Friends with benefits

I should have added in ysreetdays post that I believe in using reference material to be accurate about a particular subject. If you want to have a proper representation of say a T-Rex then it would be a good idea to look at one. But I wouldn’t suggest copying it. I would look at it to make sure I’m getting all the proportions correct and try drawing it at a different angle then what I’m seeing in the reference. I would say I usually try to draw from my imagination for most all of my art but sometimes an artist needs to be accurate about how something looks a style of car or an actor or a breed of dog etc. I don’t like to just copy because I feel like a copy machine could do a much better job why go through all the work. But of course you can always make an argument for when using images directly to build a composition can work to. Thanks James for all the great posts your an incredible inspiration!