/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3416552
God will know.
No but seriously, if you have any real goal of getting great color knowledge, this sort of stuff seems pretty irreplaceable. You get much more out of going out and trying to make sense of natural lighting, with things moving, versus trying to copy the pixels of a photograph you got off google, that is entirely unable to capture naturalistic lighting. (see #3) https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human-eye.htm
You're free to do whatever but ultimately you're just cheating yourself out of gains. Even if you aren't aiming to be a good colorist, you've got crazy dudes like theo prins who place a lot of value in simply going out and observing the world.