For everyone following the Drawponies story, we now have a response from the man himself. In his newly published journal entry, he goes into detail on the act of tracing things, and in some cases listing these long side his original art at conventions for sale. He also talks about his moderation team for those worrying about the comment deletions.
For the future, he plans on no longer tracing anything, and simply relying on his personal skills. Anything at all that was traced will no longer be used. The tracing was simply a way to make things go faster apparently, which is probably why we don't see a whole lot of 1-1 comparisons.
For the full apology, head on over to his page here.
