>>245599
>>245698
>>245734
First off, just to sanity check it myself, no amount of me stretching the image makes things line up right. Drag it to the head, drag it to the boob, drag it to the arm, drag it to the left side to line up the back, drag it to the buttcrack. You can get a rough starting line up on 1 feature with some warping, then from there start playing with it further and any amount of what you do you quickly will see it can't work with multiple lines at once. You'd need to separate the top and bottom half at least, if not multiple more iterations of cutting it up, because proportions are so off in the X and Y axis. As in, she's both taller and wider at vastly different proportions in different areas. There is no one warp fix here that makes it work. So performing a trace like this would be a Frankenstein piece by piece deal if one really wanted to do it.
Second, as others mentioned, the bigger girls get the less poses there are to use. Sitting at this size, like what, forward, 3/4 front, side, 3/4 back, back. So we have a 3/4 back pose - they absolutely will all look more or less the same when at a same-ish, very large size.
Third, think about who you're accusing. Our entire scene has about 5 artists who regularly draw comic pages, maybe 10 tops who ever has historically. Alice is one of those 5 few who operate at a production speed and release schedule of multiple comic pages a week. As others have said, for a talented artist, it takes longer to trace than to draw something fresh. Like, how long would it take to flip through the trace bank and find that perfect pose for the next scene? Just why, if you can draw it yourself anyways?
And lastly, Alice's long term standing is another huge reason why the accusation can be shot down before even checking into it. 5 years of drawing and you think they wouldn't have been caught far earlier? Look at your own history and explanation for tracing, you traced earlier on and eventually stopped? So you think an incredibly recent page has a trace in it but the prior 5 years of their work just didn't? Like, Alice just suddenly forgot how to draw and needed to trace BWS all of a sudden? Use your brain.
>>245740
Everyone would prob be nicer to them if they weren't so confidently wrong. Tracing is a HUGE accusation to make, you had better be right when you make it. And the snippy follow-ups with nothing more to add but "BUT I'M RIIIIGHT" isn't helping their case either. Or admitting they've traced themselves, so of-course they'd know a tracer when they see one! It's seriously pathetic.
>>245750
Nope, buttcrack isn't even close. I resized and contorted the BWS piece to match as closely as possible, traced the SDC buttcrack line with a bright red brush to make it stand out. Layered the BWS transparently and you can see for yourself the brown line in Salt's piece vs. SDC's piece in red. Look at these 2 shots, I move it around to try to match more and somewhere else the line is way off now. It's even wavy, what manipulation can we do to make even this single butt-crack line work out? And then take note of the rest of the SDC girl, it's not just her head different in size. Arm, belly, everything is way out of scale compared to just this buttcrack's lining when matched. Why? Because of the slope the SDC piece has, the girl is leaning forward at the upper body only, not the butt, ever so slightly completely skewing the angle and making the scale of none of the lines matchable. This is all to say, this is 1000% not a trace.