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I feel that I rely too much on reference photos and real life models for my art work. Most of my friends tell me that working with reference photos are important, and I believe that they are correct, but I can't seem to draw anything without looking up a reference picture to draw from. All of my friends seem to be able to draw anything they want without using references photos. Should I stray away from relying so heavily on these pictures, or is everything okay?
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Sounds like you're copying reference instead of learning from it. Copying something without attempting to understand it is where the problem most likely stems from. Here's a math comparison.
you see 2+2 =4. So you write that down over and over. You don't know WHY 2+2=4 so when you have to do 3+2, you're stumped. But if you know that + means that two things are put together to create a greater sum, and then three things and two things would make five together, then when you come up again 7+3 or anything else, you will always have an answer.
Learn from your reference. Don't just copy it. Another thing you can do is look at ref and do something different. Say you look at the first hand, instead of drawing that, have it hold a cup. Look at the way the fingers are bending-try to look at that and extrapolate how the fingers would bend around a cup. Then look at a hand holding a cup. Fix the mistakes. You've learned something.
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