/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6506879
>What do you do everyday?
Me personally?
Lately I just find stuff on my phone and copy it to my sketchbook. Before that I was trying to construct humans, but being quite beg myself I was hitting a wall on progress.
My best received work has been sketches of shit in actually looking at, but often I'm at the same places every day and nothing I see is grabbing me.
Pic is the best example. Left is a quick sketch I had less than a half hour to do from life, right is copied over a longer time later that day or the next. (I was going for a primarch Leman Russ vibe if you're familiar with Warhammer.)
Last week I was very tired and busy and drew 5 female athletes from a photo, one per day just to get something done. (See >>6504555)

Left is from life, quick pencil sketch under time pressure to finish before customer finishes.
Right is from photo reference. I fucked up and overworked the strands of hair covering the left eye, but I feel I learned something and have confidence for future photo copying work (even though I hate it.)

In fact, copying a photo feels like cheating. To me it feels little different than if I had simply traced the photo, but most people here (and the few artists I've met IRL) think copying reference good, but tracing bad. Anyway, it's fast better than I could do from construction/imagination, and it really feels like cheating.