Wasn't necessarily traced - just copied the pose? I could closely duplicate an image without tracing it. And they are drawn as 2 very different looking characters with different outfits and art styles. Still takes artistic skill - just like plenty of artists work from photos of people posing for them.
On scaling and overlaying them quite a few bits don't match exactly - making me think it was copied by hand not traced - or at least they changed some bits themselves. I wouldn't tag it tracing myself unless they said it was.
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