.

I’m worried, but most assure me that I have nothing to be worried about! I haven’t told my art teacher because she only allows us to work off reference pictures from people we have met face to face…

I’m scared.