All you need to do is take one quick look in the art thread and you can tell that copy/pasted textures are a big deal. The general idea is that textures that came from source images are worth less than hand drawn textures.

My opinion is that making c/p textures is just as hard as creating art with a tablet or a pencil. It's not easy to morph images of cars or bikes into a good image or a robot or something like that. It is understandable that some things would be a little easier to create because the artist doesn't have to worry about the texturing or lighting and whatnot, but most of this is situational.

What are your opinions on this? Should c/p textures be less valuable because "less effort" was put into them?