illustration seen here ?
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I disagree Jimbo. Often the copycat is able to bypass the discovery and development stage and just start working on copying what is already established, so zero investment there, but then its often true that the copycat will, by virtue of not having the long and intimate relationship with the process, be more free to make arbritrary improvements that to the originator would not have felt like they were within the rules of the style.
Even the piece in this thread (in the top half where it works) seems to be more rounded, more fruity, more rich and syrupy then Alex Trochut's work.
And of course, being copy cats, once the style goes out of fashion they simply get to work copying the next one that emerges and exploiting it in the same way.
So I think ultimately it is the less ideologically precious copyist who wins and the 'creator' / 'artist' who is left to wrestle with feelings of betrayal and rage.