>watch andunny jodes dudorials on gubrode >realize that

>>2852142
You can do that but then you'll eventually get called out for being a hack who can't draw anything that's not completely from reference

>>2852142
because drawing from imagination is fun too, and doing one helps do the other, so there's no reason to only do 100% references all the time.

>>2852158
>You can do that but then you'll eventually get called out

But why does that matter? isn't the final result the most important thing?

Suppose i do some cool imaginative artwork and i used a fuckton of references, why would how i did it even matter?

Is it not the quality of the artwork that determines the skill of the artist?

>>2852180
/thread

>>2852201
Ic is obsessed with work without reference as are other online artist communities. Clients and normie audiences don't give two shits, so it's up to you really. You could work with a ton of references all the time like Ruan Jia does, he said recently that without references his work would look like cave paintings.
Could always use whatever you can to gain work and audiences, and then work on your imaginative skills in your own time and slowly use them more in your other work.