Yeah, who are these people that are making accusations of tracing? What is the basis of such claims?
There is always jerks who will try to bring other people down to make themselves feel better. When I was a child, I have been asked a couple of times if traced. In high school, two people proclaimed they were better than me even when I was minding my own damn business. For all that puffery about "real art" and selling art for $200, both guys proved to be full of shit since they had nothing to show for it. I even had a classmate in my Senior English class who said I had too much time on my hands...and this coming from a guy I see playing basketball with his buddies after class and occasionally wants to see my assignment so he can leech off my work.