Joey is NOT a dog! Please stop describing him as a “blonde puppy” and such.
Well, he’s definitely not a blonde puppy.
But yeah, agreed
There is a huge difference between taking an image and coping it/tracing it and using it as reference.
References are usually a helpful way for you to get an understand of how a certain thing looks. If you take a image and do studies of the basic movements of shapes and forms, then you are using a reference correctly.
If you are taking an image and trying to duplicate it exactly, you are not using a reference properly.
I wish people would realize this before putting down people who use references and saying “Oh. I thought your art was really good, but then I heard you used references.”
People who usually claim references are the ones who trace and copy, so refrence using has become a tabu when it really isn’t. It’s just most people who use references are doing it wrong.
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*copying
and +all the numbers
